Just trying to catch up a little here, so bear with me while I take a trip back in the way back machine all the way to last week.  Sit back and relax while I spin a tale of horror and discovery, or maybe, just maybe, a little yarn of what went down for Easter 2009.

The weekend started like any other weekend in the Super Mega Household.  Basically starting around 6 AM in the morn with Princess K deciding that it was time for everybody else to get up by coming in and poking me in the eyes announcing that she was now ready to get up and watch cartoons. Or, perhaps she was just excited by the local town's annual EGGstravaganza event and the fact that this was her first year being able to hunt for eggs with the rest of the kids.

She DID have a glint in her eye that USUALLY spells trouble, but since it was so early in the morning I wasn't paying as much attention.  Woe be unto he who ignores that mischievous glint!

After getting the kids up, dressed, and fed, we headed off to the town center park and got our egg hunting faces on.  Princess K was first up in the age three group.  We got lined up with several hundred other three year olds, their parents, and their siblings all eagerly awaiting the go signal to release the destructive power of the three year old little guy hoard. 

I have never seen such a competitive group of three year old little kids in my life.  I pictured scenes from movies like Braveheart ("They can change our poopy diapers, but they will never take away our BINKEYS!"). The parents were egging (no pun intended) their kids on, telling them to push and shove the other kids in order to get the bigger pile of eggs.  As long as little Johnny got his pile of eggs, that's all that was important!  My advice to Princess K?  Have fun and try not to get trampled under the uncaring boots of her snotty nose cohorts!  We sat there listening to the count down. Five minutes to E-Time.  Four minutes to E-Time.  Three minutes to E-Time.  Two minutes to E-Time.  One minute to E-Time.  GOOOOO!  Right out of the gate, the little angel right in front of my Princess K (who actually pushed her way IN FRONT of Princess K after showing up thirty seconds before the egg hunt started) HEAD BUTTED Princess K and than ran full steam ahead to collect as many eggs as she could all while pushing and shoving any other kids that got in her way (I kid you not!). I'm certain her parents were quite pleased with her as I'm sure she got quite a haul of eggs with her evil tactics.

Princess K, of COURSE, starts bawling her little head off completely losing interest in anything to do with egg hunting.  We pack up our egg basket, hang our head in defeat and instead go over to bounce a little in Princess K's very FAVORITE thing in the entire UNIVERSE, the BOUNCEY.  This cheers her up quite a bit and besides a nasty bruise on her forehead, does fairly well the rest of the day.  The fire truck (as well as the hunky firefighters that she flirted with) and the petting zoo were also favorites that dreadful day.  The kids even decided that instead of a dog, they would MUCH rather have a pet bunny. (Ummm, NOOO!)

Super Michael's group of egg hunters were just as competitive, but he has a few years under his belt and knows how to duck and cover much better than his sister.  He has been trained in defensive egg hunting and can hold his own in these egg hunting adventures.  He has learned to move quickly and, since he's pretty small, can get into and out of situations easier than the bigger kids his age. I guess hes's just light on his feet.  So, Super Michael came out of the adventure with six eggs.

Six eggs is OK, nothing to laugh at, but compared to years past, this is about a third of his usual haul.  I believe that even the poor Easter Bunny has been hit hard by the recession because the city egg hunt usually has much more in the egg category. And now that I think of it, the bouncey was usually free as well in years past, but cost a whole two dollars PER kid this year.  Even the bouncy-bounce isn't immune to the global economic down turn, I guess.

The kids weren't too put off, however, since the Easter Bunny appeared to save most of his egg collection load for the Super Mega Household.  As usual, there were well over one hundred eggs liberally spread all over the back yard.  The Easter Bunny has learned that for the time being, this is probably a good idea since Princess K is not yet ready for more advanced hunts.  Super Michael can probably handle it, but we need to go with the least common denominator here.

After the two minute egg hunt in the morning at the Super Mega Household, we headed off to Nana and Papa's house for the whole Easter Family Get Together where the Easter Bunny laid yet ANOTHER ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN eggs!  Fortunately, there was one more kid that joined in the hunt so we didn't end up with as MANY eggs, but STILL.  Unfortunately, he is only two and absolutely NO competition for the Super Kids and their Super Speed abilities.

So, to end this story, we now have a very large pile of empty plastic eggs sitting in the middle of my office right next to all the other things we don't know what to do with.  Why is it always the case that things that we don't know what to do with end up in my office?  I guess that's a topic for ANOTHER post.