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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree you need to stop doing so much. You know what we had for Easter dinner? I actually don't even know myself. I'm 99% sure it was leftovers but I don't even know because this wasn't a year we could handle a big fancy dinner. We've done everything from fast food to having people over for a nice dinner on Easter, depending on the year.

Your kid should be old enough to make the goody bags. [/quote]

These are related to your anxiety, by the way. You need to be able to manage and not catastrophize if you miss or mess up Easter dinner, have plain unlabeled gifts, skip goody bags, etc.

You seem to be making all things equal priority, which causes anxiety because it's too much and and then you "fail" in your mind at almost all if them. Whereas having worked very hard to reform myself of the mindset that everything matters equally, I prioritized a couple of aspects of Easter that were important to me and didn't have a hunt or special meal or a number of other things. What this allows me to do is be in the moment and not stressed out to experience the few chosen things because I'm not trying to do everything.[/quote]

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