I am the barefoot girl standing in the back row. Mother made me wear a dress, since it was Easter. By the time this photo was made, I’d been playing football with my cousins. Two buttons were missing from my new blouse, finished it only that morning. The hem of my skirt was dragging. Needless to say, Mother was not pleased.
Eater egg hunts with my cousins were a lot more like cage boxing than gentle competitions. I am sure I fit right in. I had more than forty first cousins, mostly wild animals. By the time my aunts and uncles herded them to the scene of the 
crime, they just opened the car doors and all Hell broke loose. Exhausted from defending themselves and the babies on the ride over, it was every man for himself. God help anybody in the way.
They’d rip through the house under the…
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Nutsrok 
I like that picture of you. Though you look quite innocent. I’ll bet you got your pepper after a while… but it did take a while, didn’t it?
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I was having fun. I love the pic, too!
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Ha, that’s why to this day I probably don’t like hunting eggs!!!
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Me either!
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Your posts are wild and wonderful. At this moment I’m glad I had no cousins. Happy Easter!
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I can loan you some,!
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I might like your cousins NOW.
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