I’ve liked Rachael Ray ever since her first quirky 30 Minute Meals show on the Food Network.
I like her magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray. Good recipes. Good tips. (Normally) good ideas.
The April issue that we just got has some ultra-creative egg decorating ideas.
They give techniques for making eggs REALLY hard to hunt. They show how to make them look like grass or rocks, or blend in with table decorations or a brick sidewalk.
But then . . . the cutest idea of all was one that made the egg look a pair of baby shoes, hidden in plain sight with all of the family’s other shoes.
Hmmm. Hidden in plain sight doesn’t really work for me. You know, Slob Vision and all . . .
Another showed how to make an egg look like part of a shirt, so you could hide it IN A DRAWER!
In a drawer, people.
Can I just say that while eggs hidden outside can feature all sorts of creativity . . . no slob should, under any circumstances . . . place a boiled egg (cute or not) inside a drawer.
And walk away.
And assume someone will find it.
Before it starts to smell.
I suppose the eggs could be blown out (a concept that totally grosses me out), but then we have the issue of eggshells in my underwear.
I just can’t see how it could possibly end well in our home.
Please note: If you’d like to suggest I make a spreadsheet detailing the number of eggs hidden vs found . . . Welcome!
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The magazine subscription link? It’s my Amazon affiliate link, of course!
I laughed so hard! I love that I have found another!! Another God fearing Wife, Mother, Homemaker that is…wait for it…a slob. Until you bore it all and came out in your slobdom, I thought I was the only one. Now I know I am one of many lovely “works in progress”. Thanks for sharing.
And yeah, no slob in their right mind would hide hard boiled eggs like that! Now Candy filled ones,hidden that well could provide months worth of discovering treats in unexpected places…might be something to that!
Yes, jelly beans in the undies drawer? That I could do!
I just love your posts. I’m also a slob trying to get the house in order. This article has me laughing so hard.
You are so real and honest. I really appreciate that.
You make me feel not so alone in my efforts to clean up.
Oh thank you, Anastacia!
This reminds me of the episode of Gilmore Girls where Kirk hid all of the easter eggs and didn’t create a “map” to make sure that all were found. When Taylor gets back from wherever he went, the town is starting to smell. So Luke goes out and finds the remaining eggs. And Kirk is never allowed to do the Easter Egg Hunt again.
But yeah, not going to happen at my house either. We stick with plastic eggs filled with whatever I can find in the dollar bin.
The Gilmore Girls episode is exactly what I was thinking of the whole time I read this! Loved that show!
I have to agree this is never happening at my house either. Even if I made a map I would probably forget where I put it which would make the stinky eggs easier to find than the map!
I can’t stop giggling. To be quite honest, I can’t imagine this being a good idea in anyone’s home, but in mine … oh, there’d be a smell. For sure.
We do egg hunts outside, with plastic eggs with goodies, or we use jelly beans. Plastic eggs work well for little kiddies and jelly beans can be hysterical to watch if you have older “kids” (adults included).
“You must be new here.” HA!
Giggling out loud! OMW, I can’t imagine finding one of those hidden eggs mid-summer. Yikes. Very cute idea, but the consequences could be staggering.
(this from the woman who found a plastic egg just last week in her garden)
Oh my! This was hilarious.
I totally relate. Love it!
“Welcome, you must be new here”. ROTFL that was too funny!
Love you and your blog so much!!!
You are SO the best, and I am intensely jealous of you and Connie hanging out for the weekend at Blissdom! Love this! (I don’t know if we’ll even get around to dying eggs, let alone hiding the things!)