Perspective: The revered (and very messy) Easter tradition you might not have heard about
By Theresa Vargas Theresa Vargas Local columnist who previously wrote for the local enterprise team about poverty, race and people with disabilities. Email Bio Follow Columnist April 20 at 7:30 AM Laura Schaefer has already warned her neighbors: It’s going to get messy.
That’s the nature of cascarones, confetti-filled eggs that children crack over one another’s heads, ideally to squeals and laughter. When they do it right, there is chasing and strategy, and everyone ends up the same: sweaty and covered in brightly colored flecks that capture the mood. Which recipes do we keep and cook every year? What music sparks nostalgia? Which traditions matter most to us?It is the prick of an eggshell against my palm after an egg landed perfectly against one of my relative’s scalps. It is the itch of paper sticking to me even after I thought I shook it all off.
The truth is, you may have to look a little harder in the D.C. region, but cascarones are here, and for those who have carried the tradition with them, they are revered. Her oldest son, Landon, is 5 and has grown up with the tradition, and now her two youngest sons, 3-year-old twins Brady and Caleb, are finally old enough to enjoy it, too.
“It’s like a thread,” she said. “You don’t want it to be cut off. I think it’s important that it connects us.”
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