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mama hen and her eggs
April 5, 2010
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‘They’ say you reach a new level of love when your kid has a kid. I don’t know this but ‘they’ also say you reach a new level of love when you have kids and this I do know.

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My ma’s been in town and it’s been grand. We’ve been chatting over a squealing toddler at the park and over good food at the kitchen table. Collecting eggs, singing the abcs, going for walks, reading books and laughing with a baby who has decided sleep when it’s dark out just isn’t her thing. (so TIRED today)
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Our Easter weekend was lazy and fun. We participated in Missoula’s big ol’ Easter Egg Hunt although hunt is the wrong word as the eggs are in plain view and it’s less about finding them and more about Survival of the Fittest, or Survival of the Most Aggressive.
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The tone of our experience was established by a man who, at the bell, sprinted to the center of the two year-old egg field to snag the only two footballs. Swear.

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Read all about that and the lessons learned from my bug in today’s mama digs essay, mama hen and her eggs.
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Hey, Margot can you please sit here and hold your sister so I can take a photo?
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24 Comments


Melissa
April 5, 2010 at 5:30 PM

oh my. reading about the egg hunt reminded me of the inaugeration and how impressed i was then that no one pushed or shoved or anything. and it was crazy crowded. i love the animal imagery–so true, because it’s that primal, animal nature that comes out in us as parents when we want to protect our little ones.

margot looks darling in her dots.

and we are no strangers to blurry photos over here–without our new baby even!

how wonderful to have the time with your ma. mine was here just overnight and avi was still asking for her this morning . . . and still asking for chocolate.

xoxo



serialswooper
April 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM

Yay, Margot! Some fine hunting and gathering.

We attended a hunt as well. 5 YO loved every egg-grabbing second. Racing all around collecting as quickly as he could. Hunt complete, 10 eggs or so in basket, he then furtively glanced around in search of his long ago left-behind little brother — who had happily plopped down on the lawn after just two eggs to enjoy his bounty.

Kids. They kill me.



Pam
April 5, 2010 at 7:26 PM

“My mom and I silently worked together like trained ninjas” – brilliant line!



Jean
April 5, 2010 at 7:27 PM

I had to read the entire thing to Richard. What a perfectly described (and photographed) scene. And what a great lesson to come away with. R. said in Red Lodge, by the by, that they do it in age groups, but this looks like a toddlers-only event.

I love that damn dress.



joan
April 5, 2010 at 8:18 PM

I hate like hell to admit it but I am more like the crazy ass dad that hurdled the toddlers to grab the ultimate treasure. However, I have been able to restrain myself over these many years. Oh, ya, there was that time at Andy’s baseball tourney that I am not so proud of but it really was just a misunderstanding. Karma will come to this father. The universe has a plan for him. I love that Margot Bea was in her own world with her heros at her side as I am sure the other toddlers were. This was good, very good.



Ailene
April 5, 2010 at 8:25 PM

Your essay on the egg hunt was hysterical! I especially liked the “trained ninja” pic 🙂 You are so right about the craziness that comes over parents. We wonder where the kids learn it from!

I always love your writing and reflections because they make me take a step back from my own “craziness” and look at what’s really important to my daughter (not prepping dinner but making puzzles, mama! Not ‘puter but feeding Lion, mama!)

Thanks for your thoughts — they are a breath of fresh air to this mama!



Sage
April 5, 2010 at 9:01 PM

oh ya, i know the feeling. You go thinking, oh how lovely, a community egg hunt! But no, it is just a bunch of insane parents trampling little kids. Honesty, I hate pretty much everything about it. It brings out the worst in people. I don’t really know why people go..

We now skip the community egg hunts, and instead have our own egg hunt with friends and family and it is so much fun! The kind I remember as a kid, searching for treasure while parents laugh and help, and discovering so much more than just eggs…

Little Ruby in this last pic kills me! She looks like she could be right out of the 70’s in that little knitted suit. So sweet.

xoxo



Kristi
April 5, 2010 at 9:48 PM

Wow.



Jean
April 6, 2010 at 2:24 AM

Pam, Richard laughed out loud at that one, too. 🙂



Jen
April 6, 2010 at 2:24 AM

yesterday at our mini egg hunt … we let the kids do the hunting. weird. i know.



Naturebroad
April 6, 2010 at 2:26 AM

I’ve heard much the same about “that” annual event. I’m pretty sure that if they used real eggs there’d be nobody there…



Tina Svaren
April 6, 2010 at 2:27 AM

I was embarressed just to read about the dad with the footballs. I mean come on, really??



finny knits
April 6, 2010 at 2:31 AM

Frankly, if I had those awesome green boots, I wouldn’t care about any eggs at all. Good kid.



Jen Slayden
April 6, 2010 at 2:42 AM

I love the great lesson from Margot!!

and…….what a lame dad to take BOTH footballs:) He should have been kicked off the field!



Kelle
April 6, 2010 at 3:21 AM

GUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH on that yellow outfit on Ruby! LOVE!! And love the article. Always love the way you write.
xoxo



Kathleen
April 6, 2010 at 6:31 AM

Hello! I’ve just linked here from Kelle’s blog ‘enjoying the small things’ 🙂

Your family is gorgeous, and I know just what you mean about the new level of love you reach when you have kids! The egg hunt looks wonderful – I look forward to next Easter when my little guy will be big enough for some Easter hunting fun…

If you get a chance, I’d love you have a wee look at my blog (pretty much devoted to my wonderful little boy!), http://ourbigadventure-kathleen.blogspot.com/

Happy Easter to you & yours – enjoy the shift into springtime (just as we’re waving goodbye to summer over here in New Zealand…)



Bethany
April 6, 2010 at 2:31 PM

i stumbled across your blog through kelle’s and i think will read it often! i had the SAME exact experience with the easter egg hunt . . . i wrote a little about it on my blog–cartwheelsoup.blogspot.com. ours didn’t even have the EGGS! it was nuts. anyhow–nice to “meet” you!



Heidi
April 6, 2010 at 3:51 PM

love the pics, the skirt, the side photo of you and baby. laughing with your mom…good times for sure!

i LOVE the tabs under your header…
this is pretty much
what am trying to figure out and do! i wanna style my stuff up;) it LOOKS great, nici!

i saw the clothes you made for lainey and nella and they are BEAUTIFUL!!!! seriously, they are special.

xoxo



Mama
April 6, 2010 at 10:33 PM

Love Ruby in the yellow wool jumper sittin’ pretty like a big lady.

At our island egg hunt, the parents stayed at garden’s perimeter, but Betty got hip checked out of the way for a yellow egg in the tulips. Eager little beavers don’t fall too far from the dam I suppose.

Margot and her careful, selective manner. Just like Daddy, eh?

xoxo



*Wesley*
April 7, 2010 at 12:07 AM

Sheesh – some people! At least Margot had a good time. Love seeing Ruby sitting all on her own – she is getting so big!!



Jodi
April 7, 2010 at 1:15 AM

Another week, another great post. Another lesson learned from Margot! And more great pictures to smile at. Thanks!



Kimberly
April 7, 2010 at 1:35 AM

Found your blog thru Kelle’s. Going to follow you! Love the pictures from the egg hunt!



Life with Kaishon
April 12, 2010 at 1:36 PM

I could seriously look at pictures of your girls all day! SO so SO so SO sweet : ) Love the happiness here.



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