Patience And Eggs

Grandparents must come with an extra helping of patience.  At least this set does.  Around this house things that COULD be a potential huge mess with my kids, I avoid like crazy.  In fact those "things" sort of put dread in the pit of my stomach.  A few things on that potential huge mess list include but are not limited to: anything baked that needs icing and or sprinkles, a kid's drinking cup without a lid, any craft project that includes glue and or glitter, and for sure the dyeing of Easter eggs.  So THANK goodness my parents know this about me.  (We don't really ever speak of it.  They just know it and help me out in these little areas where I struggle.)  Maybe they just have a LOT more patience than me... maybe that is part of the aging process... you get more patience, wisdom, and gray hair with each passing year?  Whatever it is, THANK YOU Mom and Dad for stepping up, and in with your grandchildren even when there is potential for messes and disasters.  You bring the fun and ALWAYS get the smiles!  You have got this grandparent thing down.  We love you, and I appreciate YOU both.

Here we go... Dad and Mom brought the hard boiled eggs and the Color Cups egg dyeing kit this year. This handy dandy little kit even came with its own set of dye cups, so we didn't have to use mugs this year.  (I liked that.)  Each girl got eight eggs to dye.  They each shared one with Popee, so he could get in on the design fun.  (Silas took a nap during this fun activity.  Silas = a huge egg dyeing disaster.  I can picture eggs cracked, dye spilled and running over onto the carpet, girls crying, and Silas sitting in the middle of the kitchen counter smiling holding onto egg pieces with brightly colored hands and clothes.... DISASTER I tell you.  That boy may get to take a nap during potentially messy situations a LOT of times.)

Moving on.  There was a little wax crayon that the girls and Dad each used to draw designs on their eggs before dipping them into the dye.  It was supposed to make it so that no dye stuck in that area, but it did not work very well.  So they mostly just made their eggs solid colors and then Sarah got creative and started trying to make her last few eggs three or four different colors.

There were NO MESSES.  We had plenty of paper towels to catch drips, and everyone was very careful the whole entire time.  I maybe only said BE CAREFUL 152 times throughout the dyeing of all sixteen eggs.

A big THANKS AGAIN to two of the most patient grandparents I know.  There would have been no egg dyeing for the Hendrickson children in 2011, 2012, 2013, or 2014 without you!