Let's try something fun!!! EASTER!!!!!
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Let's try something fun!!! EASTER!!!!!
| Thu, 04-10-2003 - 11:13am |
What are your family traditions for Easter, and what do you put in your kids Easter baskets, including how old the kids are? Do your kids know the Easter Bunny isn't real? If so, what age where they and how did they find out?
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Son was harder to shop for b/c I can NEVER find anything at Dollar Tree for boys. :( So I went to Walmart and got him some spring things. He got one of those bubble containers that are supposed to be spill proof, some goggles for the pool this year (the boy goes through more of those than you can imagine!), a beach ball, some dominos (he is obsessed with mine!), this sports thing with two paddles for kids to play catch with the accompanied ball, and a Yu-Gi-Oh toy as the "central toy". Daughter and the other two girls each got a Care Bear (something they have all been wanting) as their "central toy".
My grandmother will provide a couple of candy things for each of them, but we try not to do much because we hunt plastic eggs filled with candy.
We spend the night before Easter at my grandparents and go to church with them the next morning. Of coarse the kids wake up to their Easter baskets, though. :) After church, we come home and slowly the rest of the family shows up. This includes my aunts and uncles, cousins (there are a bunch of us), etc. This year, two of my friends who are military families will be joining us b/c this is their first year here, and they have no family here. One of them has her husband gone to school for 6 weeks, so she won't be here at all. And I think my sister might join us with her son (she isn't related to this side of the family, as it is my biomoms family). So, there will be 11 kids to hunt eggs, ages 1, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, & 10. Then after the kids empty their plastic eggs of all their candy, my uncle and hubby hide the empty plastic eggs in HARD to find places, and us older cousins go hunt them...lol....we never find them all, and they can't remember where they put them all so my grandpa finds them throughout the year...giggle.
Lunch is always sandwiches, potato salad, chips, and TONS of desserts. :) All in all, one of my favorite holidays!
Okmrsmommy-36, CPmom to DD-16 and DS-14
We're not a religous family. We believe in God, Christ, all that, but don't attend church. And, because of that, we don't want to make a big stink about Easter. Dd knows the true meaning (did a project on it this year in school), etc. We recognize the importance of the day, but don't do a special church service, special dresses, etc.
AT the same time, since we DO respect religion, even though we don't "practice" one, it also seems wrong to place all the emphasis on the Easter bunny and eggs. That's a false meaning of the holiday. However, its fun. And there's no reason not to let the kids have some harmless fun.
So, I dunno what we're gonna do. Seems hypocritical somehow to do baskets adn all that stuff. I don't want to do it "just because" that's what everyone else does and that's what society says we should do. If I do it, I want to do it for a reason. And right now, I don't have a reason.
The city has a big egg hunt we'll probably take the kids to. But we'll do that because its a good fun opportunity for the kids. Not because its Easter. (in other words, if the city sponsored a big egg hunt in July, we'd do it then too ... lol)
Any comments, thoughts for me?
Hollie
We are going to do baskets for the first time.
Since we have a wedding out of town the day before, we'll do church on Easter evening.
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Anyway, it has become tradition for us to attend my grandparents church every Easter b/c we spend the night before with them (even though they are only 20 minutes away). This is pretty much the same congregation I grew up with, though there are more people now because the church I grew up in, and this one merged a couple years ago. But this church (religion?) doesn't celebrate Easter as a religious holiday. Their opinion is that there is no way to know the DATES of things like Christs birth and resurection so it isn't right to make a big deal out of it on our "estimated" dates. That is silly to me but whatever. :) So our family celebrates Easter more as a family holiday than a religious one.
However, my daughter just turned 6 in January, and actually said to me the other day, "now, mom, is the Easter bunny real or just a costume?". lol...after I spit out my iced tea, I answered her honestly, and we discussed the entire holiday, including Christ, etc. So, now that the kids are getting older, and will be learning more about the holiday from a Christian perspective, we might have to change our plans a little...who knows.
Okmrsmommy-36, CPmom to DD-16 and DS-14
I tend to get a little excessive with holidays...lol...always have. We started baskets with the kids at one year, though daughters first basket just included a book, some hair bows, and I think some shoes. She was only 3 months though...giggle.
Okmrsmommy-36, CPmom to DD-16 and DS-14
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In reality... Hide the eggs, we usually get some of those gold dollar coins and glue them to some of the eggs so it's fun for the older kids. (relatives!) Easter basket with candy, a stuffed animal of some sort... got to have a chocolate orange. Yummy dinner, probably ham.. that's all I can think of!
Okmrsmommy-36, CPmom to DD-16 and DS-14
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We go to our regular church that we attend every Sunday, and fight the C&E crowd (the people who only show up on Christmas and Easter), then come home and eat ham, asparagus, new potatoes, hot cross buns, coconut cake, whatever spring-time foods we feel like making. Weather permitting, we have had Easter egg hunts, but that's more DH's thing than mine.
My dad is the king of Easter baskets. When I was a kid, he made them for all of us kids, and one for himself, hid them and then put on a big show of finding his. This continued until I was at least 22. The more recent Easters that we have spent at my parents' house, he has hidden baskets for whichever grandchildren are there, but he doesn't do one for himself anymore.
My kids aren't big candy eaters (shocking), so they get other stuff like toys, books, CD's, hobby supplies, whatever they are interested in at that point. If I give them candy, I make sure it's something I like, since I know who is going to end up eating most of it.
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