Easter 2012

For Easter I was going to put a picture of an Easter Basket out on facebook; the kind the Easter Bunny left when I was a kid. There was a problem with that...there was nothing close in all the pictures I found on Google. We didn't get movies or toys, we got eggs and candy. Generally we each got a large coconut creme egg that mom bought from school or a hollow chocolate bunny. There were the eggs we colored the night before that usually became egg salad within a day or two. And of course there were jelly beans. I'm not talking about the designer jelly beans that became so popular during the Reagan administration; I'm talking the cheapest jellybeans a mom on a budget could buy. There were some small chocolate or coconut eggs along with some speckled malted milk ball eggs that were thrown in to round things out. These were all lovingly placed in baskets made with straw or colored plastic strips that were padded on the bottom with crumpled newspaper that was then covered with pink, green or yellow cellophane straw. As kids we were thrilled to get these baskets but most kids today would find them lacking.  


And this I posted on facebook yesterday. I'm including it here for those of you who don't do the whole social media thing.
When I was a kid Easter was the one holiday we could count on my father being home for the day. I guess from about the time I was 7 or 8 we would go to church and then we would take a series of buses and trolleys and to go visit my Great-aunt Katie. She was a nun and was stationed at in parish in No. Philadelphia. The convent she lived in was a series of 3 or 4 connected rowhouses that had a connected and enclosed front porch. My mother would dress us all in our new clothes and the nuns stationed with Aunt Katie all made a fuss. We would go to the music room and hit the piano keys or take one of the rockers on that front porch and rock it till it moved from one end of that highly waxed floor to the other. When we left the convent we went out to dinner and then rushed home to get to our Easter baskets.
I hope all of you have happy memories to look back on this weekend.


One other thing and I'm gone...   Today is April 7th. It would have been my parent's 65th wedding anniversary. My dad has been gone since 1976 and my mom passed away in 1993. They gave me a some wonderful gifts. The best gifts being Eileen, Skipper and Karen. I love my parents and think of them every day. Every year for Easter and Mother's Day my father bought my mother an orchid corsage. If things work as I hope they do you'll see a picture of one with this post.  

HAPPY EASTER ALL!!!!!!!!!!!