Happy (Western) Easter

While Ukrainians are not celebrating today (Orthodox Easter is next Sunday), Easter is fairly visible in stores & is taken pretty seriously as a time to celebrate.

Hooray for Ukrainian Egg Decorating

The good news – no need to import egg decorating kits……they have them here too.

And since we had packed ‘US egg kits’, we tried both side by side…..and I’m happy to report the Ukrainian kits trumped....


A) Brighter colors:

(I suspect the brightness is due to reduced restrictions on food dyes or something – but try not to think about that)

b)   More festive ‘stickers’: 

They sell these little sleeves you put around your egg,...

drop in hot water for 3 seconds...

Presto - you have a fancy egg!

Only problem was Zoe growing attached to hers – not wanting to give it up for consumption

Boo for the Ukrainian Easter bunny

While in hindsight it was a total lapse in judgment, the Easter bunny decided to simplify this year and just deliver Easter baskets.  He did not hide the colored eggs NOR zillions of plastic ones like the US bunny.  This was not deemed acceptable - especially by Quincy - with his 9 years of growing accustomed to the tradition…..

We speculated that maybe the Ukrainian bunny was saving the eggs to hide on Orthodox Easter.  But that was also not welcome news.  So we instead agreed to create our own egg hunt 

While this solved the initial disappointment, it also sparked questions.  Quincy found the penmanship from the bunny suspiciously familiar.... 

...and demanded I write something to compare

My cursive, block letters and right-handed writing did not entirely dispel his doubts.  Net, net, we learned while we preach the merits of trying new things – some (traditions) are best left as is.

Happy Easter – here's to believing in the spirit of the occasion and hoping you are enjoying some old or new (but acceptable) holiday traditions!