We are just getting ready to start spring break down here. The school had a big Easter Celebration planned for all the kids today, the last day before our break. Aside from collecting eggs, the kids were most excited about wearing clothes of their own choice. A day with no uniform! Hooray! They picked everything out last night!
Now, the parents responsibility in this celebration was to provide the eggs. Sounds easy enough, right? Well this freakin school cant make anything easy. They wanted nearly 20 eggs per student. 20 eggs can you believe that!?! And I dont mean plastic eggs or hard boiled eggs.
That means real eggs. In fact, 55 real eggs, that you have carefully made a tiny whole in, removed the yolk and then washed and dried, filled with confetti, painted/decorated, and then carried to school by a less than gentle child. Chloe needed to have 15 eggs--already decorated and filled with confetti. Logan and Carter each needed 20 eggs. 10 that are already decorated and filled with confetti and 10 to decorate in class. That is 55 eggs. Not only would it take us like 6 months to actually use that many eggs, but the time involved to make the hole without cracking the whole egg, then washing & drying, decorating, & all the other crap would seriously take way to much time and energy. So about 2 weeks before these eggs are "due" I asked a friend of mine who also has 3 kids at the school what she is planning on doing. To my disgust she told me that she had started saving eggs 3 weeks ago & that she was already done. Holy crap. I am so not organized.
Anyway, I guess the school has been doing this kinda crap for a long time, and more experienced people start preparing early and other people are prepared to take advantage of the rest of us that are lazy. So last week, a girl shows up in pickup truck after school, with the bed of the truck full of already decorated eggs. Hooray! I bought 30 eggs at $50 pesos per 10 eggs. Thats about $5 bucks for each 10 already decorated and ready to go eggs. Seriously, the best $15 bucks I have ever spent!
We still had to take care of the 20 plain eggs for the kids to decorate at school, but that was okay. And, I realized later that I was short 5 eggs for Chloe, but one of my good friends had extras and so generosly shared with us.
The best part about all the work with the eggs, as you can see in the pictures, is that after the egg hunt the kids just broke the confetti filled eggs--smashing them on each others heads and the ground. Oh, but they had a blast doing it!
Isn't he the cutest bunny!
Smashing one on the head.
The aftermath!
Tigger, one of our favorite eggs, that didn't get smashed.
3 comments:
You gotta do what you gotta do and the kids looked like they had alot of fun. You could of borrowed some eggs from us! We had a ton!
Looks like fun! I wouldn't have done all that work myself either. Thank goodness for enterprising people who know where to make a buck!
OH MY GOSH!!!! That kind of work makes my tummy hurt! But I am sure seeing the kids have a blast was so fun! I love the pictures of the after math, it really does look like fun smashing an egg on your head and having confetti fall all over the place! Since you are so good at it, could you please make some for my kids! :)I know, I know you'll get right on that in your free time!!! Have fun this spring break!
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