Easter is just around the corner and I am hopping on the Hershey’s Bunny Trail and sharing some Easter traditions and memories.
Growing up Easter was so much fun! I got an entire outfit from top to bottom complete with an Easter hat, dress, purse and shoes. It’s kind of funny, we live in the south but usually at Easter it can still be pretty nippy outside. So we would be all dressed up in our Easter spring clothes and wearing a winter coat out hunting eggs freezing our rears off. We would always wake up on Easter morning and the Easter Bunny had came and gone and left a wonderful Easter Basket full of goodies and I have kept that tradition alive with my daughter.
I have to confess. that one year when my daughter was around 3, she got up and ran to the living room and there was no Easter Basket. Oh no, I am such a horrible mom! How in the world could I forget the Easter Bunny???? Somehow I conned her back into her room, ran and grabbed her Easter basket, sat it in the foyer and rang the doorbell, opened and shut the door. Then I called her in and told her the Easter bunny was running behind and just hopped up and left this for her and had to leave quickly because he was soooooooo far behind….all was well, but she never forgot the day the Easter Bunny was late! Geez, I wish she could forget that!
For fun Easter tips, recipes, coloring pages, Easter craft ideas and to follow the Hershey’s Bunny Trail visit CelebrateWithHersheys.com~Reese Cups are a food group at our house and the Easter Basket wouldn’t be the same without some Reese’s Eggs! Yum!
As a mom have you ever made a huge mistake like~Forget the Easter Bunny? Please tell me I am not the only one! What are some of your families Easter Traditions?
Disclosure: I did receive Hershey product for sharing my Easter memories.
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I haven’t done that with the Easter bunny. On year before Christmas my in-laws took my daughter (6 at the time) on a Disney cruise and she lost her tooth, which got lost in the cabin. When she came home she was so disappointed . She said she thought the tooth fairy forgot or wouldn’t come because she lost it. I quickly made up a story and told her that the Tooth fairy cannot travel over water that far away because her wings would get to tired. And that Santa would find her tooth and bring it back to our home and then the tooth fairy would come. Luckily I save all my kids teeth. lololol So We left a letter explaining to Santa about how her tooth came out on the cruise and she lost it. Well low and behold Santa came and he found her tooth. He said it got pushed under the tv in their cabin. lol
At first she was a little skeptical so she examined the tooth. And declared it was indeed her tooth as it looked exactly like the one she lost. I took the one she previously lost on the opposite side of her mouth and replaced it with that tooth. hahahaha The next night we summoned the tooth fairy with fairy dust. (salt with glitter in it.) The tooth fairy left her a special gold tooth fairy dollar. My daughter was satisfied and I was SO RELIEVED!!!
For Easter traditions… We put up a tabletop Easter tree, I have a few trees for various holidays as we decorate for all holidays to a some degree. We also choose a theme. ( see below) My kids decorate it with crystal eggs as well as decorations they make by themselves. All their sandwiches for school are cut in to holiday shapes and their snack is wrapped in some sort of holiday packaging. We have a couple of l charity events we donate time to during this time of year for children’s hospitals and our children help out with that as well.
The main one ends the day before Easter. When we get home we dye eggs , play games and then they go to bed. Easter day we get up and they get their baskets and we have a nice breakfast and go to church. When we return home, they have egg hunts and watch Easter specials and so on. We have a huge Easter supper. I LOVE to cook and every year I pick a different country and make foods and decorations from sed country, This year it will be Sweden. I’m currently looking at diff dishes and I will have my kids help me to choose some. My kids will help prepare some of it and I will tell them how they celebrate Easter in Sweden. Supper will be shared with family and friends and we always have a wonderful time. 
Thank you so much for sharing your traditions. That is a great idea to have a theme and a wonderful learning experience. What a great way to summons the tooth fairy, I love the salt and glitter fairy dust. You are so creative. She will never forget it!
Shelley
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I have to share two funny Easter memories with you and your readers. Growing up in a small German community in Texas, the tradition at Easter was to make an Easter nest of wild flowers outside the back door for the bunny to leave our Easter goodies in. I was about 5, it was Easter Eve, the Easter nest was loaded with fresh picked wild flowers and my dad was mumbling about the wild rabbits and deer eating his freshly planted vegetable garden. I was so excited, I couldn’t sleep. About day break I heard a shotgun blast. It was Daddy scaring the varmits from his garden, but I didn’t know that. I jumped out of bed, ran down the hall, screaming “Wake up, wake up, Daddy has shot the Easter Bunny.” He felt so bad and I was so relieved to learn the truth. I’m 65 and my family still teases me about it.
My second funny story is about my son. It was his first Easter that he actually understood the concept of hunting Easter eggs. Our church’s day school had an Easter egg hunt and he was soooo excited to find those eggs. Driving home, he was standing in the back of my seat as I was driving home. (Remember, these were the days before seat belts!) He hugged my neck and said, “Mommy, I love the Easter Bunny….how does he put peanut butter in ‘dees’ eggs?” With that, he proceeded to bite the hard boiled egg, shell and all and chewed it right near my ear. The peanut butter was actually the hard boiled yoke of the egg…the thought of him chewing those egg shells still sends shivers down my spine. It was like hearing someone scrape their nail over a chalk board. He’s in his 40s now with children of his own, but we still remind him to remove the shell before eating his hard boiled Easter egg.
Those are two of the cutest Easter stories I have heard. Thanks for sharing them….made me smile. Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment.
Shelley