Early Easter morning, Kiran awoke to find her Easter basket in the den.
"Hey Kiran! Show us what you got in your Easter basket!"
Will she hurt me for that one later in life?
So that paint with water book (which I'm realizing we haven't used since Easter morning) was the only thing in her Easter basket other than eggs. I'm a fan of Santa. I enjoy doing it for my kids and I have fond memories of that tradition as a child. But I'm kinda ambivalent about the Easter Bunny. Our compromise this year was we just said she had gotten an Easter basket and we didn't reference who it was from. That was enough for her 2.5 year old brain. What are you feelings on the Easter Bunny, et al? What Easter traditions do you have- including or excluding the Easter Bunny? I feel like we really need to make up our minds by the time next Easter rolls around.
At my house growing up, the Easter Bunny would hide our baskets and we would have to find them. In the oven, the dryer, or way way up high on the bookshelf were some of the best places.
So that paint with water book (which I'm realizing we haven't used since Easter morning) was the only thing in her Easter basket other than eggs. I'm a fan of Santa. I enjoy doing it for my kids and I have fond memories of that tradition as a child. But I'm kinda ambivalent about the Easter Bunny. Our compromise this year was we just said she had gotten an Easter basket and we didn't reference who it was from. That was enough for her 2.5 year old brain. What are you feelings on the Easter Bunny, et al? What Easter traditions do you have- including or excluding the Easter Bunny? I feel like we really need to make up our minds by the time next Easter rolls around.
At my house growing up, the Easter Bunny would hide our baskets and we would have to find them. In the oven, the dryer, or way way up high on the bookshelf were some of the best places.
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My parents always made us some awesome Easter Baskets and they would be sitting on the fireplace when we woke up :) We would wake up, open our baskets and empty out all the eggs and do an egg hunt that morning :) Then we would go to church and come home and hunt eggs all afternoon :)
For us, we will tell our kids about Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, etc. BUT we won't tell them that they're real or make them think that way. It will be confusing for them anyway living in a land full of mythical gods and crazy stories - I want them to always know that the stories and things we tell them are true. That's what we've decided... but whatever other people do is cool with me too :) That's just what we've decided is good for us :)
That picture of Kiran is priceless. I think that may be one to use at her rehearsal dinner slide show the night before she gets married.
We did the Easter Bunny thing with Micah. Obviously, since she's 12 now, we're past that stage. Looking back, it didn't cause any confusion when she learned the truth. Maybe that's because we still focused so much on the real reason for Easter? She got saved on Easter weekend, so that was awesome. With Nathan, I'm planning to use the "Resurrection Eggs" with his Easter basket as he gets older. I found a website where you can make them yourself and not have to buy them. I kind of like the idea of the Easter Bunny bringing and telling the story of Christ. That makes him seem more like a messenger of what's really important instead of him (the bunny) being the focus.
That's a good question, one we need to figure out! I like the idea of giving an Easter basket, but I don't like how somehow, Easter became another Christmas. A friend of mine was saying it's like that in her family, too. So since Hazel already got two baskets from the grandparents, we didn't even give her one this year! We'll have to decide next year what to do. :)
The picture of Kiran is hilarious!!
o my word, what a face! that has "blackmail" written all over it. :)
She really might hate you in the future for that picture! Too funny. We did a basket this year. With a coloring book, sticker, and a play short/shirt set. We didn't bring it up before, she just found it when she woke up. And we never referenced the bunny. It was just a little treat. I feel it is okay to do Santa, the Easter bunny, whatever as long as they know the Truth. Don't make the characters the focus. They pick up on what is really important when we make it the priority. I am still working on my Easter blogs as well...next up, Easter story cookies.
I like andrea's take on it. tell the stories, and embrace them for what they are - stories. fun holiday traditions, not faith-filled TRUTH. :)
I don't think I EVER "believed" in the bunny growing up (though I did santa, when I was young). We had fun with it though - egg hunts and baskets and the works. nathan is too young now to know or care about the easter bunny, so we haven't mentioned it at all. we did eat chocolate bunnies, though. with no shame.
I kind of get santa - nice man named nick, made toys for kids as a way of honoring Jesus' love for children... but I don't know anything about the easter bunny or where that tradition came from. I don't think I get it.
cute picture!!
I could've written your post. I feel the exact same way about Santa and have no feelings about the Easter bunny, so we did the same thing as you - called it an Easter basket and never even mentioned a bunny. We also realized that we've got to make up our minds by next Easter. So since you're already on it, I'll just let you decide what's best and we'll copy whatever you do. :)
Natalie that cracked me up. I'll let you know what we decide.
The Easter Bunny would leave us little treasures in our baskets that we would look at on Sunday morning. He also hid eggs in the yard (empty eggs) and we would go find them before church. My sisters and I are all grown up and we still have a throw-down egg hunt every year.
A friend of ours does an easter egg hunt and all the eggs have items in them that go with the verses of the easter story in the bible. Then the kids have to put them in the order of the story.. The way they do it is really neat and makes easter more about the true meaning.
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