Eggs were used as a pagan celebration to welcome spring and early Christians adopted the egg, with a chick emerging, to symbolise the resurrection and new life at Easter. The giving of eggs at easter celebrates a new beginning. The oldest tradition was to give hard-boiled chicken eggs, which had been painted or dyed using natural ingredients like onion skins but the modern custom is to give chocolate eggs. Kizzie is looking forward to Easter Sunday and the end of Lent so that she can eat chocolate eggs all day! Sylvia x