Lovelihood

The handles are just big enough for Bear to slide her wrist into. www.lovelihood.com

It's the day before easter and the sun couldn't be brighter, bringing the daytime high way up to the mid-60s, making it positively summer-like. So our plan to do the easter hunt at the zoo was a go. We've done it before, before we left for Texas where being out under the April sun was bearable for only a couple minutes at a time. So we were prepared for the mass dump of plastic egg empties into open fields. A challenging hunt, it is not. A little pointless, even. But this did nothing to dampen the kids' enthusiasm for piling eggs into their new baskets.

So they don't exactly make it all that challenging to find the eggs. Of course, I don't think the under-3 set is neccessarily looking for a challenge when it comes to egg hunts. www.lovelihood.com

Kinder Surprise eggs are banned in the US. Something about edibles not containing delightful thumb-sized toys within their confines, a restriction every domestic sugar-cereal producer manages to somehow circumvent. But like affordable prescription drugs and health care, they are available in Canada. And for a hefty shipping fee, you can get a month's worth of eggs in a store-sized display box delivered to your door, discreetly packaged in cardboard brown.

Two painted, one (well two, if you count the other one) shellacked with flora, one warm fuzzied. Read about it at www.lovelihood.com/blog/successes-and-near-miss

The "natural" one in the back there sports some bugs that got swept up in our harvest. Read about it at www.lovelihood.com/blog/successes-and-near-miss

The one that wasn't a disaster. Read about it at www.lovelihood.com/blog/successes-and-near-miss