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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand. YOU want to do a totally optional egg hunt. Why does he have to do the shopping for it? This is your project, right?[/quote]

Maybe OP wants to do it for her kids. Maybe her kids really want to do it. I don't think it's fair for OP to expect her husband to care about this, but I do think it's fair to expect him to participate.

However, I did the entirety of our kids' Easter baskets this year from start to finish. I like doing, my husband doesn't care, and we have all girls, so I'm better able to come up with ideas. I could, of course, have said to him that I want him to participate, in which case he would have, but I didn't mind doing it alone. I can't tell if OP is asking for participation because she's busy and truly can't do it all (which I get, I work full-time and have time-consuming hobbies), or if she's just made on principle that he wouldn't do it. Those are two different problems.[/quote]

How over the top are these Easter baskets? My husband helps but the problem then becomes trying to balance the baskets because now one kid has more than the others. So his help sometimes creates more work. Easter baskets shouldn't be that involved that they require 2 adults. [/quote]

I don't think they were over the top and I agree with you that I didn't need my husband's involvement to get them done, although I did get stuff from multiple places because I try to shop locally so I could have given him a task or two if I wanted to divide it up. If I had been putting candy in eggs (which I didn't, because our kids are in middle school and the egg hunt days are in the past now), I would have just ordered some with the groceries. So I think OP made a bigger deal out of this than necessary and I also think she shouldn't have pushed the issue the way she did after his first response to the idea. I don't think ultimately the Easter baskets are the problem though, I think they're just a symptom. [/quote]

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