We woke up at the crack of dawn to head out for Easter breakfast at our church. Actually "crack" is an appropriate word as my oldest escaped his bedroom, came bounding in our room and stepped on and broke my glasses. I admit it, I cried. Not only because they are over $500 to replace, but they have been my favorite glasses since getting my first pair practically at birth. Oh well, can't cry over broke frames so I stuck in my contacts and proceeded to enjoy our day.
Upon arriving home we were greeted by tiny footprints that spanned the entire square footage of the home. While we were away Grampy and Grammy had a great time making a path the bunny took while leaving his tooth decay goodies behind. My little guy had a blast following the tracks (cottontail had a bad case of web feet) and piling his basket with treats. Secretly I was removing some and putting it away as he is still young enough to get away with this deceitful trick.
I know it will become increasingly difficult to keep our Easter celebrations innocent and simple but with the help of the whole family I am going to as long as we can.
This week I was returning an item at our local Wally World and was utterly shocked at the amount of toy filled carts streaming by. Since when has Easter rivalled Christmas in terms of gifts and "stuff"?. Growing up we spent the entire morning looking for hidden eggs and often times it took us until early evening to find our basket (my dad thought hiding it in the centre of a massive pipe organ was attainable by an 8 year old). I would not trade these memories for the world. There were no mountains of chocolate, rather the usual bunny, large hallow egg with your name adorning it and numerous small eggs but there were also some trinkets of stickers and bubbles. I continued that theme with our children filling our reusable thrift store baskets with small items of chocolate and the Piece De resistance, "the" bunny. Hopefully continuing this tradition will give Landon and Dane memories that I had, ones of family, simple traditions and OK...some chocolate as well.
6 comments:
I totally agree with you. We don't go overboard for easter I rmember always getting a book and spring stuff bubbles skipping ropes balls. Our boys had a blast too and we hid the majority of the candy and left a litle for snacking and they haven't noticed most of it's gone. I'm not looking forward to when they grow up.
I love the bunny tracks:)
And you are SO right about people going overboard- it's like a second Christmas in a basket! We stayed low-key with a few simple dollar store trinkets, and a small amount of candy- and my kids were quite happy- I quess they don't know any difference(?).
I couldn't agree more. I love my memories also and I hope I can give my children the same wonderful ones. Not those of materialism and commercialism.
Happy Easter!!
we don't buy alot for our kids for easter - but it does make it hard when the easter bunny brings their friends more "stuff" :(
We did Bunny prints all over the house too - in keeping with my own childhood memories/traditions.
I used these prints:
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/bunny_fooprints_printout.html
Blew them up so 1 print was the full size of a piece of paper. Next year I'm going to laminate them to reuse year after year. (last minute thought from this year's cutting and photocopying)
The prints were a huge hit!!!
k-dog thanks for the link, mine kind of resembled duck feet. I am going to get these for next year.
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