Easter is such a confusing holiday, I don't think they thought it through very well. You've got a rabbit that lays eggs, and somehow does so in back yards all over the world without the help of a sleigh, flying reindeer, or even fertility drugs.
Then you've got the whole egg coloring tradition. You boil eggs and dye them different colors, stare at them in amazement, and then... what? Put them back in the fridge and make deviled eggs? Now I love me some deviled eggs. But if that's going to be the end result, shouldn't the insides be colored instead? Now that would be festive!
And the Easter baskets. We don't even make the kids work for it anymore, we just hand them a basket full of toys and goodies. No wonder we've got a generation of obese kids with an unfounded sense of entitlement! In my day we had to work for that loot. Just ask my sister, who spent one Easter having thorns plucked from her backside after trying to retrieve an egg from a patch of barrel cacti.
I don't get the fancy clothes either. What's the purpose of putting my daughter in a poofy dress and my son in a suit and tie? Don't get me wrong, I am putting Jessamine in a poofy dress, and I can't find Max's tie but he'll be dressed to the 8's at least. Can't have them being the only kids not ruining their lovely new clothes with cupcake frosting and Hi-C at the big Easter party in Children's Church on Sunday.
Easter will be like a dream come true for my kids. They'll wake up to fantasical baskets full of such wondrous goodies as new underwear and sidewalk chalk. After a nutritious breakfast of marshmallow Peeps and egg-shaped chocolates, we will head to church, where they will celebrate the miracle of eternal salvation via cookies and juice boxes and the afore mentioned cupcakes. Then we'll head to my aunt's house for brunch, where there will undoubtedly be more Easter treats.
And then? Naptime!
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Naptime for you, maybe...the kids will be bouncing off the walls. Mine have jellybeans for breakfast, then off to church. They have to wait all the way until 1:30 for the big Easter Egg Hunt, which gives them a little time for their blood sugar to return to normal. After the hunt, however, it's hopeless.
I'm sort of looking forward to some jellybeans myself.
I didn't realize how commercialized Easter was until I became a parent.
We always dyed eggs and had a small family easter egg hunt the Saturday before Easter. We were also each given a hollow chocolate bunny but that was the extent of our commercialized Easter celebration.
We've decided to make it even simpler. We dyed eggs tonight and we'll hide them for the kids to find tomorrow. No toys or candy or even mention of the Easter Bunny.
Our goal is to keep the focus on Christ, so we have an Easter book and video we'll watch on Sunday as a family.
What is this thing called naptime that you speak of?
I am getting old and forgetfull. Can you tell me about my daughters backside being a cactus recepticle? It must have ben at Sky Valley, but I do not remember.
DeDad
Hey Marie, check out this history of Easter. It is pretty interesting.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/19144/the_origin_and_history_of_the_easter.html
dad. ya, it was sky vally, i remember that too. easter to me back then was like disnyland. parents all got tired and some kid ended up crying.
Dad- You mean for once I remember something that you forgot? Yes, it was Sky Valley, they decided to let the older kids hide the eggs for the younger kids that year. They were spread out all over the valley floor, in cacti, in snake holes, in ditches, etc. Dozens of wind-blown little kids with their tights shredded and bonnets wilted and hair tangled into nests. They decided to have the grown-ups do it after that.
It was the Sky Valley church, out in front by that big stone fish thing. It wasn't a barrel cactus, it was a cholla. The geniuses hiding candy and eggs had put some of them ON THE CACTUS. I think I was about 7 or 8. There was a bag of candy on a giant cactus that was almost as tall as I was, and I went to grab it but Amy Peterson got it before I could. So I turned around to go after another one, slipped on some gravel, and fell backwards into the giant cactus. Everyone was so kind to give me all their hard boiled eggs, but NO ONE gave up any of their candy. Stingy bastards.
Pretty soon they brought in bulldozers and took out all the cacti.
I don't think I was ever excited about an easter egg hunt again. Kinda sucks the fun out of it when Grandma is hanging over your bed with a sympathetic look on her face, saying, "Oh, poor thing- did they get all of them out of your butt? Hmmm?"
And it's even more fun a week later finding that one easter egg that got hidden too well...
We started celebrating Easter a bit early at our house. I couldn't resist the Reese's peanut butter eggs another second longer and you know what happens when you open something....all the kids crowd around with their beaks open waiting for you, the mama bird, to fill it up.
I lurked here last week. You almost have me convinced that I can make a pumpkin roll cake by myself. Almost.
you found that church just in time for Easter!!
-Gladis
Happy Easter!
Happy, blessed Easter, Marie, Brad, Max, Jessamine and Baby-to-be-named later!
We've finally graduated from presents in the Easter baskets. Instead, right now we're at the Waterpark of America with our kids because that was their gift this year. Yep. Graduated from the little presents in the baskets all right.
We do dye and hide eggs, but otherwise we only celebrate Christ's resurrection.
Yeah, I like to avoid commercialization, but I also really don't want to try to explain an egg-laying bunny!
hey how come no happy birthday to Seth on here? he is 7 can you believe it?
I think I'm a party pooper when it comes to Easter and other holidays. Maybe I'm just getting old, but we just don't celebrate it with the commercial stuff.
I mean, my kids don't even know what an Easter basket is. But they DO know the real reason for Easter, and it's not the Easter bunny!
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