Easter Eggs

Thanks Maggie!

Oh crumbs Juliette, I'm sure we were all right little unappreciative madams at some point when young (or even not so young !
Hindsight's only any good for beating yourself up with IMO, been there and done it.

Be kind to yourself x

And for rosesarered too.

Juliette . Don't feel guilty. You were a child, and I'm sure your mum would understand. We've all been unappreciative little madams at some stage!

Your egg reminds me of the story in A Country Child by Alison Uttley, when the little girl invited her classmates round to admire her Easter egg, without warning her family. I loved that book.

We always do an egg hunt around the garden like many of you, so let's hope the weather will be good on Sunday.

juliette, good to get it off your chest, I feel the same way about some boots my Mother once bought me, when they were all she could get and very likely afford.Since I was 12 at the time, I have to forgive myself, and you were only a child as well.I also remember an Easter egg that was very thin, although from a good shop, and just had a bit of coloured icing and a flower on it with hardly any packaging, and I wanted a Cadbury one! Kids eh?

My mum bought me a lovely Easter Egg when I was about eight or nine.
It was in a gold box lined with blue velvet, for grown ups really. I just wanted a normal one like everybody else, I was very disappointed and sadly I showed it.
Mum spent all my childhood compensating for the rubbish one she had to endure. I could just do with her popping back for ten minutes so that I could say how sorry I am for being such a selfish unappreciative little madam.
Now that I am much older than she was when she died I can finally see it.
Sorry to bring the thread down, I think about that Easter Egg every year.
I've never written it down before.
As you were (as they say on MN).

Oh yes, I'd forgotten the hunt! I bought a bag of eggs and Easter shapes from Aldi (who do very decent chocolate) and will be hiding them in very obvious places when the DGSs come round on Friday - they're only tots. I'll make sure a couple are quite well hidden so that I can indulge when they've all gone home!

Lol!

I'm planning an Easter bunny hunt. Lindt have the bunny and friends box with ladyBirds ,lambs, eggs ,carrots,bees and some sort of beetly thing. DH is writing the clues and I will photograph the chocs before the DGSs set off so they don't find too many of the same one. The Lindt chocolate is not too badIMO.

I've had to go and raid the DGS's Freddo stores, after reading this (it doesn't take much) . I buy a small size egg each for my DC, their partners, DH and me. Otherwise I wouldn't get one. I got all 8 this year for £6 in an amazing Tesco 4 for £3 promotion. The DGCs get little chocolate animals, as they're not really allowed much chocolate yet. Off for another Freddo.

No!!! Diet!

Not until Sunday. (says she, hopefully!)

Oh go on Jingl, spoil yourself!

Yes. It's nice to find one after Easter, left lying around. Son's bedroom is a good place to look.

OMG! I'm hankering after chocolate now! Must get off this thread!

Interesting replies, it seems split down the middle about having an egg!Call the Easter Bunny at once.Last year I bought a pack of golden Lindt rabbits, forget where I put them so bought some more for a DGS, a few weeks later found them in the wardrobe and scoffed them myself!They were yummy.I don't want an egg though, they are just too big.

Suffering for a good cause....I'd hate someone else to have to force themselves to eat it

That's put-up-able with.

You just have to eat the whole egg too...... after!

I agree.

In a word or two....nom, nom!!

Easter egg choccie is completely different to normal chocolate. It's the way it snaps between your teeth.

In February I usually tell the kids I do not want Easter Eggs this year. Beginning of March I change it to shell only ones. About three weeks before the day, I tell them to forget all that, I would just like the normal please. I hope to receive at least three, plus some little bits and pieces.

I don't think I will have a chocolate Easter egg but I am going to make pace eggs, having saved onion peelings for the last few weeks. I love the patterns and mottling they create. I usually pick a few flowers to add to them too.

DH always buys me an up market fancy egg like Hotel Chocolate or Lindt, he has a little of mine as he is not a chocolate fancier. if we have people to stay I put an Easter teat on their beds- this year its a bag of truffle eggs each. GS and nephew are getting a bit of money this year both have been doing well at school after a fallow patch.