my easter sunday

we had a really nice barbecue in the garden, the weather was lovely 

the sun gives my nose freckles

I felt that it was time to finally wear some light colored dresses and I could leave my sailor jacket inside, a horse printed  cardigan was all I needed, spring is wonderful. But I am obsessed with berets so they will stay put for a while longer... more on the berets later

and finally, I do not want to brag but I have quite the green thumb, but for a while I was worried that this lovely hydrangea was about to die on me, but she changed her mind. Ironically enough her name is Daisy... oh, I love to name things around the house.

LOVE

our easter day

Our family tradition on easter day (except for eating a lot of good food and candy), is to paint eggs in the morning, eggs that I, after lunch hide all around the garden and then we fill our sons head with some mombojumbo that the easter bunny have laid eggs during the night and we must go find them all... he seems to think that this makes perfect sense and there is no follow up questions when the last egg he finds is filled with candy and the hunt is over.
Waring: Picture cavalcade!

but first and foremost you need to be dressed up as a witch, it is true! In our home country there is a belief that the witches flew to something called "Blåkulla", roughly translated "The Blue Hill"... well this is a very long story made short: "Kids dress up as witches and goes around asking for candy. To make the look perfect you need a kerchief on the head, a apron, and some make-up; red cheeks and painted freckles"

as we do not live in our home country, we only did the candy part in the garden... here hunting for eggs, that the strange bunny laid

triumph...

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the grand final, mother of all easter eggs

he never really had candy before, so this was like big deal, for us I guess, because he ate this piece and then he only wanted the fruit, strange kid

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a nice weekend indeed

We had a lovely Easter...

... we painted easter eggs, all mine got tiny little bows

made some marzipan chickens, a family tradition

mine got a tiny beret

watched the bumblebees getting ready for spring and summer

played

was amazed over how fast the spring came to us, over the weekend the garden almost stood in full bloom

played some more

ate a lot of home baked treats 

was out and about

and packed a bag for a long day out of town with new friends

LOVE

happy easter hunt

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, with lots and lots of good food, candy and painted eggs for breakfast! I know I will!


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