First time in decade, Sweet Home egg Hunt moved indoors
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The youngest group of egg hunters at the Sweet Nursing Home annual Easter egg hunt, moves across the dining hall grabbing eggs filled with candy and prizes. Nursing home employees hid about 2,000 eggs in the hallways, dining hall and chapel. It was the first time the egg hunt was ever held inside.
Chalk up another local event that succumbed to the hard winter. The annual Easter egg hunt sponsored by the Sweet Memorial Nursing Home (SMNH) had to be held indoors. Jenni Pula, Administrator at the local facility, said, "This is the first time since we've been doing the Easter egg hunt that we moved it inside. Thursday, when I saw the weather forecast for single digit temperatures overnight and possible snow for Saturday, we decided not to expose the kids to those harsh conditions."
While employees scurried to "hide" eggs in the hallways, chapel and cafeteria, one helper admitted, "It's pretty hard to hide Easter eggs in a hallway." For the littlest kids, the one to three year old group, there were plenty of challenges in the cafeteria. One mom said, "My little boy wasn't too interested in picking up eggs until one broke open and he say there was candy and prizes inside. That got him very interested in finding eggs." A few obvious first time hunters were relying on moms to get the idea of how the hunt worked.
No one is exactly sure when the annual egg hunt began. Sandra Sorensen, who has worked at the nursing home for 18 years, said, "I think the egg hunt began about 11 years ago. Mryla Hamilton and I were working in activities when we started the hunt." Pula said she and her helpers used "all 2,000" plastic eggs to give the kids plenty of opportunities to find eggs.
