Easter Eggs

Lol!

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!

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).

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?

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 . 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.

And for rosesarered too.

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

Thanks Maggie!