Not far from Metz, the town of Laquenexy has a beautiful botanical garden. They were holding an Easter egg hunt this weekend ( Read more... )

Dying eggs is one of those things I loved to do as a kid, longed to do again as a mom, and forgot, somewhere in the interval, what a messy prospect the whole thing is.

Z loved it, especially when I showed him how to use pieces of tape to "tie-dye" his eggs. Best of all, he now likes hard boiled eggs--he ate a whole one at dinner!