Aack! Easter is THIS Sunday!
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Aack! Easter is THIS Sunday!
| Thu, 04-13-2006 - 12:12pm |
I must be living in a fog! I didn't completely grasp, until last night, that Easter is THIS Sunday! We got called to usher for Easter services last night and that was when it finally hit me. I've not made any plans or preparations for the holiday. I haven't even bought a ham!
Does anyone else still do Easter baskets for their kids? DH says I shouldn't bother; the kids are older now and I shouldn't be doing this sort of thing for them anymore. ??? Hard to imagine me NOT doing this stuff, but I'm really going to have to scramble to get something together.
Any suggestions or ideas?
Edited 4/13/2006 12:13 pm ET by hydrangea_blue

DS13 says all he wants is for us to hide ALL the plastic eggs we have (about 90) - he doesn't care about a basket or if all the eggs are empty! He just likes the hunt. I asked if maybe I could hide just one egg in a real hard place...he wasn't thrilled with that idea...
Sue
I know what you mean! I went to Walgreens to pick up something else and saw all the Easter stuff and nearly fainted. I'm usually way ahead on things like this. So I wound up Easter shopping for dd's baskets. They would never let me hear the end of it if I didn't dress them a basket every year - and no, I don't think you're ever too old for Easter baskets! LOL.
While I was browsing the candy isle, I came across a stuffed bunny that was actually a basket with little handles. It is so soft and cute and when you press it's tail is says, "Some bunny loves you" - I got that for H. My girls have had the same baskets thier whole lives so we'll pull them out and put in the 'grass' and I will fill them Saturday night and leave them at the foot of thier beds for morning. H and I STILL even have to hide the eggs! I combine the real dyed eggs and plastic eggs filled with dollar coins or candy. We will dye the eggs Saturday night, all of us; I have to buy about 3 dozen now because the BF's join us now!
Can you believe we're still doing Easter egg hunts with 16 and 18 year olds? I never would have believed it. My mother stopped giving us Easter baskets by the time I hit 13 I think. Then it just became a 'community Easter basket". LOL
We're going to dd's BF's house for dessert on Sunday. I will bring a pie and an Easter Lily.
Yes, Julie, I've been in denial myself! I still do an Easter basket for dd (I use the same basket each year.. a friend made it for her when she was a baby) and this year I am excited to do one for K. We've never gone overboard with the contents ... usually some chocolate, gummie bears in the non-braces years and a little something. The little something varied over the years - a book, a small stuffed bunny, lip gloss, earing, but usually just one non-edible thing each year. I did a little more this year becausse she's watching her weight. We have some chocolate, some tiny things of nail polish, bubbles (the kid you blow - i think K will get a kick out of that) and a jumprope (nice ones). I also bought K a Kelly Clarkson cd and dd a Carrie Underwood CD.
As to the dinner, it's just going to be dd, dh, K, MIL and myself. I'm doing a beef tenderloin and a corn casserole that my MIL loves. Don't know w hat else yet.
If I were you, I'd just run out to walmarts or some place like that and grab a few things.
jt
Also - K brought us some chocolate eggs from Germany to hide. I hope we find them before the dog does....
I'm not living in a fog, but definitely in a cloud (quite a few of them, actually). This weather is starting to affect my sensibilities. It's worse for me, because I was fully aware that THIS Sunday was Easter, and still here I sit with nothing to show for my early awareness. I WAS going to get my teenagers engraged Bibles for Easter, but it's a little too late for that now...ya think?
I know we need the rain (the hillsides might disagree); we might not even have a fire season this summer at this rate which is a good thing; blah, blah, blah. I want some sun - NOW! I live in California, not Washington. I wish someone would tell the weatherman that. LOL.
Julie, are you still going to school? If I recall, you were working on your degree...
I was going to join a church once that seemed to be pleasant and friendly. It appeared very warm and inviting....Then....they handed me an enraged bible.
I couldn't run out of their fast enough....
Sorry.... Couldn't resist.. :-)
Another thing I am not alone in -- do brain cells die off the older we get? I just came back from a quick doctor visit. (DS and I did our volunteer time at the cat shelter yesterday and a couple of the cats mistook my arm for a chew toy and scratching post. In just a few hours, one of the tooth punctures was red, hot and hurt like the dickens so I wanted an antibiotic to ward off any cat carried infections.)
Anyway, I stopped at our local drug store to fill the prescription and hit up the Easter goody aisle while I waited. And ... viola! iTunes gift cards right at the check-out! How convenient is that? Okay, only DD has an iPod, so I'll have to find a non-candy something for DS later today.
The local Kiwana club hosts a pancake breakfast every Easter Sunday at the elementary school, so I'll put that on our after church agenda, which ALMOST gets me off the hook. We don't have any family in the area and no real friends, sooooo, maybe we'll head to the tennis court after the pancake breakfast to fill up some time. And I still have a day or two to get a ham, dye some eggs and maybe make a pasta salad?
mom_dragonfly ... I was enrolled in classes last semester but dropped them due to my run-in with that Epstein-Barr guy. I had barely enough energy and could hardly stay awake long enough to keep up with my family, let alone the classes and homework. However ... I have plans to get back over to the campus and re-register once all this spring break business is finished. DS had these past two weeks, DD has next week. Kind of a bummer. Tomorrow and the weekend are the only days we all have off together :-(.
I hope you all get your Easter business out of the way too. Even though the kids are older, I still go through all the motions with Christmas, Easter, etc., as if they were still little. Could I be in denial about them getting older too? tee hee ... not me ....
Sounds like your Easter is well under control.
And yes... we do lose brain cells as we age.
Case in point: my previous post on this thread :-)
I'm so sorry they gave you an "enraged" Bible; that's the worst kind there is! ROFL...
Easter came up on me pretty quick too. I still haven't bought anything for dinner or baskets (we're having some improvements done on our farm and I've been having a hard time shuffling horses around to work with the construction crew, plus DH has been putting in extra overtime this week). I want to do an Easter egg hunt for my 2 year old this year, but I haven't put a lot of thought into it (something tells me I'll be up really late tomorrow night). I still do an Easter basket for DSS (14), mainly because we do one for DS (2) and I don't want DSS to feel left out. I think everyone should have something for Easter morning, regardless of their age!
Jane
I still make an easter basket for my kids and the triplets are 16 and the youngest is 13. I still get out their Easter baskets too and fill it with treats and money. We are not really breakfast people, but I will make an early dinner, which we usually end up making as a family. My brother-in-law and family is coming for church and the meal.
Stephanie