What?? Hot sauce and chicken does not make you think of Easter? Since I met my husband, we have spent every Easter with his family. His grandfather liked a certain chicken joint and loved spending Easter dinner with his family at this place. It was an old diner type restaurant that served “hot sauce” as a side dish. And boy, did my husband and his cousin like this hot sauce. You could order three side dishes with your chicken dinner and all of their sides were usually hot sauce. Then, they would both scout out how much they could get from other people at the table, and my husband would make sure I also ordered it as a side dish so that he could swipe it. They would tell the same stories every year, as most families do during holidays…reminders of old times. I can’t tell you how many times I heard the one liner from a certain story – “line em up and move em out boys”. This was a treasured family outing and one that we will always remember. My husband’s grandfather was a dear, sweet man who went to Heaven about a year and a half ago. So last year, we did not go to this chicken place, but we did still spend the day with my husband’s family – going on an Easter egg hunt around their yard. Bean had a great time, searching for all these eggs and an even better time opening them….(don’t worry, they were plastic and filled with money and candy, not egg yolk). We enjoyed watching Papa count the eggs and realize we STILL had not found them all, as we all went back out to search for eggs that were still missing. This year, will be the first year since I have met my husband that we will not be spending Easter with his family. We are still going to have an Easter egg hunt, in our tiny postage stamp sized backyard (guess we won’t have to worry about “losing” any eggs this way I guess.) Another expat family will be coming over for it. This is the first of many holidays that we will be spending without our families during our time in England. But they will be in our thoughts, prayers and in our hearts all day. We will miss spending the day with you Papa and Ganny, but we will think of you… and the stories of that hot sauce.
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