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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I don't mean to pile on but your post is incongruous and your follow up is making problems where there are none.

For example, if they are so young they won't know the difference between a pile of gifts and $100 of gifts,  then they are also going enough not to remember next year that they got gifts. A 2 year old and 9 month old especially.

But then you are going to put them in their baskets? So then by your line of thinking they will expect big Easter baskets.

And you don't know when you'll find the time to open them? 
Easter is on a Sunday, surely two adults can find 5 minutes for kids to open gifts.

I know you dislike MIL, trust me mine is no peach, but don't lower yourself to also being crazy about managing Easter as the "Only basket no boxes " DIL or the "philandering pseudo Bunny" or something [/quote]

I agree they won't remember, but I guarantee she'll send a similar sized box next year, and the year after, and the year after. I'd like to come up with a solution now.

True, they would come to expect more than just candy in their baskets, but in my mind, Easter baskets are part of Easter, piles of wrapped gifts are not. It must just be the way I was raised. I don't know what I'm so afraid of. I guess it just irritates me that my idea of Easter (wake up to a basket with a some candy and maybe a small toy, get dressed up, go to church, do a hunt, eat a special meal and treats, call it a day) would be altered by the addition of "open pile of gifts from grandparents".  But PP who said I'm now married with children so I should get used to it is probably right.

I don't get the "philandering pseudo Bunny" reference.  Can you explain?[/quote]

PP here, just trying to inject a little humor, I'm not even sure now what I was going for?! 
I think you're doing a great job trying to reconcile your Easter vision with the reality of marrying into another family from your responses. You may have to let this go for the sake of family dynamics.
I don't know if you are religous or not, but I try to remind myself that "at least I'm not being nailed to a cross to die", and that helps keep things in perspective. (At Christmas, it's "at least I'm not riding on the back of a donkey at 40 weeks pregnant", but you get the gist)[/quote]

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