Maturity...

[2sp_]

It's now days after Easter Sunday (3 to be exact) and I still have some Easter eggs left.

Is this a sign that I've become a grown-up?

[DJHawkes]

no, if you were grown -up you would have had bacardi not easter eggs : )

[sherrardk]

Last year the children got so many that they were still eating them after Christmas (it's a pain dividing up chocolate eggs fairly so they get forgotten about). This year they got an egg, a big chocolate bunny and a baby bunny each (and a DVD because I felt mean). I didn't get any eggs (not big on chocolate - I like kids sweets).

[2sp_]

lol dotty!

Sadly I'm teetotal (probably not that sadly actually, I'm a total bum hole when I'm drunk), so chocolate is my main vice these days.

[Jeza]

Can't remember the last time I ate chocolate, so I'm with Dot I'll have a Bacardi.

[2sp_]

Sher, my Mum doesn't give eggs to the kids at all. This year they got books and a toy each. Just as well or I would be forced to "help" them eat all the chocolate.

[sherrardk]

2sp - I am a bit bonkers about being 'fair' so the chocolate ahas to be weighed so everyone knows they are getting the same amount. Himself just dished it out earlier in the week and the kids weren't happy! They can have chocolate and sweets (after tea), they just have to have ones that are easily divided up into fair quantities.

[2sp_]

I don't think that's bonkers at all, sher. Saves any arguments, I'll bet.

My dad used to bring home a mars bar for my brother and I to share every Friday night. The deal was one of us would cut it and the other would get first pick of the pieces. It's truly amazing how accurate I became with a ruler...

[sunny-dave]

Ah yes - the "you cut, they get first pick" rule - when I was cutting you couldn't get more accurate if you used a micrometer ...

... amazingly I've seen kids who don't get it at all - hack off a lump of around two-thirds of the total & then go ballistic when they wind up with the small piece.

[sherrardk]

Himself makes the older kids work out the total weight of the chocolate on offer and how much they should each get (ex-primary deputy head, sucks all the fun out of things IMO).

[2sp_]

My brother was crap at cutting, so in the end my dad would get me to cut it because it really was getting sad!