New Family Tradition

On Easter morning, during our family egg hunt, Mason noted that his basket was less full than his older brother's basket.  He was a little disappointed, but he is a kid who shakes things off quickly.  A few transfers from Merritt's basket to Mason's and all was well.  (Meanwhile, Molly was ecstatic about the whole experience and quite satisfied with finding her handful.)

When we got in the house and Mason began to open all of his plastic eggs, he came across one that was completely empty.  After the previous egg-hunt setback, this was quite discouraging for him.  I tried to be brilliant and rescue the situation by explaining that since Easter was really about Jesus' empty tomb, the empty egg was really the best egg of the day.  It was REAL Easter egg.

Well, that do too much to make Mason feel better at the moment, but ever since then, I have been thinking about that and about how to make the empty egg the best egg to find.

I think we'll make some kind of special party hat for the person who finds the empty egg, or let them eat off of the "special person of the day" plate at lunch, or something else special to help the message of the Easter "empty" stick...