Show m m Ir If sec II By IRIS mIS Certain holidays said to be annual come oftener than once a year At least it doesn't seem to me there are fifty two whole weeks between Easters MAYBE THEY WOULDN'T feel scrunched so close together if 1 it weren't for egg colorIng Somehow Somehow Some Some- how try as I might I cant can't work up a whole lot of enthusiasm for lor the colorIng of boiled eggs f Ive I've a been tryIng to ease myself out of it for a long longtime time now Cheerfully I consent to boll eggs measure vInegar into hot water and dIvIde up colored pills After that with rather stupid confidence I tell the kids are finally old enough to color their own eggs so I can g go in the living 11 room and watch the news HAH Im I'm not lowered into my chair when the first screech of 01 anguish comes from the kitchen even before I 1 rush in that someone has spilled the purple dye Why its it's always the purple dye I dont don't know Nor do I know why it is always spilled on a white blouse ti GETTING IT CLEANED up never takes more than twenty minutes after which I 1 return to the living room again although by now Ive I've missed the news Not that it m matters because I dont don't make it to my chair before the first light fight breaks out One daughter wrecked a transfer belonging to the other daughter Tore it right down the middle Furthermore it was the only picture of two teeny ducks wearing blue bonnets At this point I decide to stay in the kitchen to supervise supervise su- su the proceedings I wonder as I pull up an egg and sit down who told my children about coloring coloring color color- ing eggs for Easter anyway anWay It wasn't me I DIDN'T TELL THEM ABOUT any either To my surprise this has worked and my chIldren have never expected little goodies to be delivered by an overgrown of the hare family I am grateful they find the idea too ridiculous bus lous to accept We do hide eggs on Easter for the children to find x I dont don't know why but fortunately none of them has ever asked me They dont don't ask why we go into the hills alter after chur h to roll the eggs either but then I didn't ask my mother I only knew we enjoyed the fresh air the early spring sunshine We also enjoyed eating the eggs even though they were often rather dirty from having cracked on their way down i the hill m I NEVER HEAR about egg rolling as an adult however without a small tinge of bitterness a hangover from my days in Washington DC D.C. DC D.C. during World War U n. n Never once did Eleanor Roosevelt invite my company of to an egg rolling on the White House lawn with tea to follow She invited the WAVEs one year and the SPARS another M My Y lower lip still trembles quite a lot when I recall r that long ago slight We do enjoy Easter at my house though even when David brings home joke like What goes hop through the mud An Easter pig II I ii |