Oops!

Little sweetheart, I had a plan to dye some Easter eggs tonight.

I did a half dozen last year all in a sort of shade of robin’s egg blue. Your mom gave me that lovely deviled eggs dish with the two little bunnies in the center, and I thought I’d place them there and later make the deviled eggs.

I had a dozen this time but the colors came out all wrong. The dye looked fine. I mean, they come in little tablets according to the different colors. I dissolved the blue one - you dissolve them in a mixture of water and white vinegar - and the liquid itself looked fine but the eggs kept coming up shades of green, not blue. If I left them in a few minutes longer they still weren’t right but I tried to convince myself they were getting closer to something resembling blue. I even tried a few of the other different tablets to see how those colors came out - the red one, the one that was supposed to be green, the yellow one - and they were a bit closer to the right colors but still really kind of darker and off.

It wasn’t until I’d used the entire dozen that I realized, remembered - these were all brown eggs to begin with! Not white! You need white to get the colors right! It was so ridiculous of me!

I just know you’d be laughing and laughing and not only at me but with me because it’s exactly the kind of thing we would do together! Don’t you think? Like both of completely baffled, mystified, no idea of why things were going so wrong until… we finally figured it out!

I told your mom right away, she loved it! Then I went out and got half a dozen more eggs - white this time. I saved the cup full of blue dye. We’ll try this again tomorrow!

With all my love.