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Easter Sunday at Home 2005

·Grand Rapids, Michigan·#michigan#family#holiday#spring#easter
Two people in a kitchen smile while standing behind a table covered with newspaper and egg-dyeing supplies.

Easter Sunday at home in Grand Rapids, with the eggs dyed the night before at the counter — newspaper spread everywhere, the little wire dipper, the usual mess. My brother had blue dye halfway up his fingers by the end of it.

Everyone came over for the day. We got the whole group lined up in front of the big window for a photo before things got loose, one of the kids holding the Easter basket with the stuffed rabbit sticking out of the grass.

Then the egg-cracking contest took over the kitchen. Two grown men squaring off with hard-boiled eggs, one green shirt against one white, holding them up like it was a duel. The kids wanted in immediately, reaching up over the counter with their own eggs, the dog nosing in under the table. The women ended up at the sink peeling the losers.

Dinner table was set in the other room the whole time, waiting.

Six people of three generations are gathered indoors, with an Easter basket and a snowy outdoor landscape visible through a large window.Two people playing a game inside, one reaching into a bowl on the wall, the other holding a light blue egg.Two people interact in a home; one reaches into a wall bowl, the other smiles holding a teal egg.Two people indoors, one holding a pink ball and the other a blue ball, facing each other.Four women are gathered in a kitchen, with one washing her hands at the sink and another peeling food.Four people, two adults and two children, are in a kitchen, holding plastic eggs, with a dog peeking under a table.

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