Its sad when you see the adults acting worse then the kids at a kid friendly event.
Today on base they had a kids Easter egg hunt where they put out a ton of eggs in fields for the kids to find. They break the events down by age. 0-2 year olds go first, then 2-3 and 4-5. then 5-6 and 7-8 and finally 9-12. They surround the fields with white tape making a square so the kids stand on the line and they are told how many eggs they can grab and it is repeated over and over by the volunteers if you have more then allowed please put them back so other kids can grab them and have the same amount. Round one was the youngest kids (0-2) and this is the only age group where kids can have help from a parent. So my friend goes out with her daughter while I wait with the other kids (they time them so the age groups don't overlap) and she came back with 5 eggs. There should have been enough for each child to get 20 eggs in this age group. She explained to me that parents where grabbing handfuls of eggs like it was a race and did not care that they had 30 or more eggs while other kids had 3, 4 or 5 because of all these parents. The sad thing is I saw the parents push and knock over other peoples kids to get the eggs and they totally forgot about their own little kids while the egg hung was going on. Its sad that people, especially a parent can be so rude and act so horribly and not realize that because they want to take all the eggs other little kids are going without. Not like it really mattered because my friend later pointed out that most of the candy in the eggs were jolly ranchers, gum and now and later for that age group. Seriously what kid at that age can eat candy like that? and what were the people thinking who decided what candy should be given out in the eggs to that age group.
Hannah did well. She understood what she had to do and went and got eggs without grabbing or pushing or running. It seemed better when parents were not allowed though I saw several kids grab out of other peoples buckets. Hannah did grab more then the allotted amount but I made her give those eggs to a child who was to afraid to go alone and there for had none so her and my daughter walked away with 15 eggs each (that was the allotted number of eggs each child could take) I did see kids who still took way more then allowed, or parents who would let their kids do more then one egg hunt and by the fourth egg hunt it was clear that even the volunteers realized the foul play and kept a better eye on what people were doing and trying to keep it more fair. I was worried once we got to Jordans age group which was the oldest that this would be the one where the kids would shove and push and steal but it probably was the best behaved one. Jordan was smart and while all the kids ran to the middle to grab eggs he grabbed the eggs nearest us. He also counted out what he could have and when he was done he came back to riffle through his loot.
Overall it was a good day, the kids had a blast and the rain held off and it was sunny out. Its hard to believe tomorrow is Easter. We still have to dye our eggs. Tomorrow we have our own egg hunt and both my kids get 3 baskets (from us, and from each set of Grandparents) then its off to a friends house for dinner and another egg hunt. We are a busy family this week and I so could use a nap but instead I am off to clean.
I hope everyone has a very happy Easter Sunday.
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