March 27, 2008

• More Easter Preparation

  Every year on Holy Thursday our family has a tradition of inviting a different family over to bake Easter bread with us.  This year for the first time, because everyone was recovering from being sick we though it would be a good idea to not invite anyone over.  But Mary-Kate decided that we should still have Easter bread and we should still have enough to give away to those families that we usually give bread to each year. 

  

  Now, anyone who knows Mary-Kate knows that she doesn’t make bread.  She !!!!Hates!!!! the feel of flour on her hands and invariably fails to kneed the dough long enough.  But she decided to make the bread all by herself this year.  So she sent me out of the kitchen and got started making the bread. 

  

  Her doughs came out fairly well and when they were risen she started the process of braiding the breads.  I thought that after kneeding the loaves adequately that she would poop out before she got to this point but she hung in there and got all the loaves braided and baked.

  

  The bread all got baked and then she got Matthew into the kitchen to color the eggs.

  

  This is right up his alley.  They chattered like a couple of magpies while they were in there coloring eggs.

  

  You can’t see it but this is one ugly egg.  Fortunately they only had a couple of them this year.  Some years the vast majority of eggs were dipped into all the colors so that they were awful looking by the time they came out.

   

  Not a bad bunch of eggs.

  

  A great way to spend the afternoon. 

  

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