Hippity Hoppity Easter’s On Its Way

Growing up we got sugar highs from all the candy eggs we consumed on Easter Sunday.

We also suffered through the annual Easter cold snap, some folks called it blackberry winter, and we had to wear a winter coat over our Easter clothes. Looking forward to lunch of baked ham, potato salad and oh so many deviled eggs piled on my plate.

One of the highlights of Easter for children is decorating eggs with dye. Of course, your mother or you get to figure out what to do with all these boiled and dyed eggs. The children are usually only interested in the candy eggs.

Originally in the United States Pennsylvania, Dutch children would make nests in their bonnets where the bunnies would lay colored eggs. Eventually, the colored eggs were replaced with candy eggs. More fun was had at egg hunts, well, some had fun if you could beat the faster kids.

An old tradition since 1878 and President Rutherford B. Hayes administration is an Easter egg roll held on the South Lawn of the White House.. It has since become the largest event at the White House. Some 30,000 eggs are used.

Make some good memories this year.

Happy Easter Jasper County!