It's All About Me #7

“If Friday were a rainbow, it would be a double one.” (Keith Wynn)

 

Hello, my lovely friends!

 

      Here we are on Friday Funday! I had this put together for last week and spaced it out. It’s better late than never with it. This is the Easter edition for you.

 

1. While sleeping in bed the night before Easter I swear I saw the Easter Bunny in the living room when I was a kid. You see my bedroom was right next to the living room and when I went to the bathroom very early in the morning I looked over and believed I saw him in the middle of the room. It scared me and I ran back to my room and had a hard time falling back to sleep. When I woke up in the morning there was my basket filled and I told my sister the story that I saw him. I’m not sure if she believed me, but I believed I did.

 

2. Our community was having an Easter Egg contest the day before Easter. It was opened only to kids and you had to decorate one egg. I believe I was about seven and my sister was eleven. She was at the kitchen table with paint brushes, paint and dye carefully decorating her egg for about an hour. Me? I was outside playing and my mom kept calling me to come in to do my egg. About ten minutes before we were leaving to enter the contest I ran inside, grabbed an egg and painted a big Picasso like messy egg. We entered our eggs and they said they would call the winner in a couple of days. A few days later there was a call and one of the eggs won. My parents assumed it was my sister because she worked for an hour on that egg, but nope I won. We went down to pick up my prize and it was a brand new blue bike with training wheels, I was so happy. I was always getting my sisters hand-me-downs and this was brand new and all mine. The guy at the store said I won because it looked like a kid did. There were too many eggs that looked too perfect like an adult helped, but my egg looked like a kid did it.

 

3. Another time when I was about five or six  I drove my dad crazy with wanting him to hide the eggs over and over again outside. After about the fourth time of hiding them he had a bright idea. He told me to go to my room and he’ll go outside and hide the eggs except he didn’t hide them outside. You know what he did? He took my Easter basket put the egg in them and the grass on top of them. He called me to go look for the eggs and I was outside for a good five to ten minutes before I realized the eggs I was looking for was in my basket. LOL

 

4. When I was 15 I would joke that my second home was McNichols Arena because I loved going to concert, it was the hair metal band era and I was full on in it. That year for Easter I had tickets to go see Whitesnake with Great White opening up. Easter dinner was at our house that year and I had dinner with the family because we usually had it around 2 p.m. I went with a couple of friends and I remember one of my aunts (the one we don’t associate with) was shocked that my parents were letting me go. You have to remember the hair metal bands back then were the “devils music” and must be banned. I have to admit most of the concert I went to had bible thumping people there trying to save us from going in to hear that “devils music”. Yeah, some of the songs are played in grocery stores now. LOL.

 

5. I moved to Florida to work at a resort when I was 19. My sister and BIL worked there too. The first holiday I was away from home for was Easter. My BIL had to work and I spent Easter with my sister only. We went to church that morning and then into the Keys to have a lobster dinner with an ocean view. It was a little sad, but I still was with family for it.

 

6. Also the Easter in Florida my mom sent me a care package and it was an Easter basket. One for me and another one for my sister and BIL. To this day I still get an Easter basket from my mom. One year she even found me a basket with a bunny on it and that is the basket I still use today. You’re never too old to have the Easter Bunny visit you with a basket.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

I wish you a good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are.

Until next time… Adios!