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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.  [/quote]

Sounds so awesome!  I want to be in your family!  [/quote]

Thanks!  My parents were great role models.  We are a big, loud, boisterous group with strongly held opinions and convictions but growing up my dad always said that we will flex, flex, flex so that all are welcome and all are included.  And wherever we were in the world as children we always had a huge crowd around our Easter table.  We have the hunts because we are as competitive as all get out!  That's what my mom always tells newcomers:  'They're as competitive as all get out so you best get out of the way!'.  Love the 'they'![/quote]

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