Egg Hunt!

Easter started for us on Palm Saturday, with the Youth and Family Services Egg hunt, headed by our own Cassie McHugh. For the week preceding, Cass stuffed 800 eggs and 200 baskets with YFS volunteers, coordinated logistics to welcome, entertain and feed 300 people and designated responsibilities for each JV. (She delegated well, according to our strengths – Sus, Steph and I received page-long schedules of organizational details, while the boys’ joint task-list read “Set up grills. Cook! Cook! Cook!”) And it was a success. The day dawned cold and brilliant and the community turned out in unprecedented numbers. The highlight of my morning was officiating the three-legged race, which was so popular that the adults demanded their own heat. (Sorry Joe & Cass, you know what they say about “almost.”)

Thanks to the cafeteria, the Clothing Room, and YFS, everyone left having eaten, every kid left with an Easter basket, and eight grand-prize winners went home with new bikes. It was a fun event and a chance for the six of us, usually split by our work schedules, to spend the day together.