My first Easter as a Hamlin

Daughter-In-Law Laura writes...

I married into the Hamlin family in 1992 marrying the baby of the family(Steve). My first Easter at the Hamlin home in Eudora was quite memorable. In my family we always celebrated Easter by having an easter egg hunt(real eggs that we had decorated) in our big country backyard. We usually had the hunt in the morning or sometimes in the afternoon after attending church and having a big family dinner. If we did have candy, it was always later in the day after we had eaten a meal.

Well, was I in for a new adventure in 1993. We arrived at the Hamlin home I believe the evening before Easter. On Easter Sunday we all attended mass and then came home to the Hamlin home. It was probably around 10 or 10:30 am and the Easter Egg Hunt began. The grandkids at that time were Zac, Hannah, Jason, Caleb, Jordan and Travis. All of the grandkids went out and hunted to their heart's delight and found tons of chocolate candy, jelly beans, malted milk eggs and much more. Everyone returned indoors and sat around the living room visiting and eating candy. This continued for the next 2 hours or more! I watched as the adults stuffed their faces with candy and more candy and the children continued doing the same. I finally asked Steve at around 1 pm if we were going to have lunch anytime soon as I was about to pass out from hunger. Little did I know that I was supposed to be eating candy for the past 2 hours to keep my blood sugar up. I finally went to the frig and found a piece of cheese or a sandwich to keep from passing out.

Finally around 2:30 in the afternoon we had lunch. For some reason the children didn't really feel hungry and just kind of picked at their food! Shortly after lunch, Caleb walked over to the couch and proceeded to PUKE(Spew,Vomit,Barf) whatever you like to call it, in Hannah's shoes and all over the couch. Wow, I would have never guessed that that might happen! After only 4-5 hours of eating candy one of the kids got sick! It was certainly a memorable holiday for me.