"What is the real purpose behind the tooth fairy, the Easter bunny, and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith, and imagination; each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. -Chuck Palahniuk
Oh my goodness, it is March already? Easter is just around the corner. It comes early this year, so in anticipation of Easter, I enlisted my grandkids to help me make an egg tree. My inspiration came from an egg tree that was a featured news story which was about Easter traditions. It seems the Kraft family from Saalfeld, Germany have been decorating this tree with Easter eggs for 40 years.
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| Volker Kraft hanging his eggs |
I cannot image stringing all those eggs, and hanging them, but isn't it beautiful? I wonder how they get them down without tangling all the strings. My tree did not have nearly that many eggs. I only had 96, and it was sure a pain to string them...well, I actually used fishing line. I was sure glad I only had 96 eggs and not 9200. The twins loved decorating our Easter tree. This is my first year to do an Easter tree. Time will tell if it becomes a tradition...besides, I have to figure out how to store the eggs without tangling the fishing line.
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| Tate...don't you love the mittens? |
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| Sawyer...and the orange gloves? |
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| All done. The tree is beautiful... |
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| now we can play! |
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| whoops...photo time with PawPaw... |
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| Now with Mimi |
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| Here's the tree. At least we did not have to have a ladder to string our eggs. |
After we decorated the tree, we had to go to the park for a celebration of sorts...called playing.
It was an all round wonderful day. Be Blessed.
