Well I don't know about you girls, but break seemed way too short to me! I had a lovely Easter break, full of sleeping in and summer job interviews. Did anyone do anything fun for their Easter break? Go any-where?
This year we celebrated Easter in Rhode Island at my mom's youngest brother's house. Each Easter we switch off between my dad's side of the family and my mom's, and this year Easter was with my mom's side of the family. I love Easter with my mom's side of the family because it is pure chaos: there are children running around, adults laughing and joking in the kitchen and a slew of fun traditions. One of my favorite traditions with the Coppa's is the peanut hunt. Peanuts are hid throughout the downstairs of the house while the younger kids are playing outside (or upstairs). Then the kids come down and search for the peanuts, once they have found all the peanuts in one room of the house the adults go back and re-hide more peanuts in that room. It takes the little ones a while to catch on, so it is very cute. Every year with the Coppa's someone hides peanuts all throughout my Auntie Liz's (the oldest of my mom's siblings) car. This year they were hid in her purse, glasses case, glove compartment, visors of above the driver and passenger seats, and all the cup holders and side pockets in the car. So far she has only called to yell at my mom for the glasses case and visors, she will be probably finding them for months.
So that is one of my family traditions, what are some of yours?
2 comments:
Wow Anna:
What a fun family tradition you have with your mother's side of the family. It sounds like so much fun to as a child be searching for peanuts, and than as an adult looking back remembering those times and now having a part in making the tradition last for the little ones.
Peanut hunt! That sounds like a great deal of fun. I can just imagine your aunt finding peanuts all over the place. Such practical joking is wonderful.
We have been having very low key holidays for a few years now and will continue to do so for a while longer...I hope. My mother-in-law is in an assisted living facility in South Windsor and spends all of the holidays with us. so the holidays are just my husband, daughter, and mother-in-law. Although we have large family gatherings, they are too far away for us to travel with an elderly person. So for now, we are grateful to have her with us and will continue to spend as much time with her as we can.
When my daughter and her first cousins were little, we used to have Easter egg hunts in our yard (weather permitting). They were a great deal of fun. And, like your aunt, we'd occasionally find Easter candy in the house or outside till the summer. Now, the 'little' kids are all in their 20's and 30's, and I guess you'd say we (the parents) are all waiting for grandchildren! Well, that's assuming that they get established and want to have children! :-)
Ask me this question again in a few years, maybe I'll have an update!
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