A Multi-colored Morning!

Among the brightly colored baskets and pastel eggs that will be shared Easter morning in my home, we will continue the tradition my Mother started so long ago. We will have a very colorful breakfast. Every Easter my Mom would use food coloring to dye our breakfast food so that we had a rainbow of colors on our plates! It was quite the site. The meal would include Green Grits, Pink Scrambled Eggs, Ham (it's really hard to color ham) or bacon,& huge Biscuits. My parents would call the biscuits "cat head " biscuits. They were the best! I like to just call them huge because I really don't like the thought of eating a cat's head!:-) My Mom was a great cook and I will miss her a lot this Easter. I will think of her fondly as I color food for my own children and remember her standing at the stove with her hair a mess, a sink full of dishes from the night before, with my Dad on the couch watching TV and my siblings and I NOT waiting patiently at the table. The sounds of bacon frying and watching her in amazement as the grease would pop as if in a competition to see which pop of grease could land on the cooks arm, and she stood there carrying on the duties of cooking for her family as if there had been no attack. Her whole life could be summed up by those few words... for she certainly did go through life taking it all in stride as if she knew something we didn't. And indeed she did know something and that was her Faith that kept her eyes on those things that were heavenly and stood strong against the attacks of life. So this Sunday, I will read the accounts of the resurrection of Jesus Christ to my children and with my own hair a mess and most likely a sink full of dishes...color some grits green or even purple.
Happy Easter... my God lives