Reality check

 What it looks like:  Emmy finding an egg.  Reality:  Emmy finding an egg.

 What it looks like:  a Maxwell Easter-egg hunt.  Reality:  a very simple and "thrown-together-at-the-last-minute" Maxwell Easter-egg hunt.

 What it looks like:  Jonas and an armful of eggs.  Reality:  Jonas and an armful of eggs.

 What it looks like:  a happy Emmy finding another egg.  Reality:  2 minutes later Emmy was crying because she only found two eggs.

 What it looks like:  Jonas and everyone helping Lucy get an egg in the tree.  Reality:  Everyone Loves Lucy.

What it looks like:  4 nice and well-behaved children checking out their spoils of the hunt.  Reality:  a lot of bickering over "hey that's my egg," i.e., "I don't care if you found that egg, that was one that I had decorated!"  It was sort of spoiled by a 9-year old and then more spoiled by said 9-year old's mother who lectured the kids and went off on a few other things . . .

P.S.  We did this early since we are going to be driving on Easter-Saturday and Sunday.  We are going on our first ever not-visiting-family vacation.  I LOVE visiting family, but I am excited to be going a real vacation, too.

P.P.S.  I'm 34 today!