Easter Scavenger Hunts

Because I'm off to Chicago with Lilly today  (to celebrate her 7th birthday!!  -- this post is a blast from the past....the year she was three, and I was doing her first scavenger hunt. That just doesn't seem possible.

Last week, I gave her the Chicago weekend in a box full of clues...and she had to guess where we were going.

It's still cold here...and we had our first tornado of the season the other night.  YIKES...there will be no tulips this year for the Easter table...



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From 2013:

After a week of abnormally warm temperatures -- the flowers were blooming. Yes, this is my favorite tulip picture from LAST YEAR...I'm sure it was a mutation that I will never see again in my life...


But that's okay. I appreciated it for what it was...one special fleeting moment...

This year John had a nice stand of spring flowers...



Another superfulous shot of Lillian last summer with her best friend, Sophie...

This Easter, Lilly will be 3 years old and that's the right time for her very first EASTER SCAVENGER HUNT.

When the boys were growing up -- I wasn't into the "Easter Bunny" myth. And Lord knows the Easter Candy was a problem. The boys would go to bed, and the next morning all their chocolate bunnies had their heads bit off.

What a mystery...
So -- instead -- I'd buy one toy or game for each of my boys. Then, I'd put the toy into his Easter basket and hide it. When they got out of bed, the first "clue" would be waiting for them on their door. It would take them to the second clue...which would take them to the third clue...yada yada...

My clues were always lame. They go something like this:

#1: Happy Easter, Lilly -- this is going to be fun...
Your next clue is in the left shoe that you use to run....

(then -- she will run to find her shoe -- and folded up will be another piece of paper)

#2: To find the next clue, go to the frig and look up...
It's a piece of paper resting under your cup...

Well -- you get the idea.

Here's the thing. My boys NEVER enjoyed my painstaking clues and Easter Scavenger Hunts. Unfortunately, I made them do it LONG AFTER they were officially "grown up"...

But the Easter Scavenger Hunt has definitely become one of those things that remembers better than it lived...

Much like time you served in the military, going on field trips with 25 third graders, or delivering your first child...

Hey -- it's a long list...