{"id":3276,"date":"2016-03-27T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2016-03-27T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T20:07:42","slug":"sunny-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=3276","title":{"rendered":"<b>Sunny holiday weekend!<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In accordance with long-standing tradition, the kids and I dyed Easter eggs on Friday afternoon, in preparation for our family egg hunt the following day. The thing is, when you&#8217;ve got as many kids as I do, you need a whole lot of eggs; we had just under five dozen (I had used four eggs to bake cookies), and I can assure you that it takes quite a while to get that many eggs colored, even with a lot of helpers.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/revelry\/images\/petrabrynjayrsadyeingeggs25march2016.jpg\" alt=\"Egg-dyeing\" border=1\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure of the reason behind Yrsa&#8217;s expression here, but it&#8217;s a great picture and an accidentally lovely egg, to boot.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/revelry\/images\/yrsadyeingeggs25march2016.jpg\" alt=\"Egg-dyeing\" border=1\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/revelry\/images\/eastertree25march2016.jpg\" alt=\"P&aring;skris\" border=1\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>While I got the dye ready to go, the girls busied themselves decorating our &#8220;Easter tree&#8221; (known as <i>p&aring;skris<\/i> in Swedish), and I think they were as pleased with that as they were with the eggs. The best part of Easter, however&#8211;apart from the ten-day break from school&#8211;is hunting the eggs on Saturday. As usual, it was my four younger kids and their cousin, Knut, searching out what Olof and I had hidden around Farmor and Farfar&#8217;s yard. The dogs, of course, were on hand to help, and Asbj&oslash;rn was eager to assist in devouring the spoils afterward.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/revelry\/images\/kidshuntingeggs26march2016.jpg\" alt=\"Egghunt!\" border=1\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/revelry\/images\/brynjaolof26march2016.jpg\" alt=\"Egghunt!\" border=1\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/revelry\/images\/kidseatingeastereggs26march2016.jpg\" alt=\"The reward\" border=1\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In accordance with long-standing tradition, the kids and I dyed Easter eggs on Friday afternoon, in preparation for our family egg hunt the following day. The thing is, when you&#8217;ve got as many kids as I do, you need a whole lot of eggs; we had just under five dozen (I had used four eggs&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=3276\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunny holiday weekend!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}