Today we bought 21 dozen eggs.

I heard they were only fifty cents a dozen at one of the local Jewel-Osco stores. I passed the news along to my mother, so she went over to investigate. She called me to ask how many I wanted. I thought 20 dozen sounded like a good number.

This afternoon when I went to pick up the eggs, somehow there was an extra dozen, so I took that one too.

Now, what can one do with that many eggs? Lots of things!

For starters, you can tell your son to figure out exactly how many eggs are contained in 21 dozen.

Next you can fill a large pot with as many eggs as fit. Turns out I can put six dozen eggs in my largest pot. It’s interesting how long it takes to bring that many eggs to a boil.

Hopefully tomorrow we’ll make deviled eggs, which I make far too rarely for my husband’s tastes. Maybe after he has more deviled eggs than he can eat, he’ll decide it’s a good thing I don’t make them more often.

One friend suggested I have the children run egg races.

It did occur to me that at this price, one could afford to “egg” something, but I quickly put that idea out of my head. Not a nice thing to do to people!

I think I will let the children decorate some of the hard-boiled eggs. They love to paint eggs, and I didn’t offer that option to them at Easter time, since eggs are so expensive these days.

I’ll update this as I discover more ways to use up lots of eggs.

So, what would you do with 252 eggs?