Today we went to the "blue park" just a few blocks from our house for the Easter Egg Hunt put on by the local Salvation Army church (Anders and I went last year--you can check the April 2007 archive). We got right to the park as they started the hunt. And you didn't want to be late--there were more people there this year (it was kind of funny to see Sikhs and people of other faiths out celebrating Easter), so the eggs went pretty quickly. Nils walked past a few piles of them before he understood that there was stuff on the ground that he could pick up. He got 5 eggs (which was still plenty); Anders maybe got 10 (he was pretty good about passing them on to other kids). Then we tried to play a little in the over-run park (seriously, there were more than 50 kids in the play area, which isn't very big).
We actually heard some mothers of children who arrived late and therefore didn't get any eggs, go to the Salvation Army people and complain. I'm not entirely sure what compels a person to go and complain that they didn't arrive until at least 15 minutes after the hunt started and their children didn't get any of the free candy that the church was donating.
But I suppose we all take free things for granted sometimes--including God's love. I hope He hears more gratitude and less complaining out of me at least.
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