Mama loved Easter! She enjoyed dyeing easter eggs
and
she especially loved to see her children (and
grand-children) hunt easter eggs in the backyard.
Well, during Easter of 1958, Mama
and Daddy were in
the middle of a renovation to add the current
kitchen.
I was about 9 years old, Barbie was 8, Mike was 4
and
Joy was 2. I remember it was a rainy and cold
Easter
Sunday. The kitchen room was incomplete, the walls
(sheet rock) had not been installed yet and the 2x4
studs were all exposed.
Well, Mama knew we could not go
outside and hunt
easter eggs because of the rainy weather. So she
dyed
easter eggs and hid them all around the unfinished
kitchen, even in the walls next to the exposed
2x4s.
It was such a memorable Easter and she made an
otherwise gloomy day a lot of fun for us kids. I'll
always have fond memories of this.
Nancy Kruse
