We’re having our annual Spring party tomorrow, and I’ve had to make a few changes to the initial plan.

I decided that we can put the Easter Eggs in white plastic cups and hide them outside, that way they won’t get soaked or buried in the snow while the kids look for them.  With any luck they’ll stay outside and make snowmen, as the house is a bit small for so many people, and I had sort of hoped (ha, ha!) that we would be eating outside! I’ve had to make a few changes to the menu as well.  We were going to be having wild primrose and dandelion leaf salad.  Hmmm, I don’t think so:

These were the only primroses in sight, and they’re looking a bit folorn. Instead we are having:

• Asparagus leaves with dipping sauce
• Tapenade on toasts
• Roquette salad with walnuts and orange or quail’s eggs depending what Mike comes up with

• Salt-roasted chicken with cranberry sauce
• New potatoes, asparagus and candied carrots

• Specially amazing spring matzah brye with strawberries and whipped cream
• Chocolate cake

Our spring party is our own family’s combination Easter/Passover/Just Plain Spring celebration.  And because it’s all ours, we get to invite whoever we like and do it all our own way (weather permitting).  By coincidence, we’re having it on Easter Sunday this year.  Passover is really ages away, but it feels near to us as Mike and Antonia are counting down time till they head off to the US, for a real Seder amongst other things.