Ouch! The whipping doesn’t sound like too much fun. I propose that next year be opposite day, where it is the women who’ll whip the men, haha!

Personally I’ll stick with dying hard-boiled eggs and hiding candy Easter eggs for the kids to find. One year, I hid them so well that they didn’t find them all, and they kept turning up behind furniture during in-depth house-cleaning months later!

Officially in the US, it is the Easter Bunny that leaves the eggs. It doesn’t make much sense to me since bunnies don’t lay eggs (unless it is a special species I am not aware of).

In France as children, we were told that the church bells had flown to Rome during lent and were flying back the night before Easter to celebrate. And boy, did they ring on Easter morning! So it must have been true, because each one of us found a nice big chocolate egg hidden in the bushes.