What did you do for Easter after your kids stopped believing in the Easter Bunny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I send Easter baskets to my college kids and to my young adult kids.

Glad I'm not the only one!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you could get them a nice spring outfit (other than easter outfit), book ( we got a stuffed animal each year, bunnies and lambs ),or little things for the outdoors that they can use as the weather gets nicer, like a soccer ball, butterfly net, jump rope, etc.

Afterthoughts on some other things I got at easter: hair ribbons, head bands, baretts, earrings, slippers, spring pajamas or robe.

For a boy: baseball cap, sport jersey, water gun, outdoor /backyard game (check at sporting goods store, maybe darts or something).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you could get them a nice spring outfit (other than easter outfit), book ( we got a stuffed animal each year, bunnies and lambs ),or little things for the outdoors that they can use as the weather gets nicer, like a soccer ball, butterfly net, jump rope, etc.

Afterthoughts on some other things I got at easter: hair ribbons, head bands, baretts, earrings, slippers, spring pajamas or robe.

For a boy: baseball cap, sport jersey, water gun, outdoor /backyard game (check at sporting goods store, maybe darts or something).

Ugh. This crap annoys me. Why would a girl not want a baseball cap or sports jersey a water gun or an outdoor backyard game? My daughter LOVES that stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you could get them a nice spring outfit (other than easter outfit), book ( we got a stuffed animal each year, bunnies and lambs ),or little things for the outdoors that they can use as the weather gets nicer, like a soccer ball, butterfly net, jump rope, etc.

Afterthoughts on some other things I got at easter: hair ribbons, head bands, baretts, earrings, slippers, spring pajamas or robe.

For a boy: baseball cap, sport jersey, water gun, outdoor /backyard game (check at sporting goods store, maybe darts or something).

Ugh. This crap annoys me. Why would a girl not want a baseball cap or sports jersey a water gun or an outdoor backyard game? My daughter LOVES that stuff.

So have at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you could get them a nice spring outfit (other than easter outfit), book ( we got a stuffed animal each year, bunnies and lambs ),or little things for the outdoors that they can use as the weather gets nicer, like a soccer ball, butterfly net, jump rope, etc.

Afterthoughts on some other things I got at easter: hair ribbons, head bands, baretts, earrings, slippers, spring pajamas or robe.

For a boy: baseball cap, sport jersey, water gun, outdoor /backyard game (check at sporting goods store, maybe darts or something).

Ugh. This crap annoys me. Why would a girl not want a baseball cap or sports jersey a water gun or an outdoor backyard game? My daughter LOVES that stuff.

I wrote, "for a boy:"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I send Easter baskets to my college kids and to my young adult kids.

+1 I'm glad I'm not the only one!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My youngest no longer believes in the Easter Bunny so we won't have an egg hunt this year. We don't do church, so I'm wondering what else there is to make it special? What do other families do?

Ha? Since when is the Easter is about bunnies? I am an atheist, but always told my kids what is the easter is about. We even went to some Easter services in church when we traveled. Why would you twist the facts in the child's mind?

[Anonymous]

Chocolate is appropriate for all ages.

[Anonymous]

The kids still enjoy the egg hunts although they don't believe in the Easter bunny anymore. We do Easter baskets but mostly candy and maybe a family movie to share. I'm not big on going all out for Easter with lots of gifts. It's more about the candy and I don't think that's bad.

[Anonymous]

Not religious - just depends what the kids feel like doing each year. My kids love to dye eggs and have gotten so much better over the years. We usually have a small chocolate bunny - and they still like like idea of a egg hunt but we've made it harder and turn it into more of a scavenger hunt with riddles they have to solve. We don't have family in town and there are years we forget its even Easter and then only discover it when try to go shopping and everything is closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And that is one of the reasons my kids never believed in Easter Bunny. Hence no problem. We celebrate the rebirth of Chris.

Why comment on an activity when you don't participate in it and it doesn't affect you?

[Anonymous]

At this point no one in our family has children young enough to still believe in the Easter Bunny and, heck, a third of the group isn't even Christian but we never let little things like the details get in the way of a good time so we celebrate Eastover in honor of our Catholic and Jewish contingents.

Everyone gets an Easter basket. Children's baskets have candy. Tween and teen baskets have a chocolate bunny and then kid specific stocking-stuffer types of things. All adults also get a basket with a bunny and person specific stocking-stuffer items.

We have 2 Easter egg hunts: 1 for the kids and 1 for the adults. The kids hunt for eggs. The winner of the kid hunt gets a trophy. The trophy is a banged-up messy 20-year-old thing with a hand-made sign affixed to it declaring the kid to be the winner of the XXX Family Easter Egg Hunt and it is highly, highly coveted. The winner gets to keep it for a year and then brings it back for the next Easter Egg Hunt to present it to the new winner.

The adult hunt is killer and you have to be 12 or over (confirmed or bar/bat mitzvahed). There is big money in the hunt and last year's winner made $201 because he not only got the highest value egg (one egg at $50) but he found the Lucky Double egg that doubles the value of your highest egg.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point no one in our family has children young enough to still believe in the Easter Bunny and, heck, a third of the group isn't even Christian but we never let little things like the details get in the way of a good time so we celebrate Eastover in honor of our Catholic and Jewish contingents.

Everyone gets an Easter basket. Children's baskets have candy. Tween and teen baskets have a chocolate bunny and then kid specific stocking-stuffer types of things. All adults also get a basket with a bunny and person specific stocking-stuffer items.

We have 2 Easter egg hunts: 1 for the kids and 1 for the adults. The kids hunt for eggs. The winner of the kid hunt gets a trophy. The trophy is a banged-up messy 20-year-old thing with a hand-made sign affixed to it declaring the kid to be the winner of the XXX Family Easter Egg Hunt and it is highly, highly coveted. The winner gets to keep it for a year and then brings it back for the next Easter Egg Hunt to present it to the new winner.

The adult hunt is killer and you have to be 12 or over (confirmed or bar/bat mitzvahed). There is big money in the hunt and last year's winner made $201 because he not only got the highest value egg (one egg at $50) but he found the Lucky Double egg that doubles the value of your highest egg.

Sounds so awesome! I want to be in your family!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And that is one of the reasons my kids never believed in Easter Bunny. Hence no problem. We celebrate the rebirth of Chris.

My DH, Chris, thanks you for your kind thoughts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And that is one of the reasons my kids never believed in Easter Bunny. Hence no problem. We celebrate the rebirth of Chris.

Why comment on an activity when you don't participate in it and it doesn't affect you?

Because she does participate in it, she clearly wrote they celebrate Easter.