Easter Sunday is Coming and I am the Easter Bunny-just kidding and trying to write a longer title!!

[jujube]

I see all the elaborate Easter baskets at the store. Towering things wrapped in cellophane with toys, etc. inside. I actually saw one at Walmart last week that had a bubble gun that looked like a machine gun (nothing says "The Joy of Easter" quite like violent toys, huh?) My mom had an "Easter basket box" up in the attic that she got down every year. Inside were some rather worn colorful baskets and "grass" that had been used and reused for years until it was pretty pitiful. As I said before, we got some candy, dyed eggs, plastic eggs filled with jellybeans and the sugar "scene" eggs. No toys, no money, nothing else.

On another board, people are outdoing each other bragging about what they are getting their kids for Easter....bicycles, clothes, I-pads, etc. When did Easter become mini-Christmas?

I sent an Easter basket for my new great-granddaughter. It had a little set of bunny ears, a stuffed bunny and plastic eggs stuffed with baby socks (she's a little young for candy and her parents are on a diet).

 

[Butterfly]

I see all the elaborate Easter baskets at the store. Towering things wrapped in cellophane with toys, etc. inside. I actually saw one at Walmart last week that had a bubble gun that looked like a machine gun (nothing says "The Joy of Easter" quite like violent toys, huh?) My mom had an "Easter basket box" up in the attic that she got down every year. Inside were some rather worn colorful baskets and "grass" that had been used and reused for years until it was pretty pitiful. As I said before, we got some candy, dyed eggs, plastic eggs filled with jellybeans and the sugar "scene" eggs. No toys, no money, nothing else.

On another board, people are outdoing each other bragging about what they are getting their kids for Easter....bicycles, clothes, I-pads, etc. When did Easter become mini-Christmas?

I sent an Easter basket for my new great-granddaughter. It had a little set of bunny ears, a stuffed bunny and plastic eggs stuffed with baby socks (she's a little young for candy and her parents are on a diet).

I certainly never heard of giving presents at Easter (with the exceptions of lillies or another flowering plant) -- bikes and I-pads for Easter? Weird. No wonder kids nowdays feel so entitled!

 

[Ruthanne]

I see all the elaborate Easter baskets at the store. Towering things wrapped in cellophane with toys, etc. inside. I actually saw one at Walmart last week that had a bubble gun that looked like a machine gun (nothing says "The Joy of Easter" quite like violent toys, huh?) My mom had an "Easter basket box" up in the attic that she got down every year. Inside were some rather worn colorful baskets and "grass" that had been used and reused for years until it was pretty pitiful. As I said before, we got some candy, dyed eggs, plastic eggs filled with jellybeans and the sugar "scene" eggs. No toys, no money, nothing else.

On another board, people are outdoing each other bragging about what they are getting their kids for Easter....bicycles, clothes, I-pads, etc. When did Easter become mini-Christmas?

I sent an Easter basket for my new great-granddaughter. It had a little set of bunny ears, a stuffed bunny and plastic eggs stuffed with baby socks (she's a little young for candy and her parents are on a diet).

LOL. Yes, nothing says the joy of Easter like violent guns!!