Every year we have the same problem following the Easter egg hunt: unfound eggs. My kids are notoriously bad finders and I’m a crafty hider. Bad combo. Throw in an OCD mom about missing eggs and you get, Look out!
This year I made a careful count and then made a mental note of how many were hid in each room. I didn’t actually map out every spot, but surely I could remember the two or three spots in each room.
Sure enough, only 10 of 13 showed up in the carton. The kids were done looking and they had candy. Searching just isn’t their thing. I revisited all 13 of my hiding places and found one. Kara was badgering; she could not find peace. I suggested that perhaps the eggs had been found but put in the wrong place. This yielded one more but we are still one shy.
What can I do? The 13 places I hid eggs are vacant. Maybe next year we’ll use GPS or something. Or maybe we’ll only hide three: one with each cell phone. They’ll search until they’re found.
4 comments:
13 eggs??? we color 60 eggs...hid 56 (4 cracked) but none of us eat them...so it's kind of a waste. I told Doug that the real eggs should be not obviously hidden...just laying around in the open and the plastic eggs are hid better...my kids will still go right over the real eggs as if they dont even see them in search for the plastic ones...but-at least they are not "hidden" so there is no fretting later.
We had 26 plastic eggs. That is a good idea about leaving the real ones out. I think next year I am going to hide them all in the egg carton in the refrigerator. (Amanda and I eat them.)
i would love to see some of your hiding places!
We don't even hide the real eggs. Roger taught me a lONG time ago not to bother finding those eggs, just go for the candy filled ones. So we don't even bother.
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