"Dye Eggs"

In case you’re wondering why we are celebrating Greek Easter six weeks after everyone else, don;t worry, I’m going to share with you.  I could give you a long description on how how Orthodox churches follow the older Julian calendar. Or this version that I copied from Wikipedia.  For some reason (why is not explained in Wikipedia) because they follow the Julian calendar, Orthodoxy prohibits Easter from being celebrated before or at the same time as Passover. Sometimes the stars align and Greeks get to celebrate Easter with everyone else but all too often our Easter is after ‘American’ Easter as we used to call it when we were kids. Hey, at least all the Easter candy is half off. 

I’m sure you have all been biting your nails waiting for our Easter pictures. Well, that day is almost here. But first you can witness how for the first time in 10 years of living abroad I finally managed to order PAS egg dye in time for Easter. This meant no boiling beets, no boiling red onions (neither works in case you were wondering, no matter what little old ladies in Greece may tell you), or using food dye that permanently dye your children’s hands for weeks on end.  And it meant there were stickers and fun things that kids apparently LOVE, who knew!?

Our adventure started the night before with a walk to the store to buy some white eggs. I have tried this whole thing with brown eggs and it just doesn’t work. Sidenote, we are pretty lucky to have a lady in our building who delivers us fresh organic eggs (that are brown) from her farm every week. Just don’t ask me how many eggs we go through….it is A LOT. Malcolm can eat four eggs all by himself. 

And guess who learned to say Dye Eggs! This little guy. It took me an hour or so to figure out what he was saying but he was so happy once I figured it out!