Every year the children’s school has an Easter bonnet parade. I have done my best to ignore and generally wiggle out of any need to participate in this activity in the two years they’ve attended school there. Last year I gave them dinosaur baseball hats to wear as they were walking out to the school bus. My daughter informed me earlier in the week that that wasn’t quite good enough for this year.
So, I went out on Tuesday and bought two plain straw hats to decorate, and yesterday I gathered supplies – Easter grass, plastic eggs, and small stuffed animals (fyi, that’s the bunny from the classic book GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU). I was fairly pleased with the assortment, actually. When they got home from school, I told them that we could decorate their Easter bonnets anytime.
My daughter looked at me in surprise. “But I already made a crown at school today!” She looked at the hat and the items I’d assembled and insisted she’d rather wear the crown she made. My son picked out what he wanted to put on the hat – and then left me to it.
And guess who got to decorate their hard boiled eggs for the egg races as well? I stuck temporary dinosaur tattoos to the shells, wrote their names on them, and called it good.
It’s not as if they did a lot at school this week. From what I can tell they spent plenty of time coloring pictures of Easter eggs, so I’m not sure why they didn’t ALL just make crowns at school and leave me out of it. They want them to bring eggs for egg races? Call it a cookery class and have at it!
It’s not as if I don’t have enough to do. My family will be getting out of Cairo for a few days and spending the weekend in Ain Suhkna, on the Red Sea and I have to organize and pack! Author Terry Odell will be blogging with me over the weekend and we’ll be discussing how we can all do our part to keep the planet healthy: recycling. So please stop by and share your own tips with us.
And have a Happy Easter!
EXCELLENT hat! I believe I’m jealous. Doesn’t it just fry your hair when you do all that work and then the kid says “oh, nevermind?”
by anny cook April 9th, 2009 at 9:47 amMy boy wore this hat and looked extremely cute. My daughter wasn’t so happy with her crown when she saw what others had done. But I’m all set for next year – I’ll redo this hat and have a plain one waiting, all set for decorating
by Jenyfer Matthews April 9th, 2009 at 4:36 pm