How The Eggs Got Eaten in Record Time

This was the fastest use-up-the-Easter-eggs-year ever!

My recipe is as follows:

Ingredients:

• 1 Husband
• 1 Son
• 1 digital camera
• 3-4 Easter eggs
• Mayonnaise
• Grey Poupon mustard
• Salt
• Sliced frozen bagels
• Buttery spread of your choice

Instructions:

1. Neglect to give Husband any breakfast.
2. Ply Son with TV until he is close to stupefied.
3. Take photos of eggs with digital camera.



4. When Husband asks Son if he can eat the eggs, reassure Son you have photos.
5. Look very busy for a few minutes while Husband prepares egg salad with mayo, mustard, salt.
6. Continue to look very busy as Husband toasts bagel slices. When he asks you if you want your buttered, say yes.
7. Appear in time to eat lovingly prepared breakfast and give thanks for your family.

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Quiet Is Good But...

I miss DuckyBoy. He's at his grandparents since last night, we get him tomorrow. We had a great time with them on Easter, Husband made an awesome scallops-with-cauliflower-puree appetizer and also herb-cruster lamb. He's channeling Gordon Ramsay, how sexy is that!

Anyway. Usually when we're kid-free I can relax and let loose. This time I feel more, well, uptight. Wanted him to stay at Grandma's so I could work today, that's not exactly a recipe for footloose and fancy-free.

We did go out tonight and hit 2 Happy Hour specials PLUS a movie- woohoo!

I do like the quiet. But I miss my little guy.

Fevers and Easter Eggs

I miss my blog! Lots going on, and now DuckyBoy is sick. Not with scarlet fever I don't think, like finslippy's son, but sick enough that he could only take a few sips of water today, and that couldn't be too cold or it came right back up. His fever was over 103.5 this morning, but slowly came down all afternoon. I just hope it doesn't spike again in the middle of the night tonight!

This afternoon he finally was able to drink some rice milk and eat 6, yes, literally just 6, French fries. So much for the big family weekend! We were supposed to go to Grandma's today but no chance. They'll probably come in to see us tomorrow anyway.

DuckyBoy's not sure he wants to hunt for Easter eggs tomorrow, so I told him the EB would know he's sick and probably leave him just a few eggs, and come back next week. Poor guy.

On a related note, I'm less than impressed with 2 of the egg-coloring products out there and they're both the same company: Dudley's. We tried the "Speckled eggs" kit and while the gel pouches and little sponge brushes were OK, last year anyway (Note to self: Quit trying to save leftover egg-coloring products for the next year...), the little stickers were impossible to get off the backing. They were clear so we could hardly see them, tiny, and just plain not useable.

Also tried the stencil/stamp kit. Also leftover from last year, but since you have to activate the paint pads with water anyway I don't think that was the problem. Too wet or too dry, that was the problem. At least I now have cute bunny stamps to use with regular stamp pads, plus 2 tiny paintbrushes (since I had 2 kits), but it didn't do anything for our eggs.

Luckily I had the old standby, plain old food coloring, in the house. DB may not have been feeling so good yesterday, come to think of it, but at any rate he didn't seem to really mind. Handled the disappointment of the kits pretty well and happily chose the colors for the solid eggs.

Happy Easter!