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Easter
What do you do with your kids on Easter? More specifically, how far do you feel obligated to go with the festivities?
We happen to have my stepkids on Easter this year for the first time ever. (It usually falls on the second weekend of the month, but this year it's technically the "first weekend" because April 1st was part of the "fifth weekend" in March. ANYWAY...) When I was a kid, we did none of the typical Easter things--no eggs, no baskets, nothing. We went out to a fancy brunch with some family friends, that was our tradition. My husband's family did this very involved thing where instead of an egg hunt their mother hid little rhyming clues around the house that would each lead to the next clue, ultimately leading to their Easter baskets that had plastics-eggs-with-candy and small toys.
He would in theory like to continue his mother's tradition, but things are just so incredibly crazy around here right now--I mentioned in a couple other threads that we just sold our house, and we now have about 2 weeks to find our own new house, buy it, finish packing and move. Hell, we might even be out looking at houses on Easter Sunday. Oh, and my husband screwed up his shoulder pretty badly and is wearing a sling and can't lift the baby at all for who knows how long. So I just don't know if I have it in me to write cutesy poems this week (and let's not fool ourselves, despite it being his family's tradition he's so busy with work right now that I'll have to do it or it won't get done.) On the other hand, in a lot of ways it would be easier than physically hiding eggs outside. But my dad's still having his yearly fancy brunch, and I'd rather just go to that and be done with it, since we'll have to eat that day anyway. But does that make me a bad parent? Mr. Clodfobble says I was denied my childhood because of my lack of Easter egg hunts, among other things.
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