Easter Memories....

Ah-h-h-h.....another Easter has come and gone.  This one was EASY.  No children at home any longer....no eggs to dye.....no baskets to fill....but best of all...NONE OF THAT DAMN PLASTIC EASTER GRASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    God, how I hate that awful stuff!!  But, what's an Easter basket without it??  Can't just have the eggs and stuff rolling around in there! 

When my kids were small (and even once they became teenagers) they fully expected to receive an Easter basket filled with all sorts of goodies, every year.  Oh, I didn't mind.  It was actually fun to put them together & see their faces light up when they found them on Easter morning. 

I couldn't wait for the kids to finally eat all their Easter goodies just so I could REMOVE the grass from the baskets! Most often, I'd put it in a plastic bag & store it in the closet for the next year.  But, no matter how careful we ALL tried to be, the damned Easter grass would end up all over the floors.  For months after...I was continually finding Easter grass...in the carpet....in the laundry....in the dryer vent..... EVERYWHERE! !  There just seemed to be no end to it!  It was as though, the more I picked up....the more there was.  (How can this be??) 

It was even in the DOG!!!  But it took me awhile to realize this.  I just happened to be outside one day, shortly after Easter, when he decided to 'do his business'.  Imagine my amazement at the multi-colored dog poop! There!  There was the PINK grass from my daughter's basket.....and BLUE from one of the boy's baskets.....and the standard GREEN Easter grass!!!! 

I'd like to see the look on some archaeologists' face when this petrified dog turd is unearthed, a thousand years from now.  It'll  be interesting to see how they will try to scientifically "explain" this phenomenon.  They'll probably invent some new "never before known" species to go along with their story.  Like maybe....a
"Canine Rainbow-Plastipoopalotamus"