Remember Easter?
I hope so, it was yesterday.
Smart bloggers probably already wrote about this. Me? I like to wait until the day after, until the topic has kind of gone cold and most of the world has moved on and then say, “Hey, what’s the deal with March Madness? Anybody watch any basketball? One Shining Moment!”
Like today’s post, which I wasn’t planning on doing until my friend Diana sent me a photo of a direct mail card she got in her mailbox from a local church. Here is their invitation to Easter Sunday:
My first thought was, “I hope the kids didn’t get the mail that day.” My second thought was, “There better not have been a single Cadbury Creme Egg harmed in the making of that advertisement.”
But I’m weird. It does beg the question though, “Do we hate rabbits on Easter?”
I don’t. I think they’ve pretty awesome as far as woodland creatures go. Our family even briefly considered owning a Flemish Giant rabbit once. (If you don’t know what that is, it’s a rabbit from Flemland and it’s giant. Seems pretty self explanatory.) We could never pull the trigger because ultimately we decided having a giant rabbit in our backyard would be like having a furry yard gnome you had to feed. And the success rate of Flemish Giants learning how to catch a Frisbee is abysmal.
I do however dislike Easter egg hunts. Not because I think they take the focus away from the real meaning of Easter. But because my daughter got taught a painful lesson about life in the last one we were in and I cheated in the one before that. That’s right, I cheated. At the hunt we were at they had hidden a few golden eggs. If your kid got a golden egg they won a huge prize at the end. Kids were pushing and diving for these eggs in a way that made the Hunger Games look tame. I may or may not have stepped on a golden egg and then let my daughter think she found it.
So Easter Egg hunts are bad. Or I am. Probably the latter.
But what’s your take?
Did you hate on any rabbits last weekend? Or did you give your kids Easter baskets and eggs and other pastel items?
