I know Easter isn’t truly about Easter baskets or dying eggs or chocolate bunnies or any of that stuff.
But we have traditionally dyed eggs and done Easter baskets.
I had a pretty good system going.
I don’t do the second Christmas that so many people do these days with massive baskets overflowing with gifts and enough candy to last until Halloween, but we almost always do something.
We used to make our own Easter baskets out of old boxes and the kids would decorate them and apparently one year I was super crafty and ambitious and glued jelly beans to branches and used them as a centerpiece.
This year I am doing nothing.
We will go to my parents’ house and do an egg hunt outside in their back yard.
We do this every year.
My dad has just as much fun as the kids do.
My parents hide plastic eggs filled with candy and money for the kids (all labeled with their initials so every kids gets the same amount).
They are hidden before we get there.
This year my parents will watch from the porch while the kids find their eggs.
Other than that, we are doing nothing.
I just didn’t have it in me to get it together.
We won’t dye eggs this year.
There will be nothing on the dining room table when the kids come downstairs tomorrow morning.
I made sure I told them this.
I thought they would be disappointed.
But the only thing they said was, “That’s okay! We can’t wait to go to Grammy and Papa’s!”
So maybe this is a good thing.
There are no Easter expectations anymore.
I just wanted to share what we are (not) doing in case you aren’t doing what you normally do for Easter and you are beating yourself up over it or stressing out about it.
Your kids will be okay.
They really will.
I know.
Because mine are just fine.
And maybe this whole situation is showing us that the over-the-top stuff we think we have to do really isn’t necessary at all.
My kids normally do an Easter egg hunt at their grandparents. I bought plastic eggs and candy and my older son (10) offered to stuff the eggs for me, which I gladly accepted. We aren’t dying eggs like we normally do and they seem ok with it! They’re just excited to hunt for the eggs tomorrow (we will actually hide them for the kids, we won’t make them do that part as well 😂).
I am so glad to have found your blog; although our children are grown (26,30,32) so much of what you write reminds me of thoughts I had as they were growing up and the things I found important as a parent. And, well, I’m known for dropping the f-bomb when it fits and I appreciate that you do too. I have worked 35 years first as a high school teacher and now an administrator and your thoughts certainly apply there too! You bring a smile to my face:)