An Easter question About This Page:

[chezp]

Believe it or not, Easter's not that far away now and the shops over here already have their Easter eggs out. Do you give Easter eggs or send cards?

Mark and I usually buy eggs for each other and we often get a small one each from his mom, while I tend to send cards to those that we don't see very often, such as my parents, grandmother and some family friends.

[loobyoxlip]

Most of my family lives around here, so I don't usually send cards. The boys always get a filled chocolate egg with their names on them. They also got their Betta fish for Easter from my aunt when they were younger. My aunt likes to buy them stuff for EVERY holiday, though

[GATechGal]

We color and hide eggs. And I ususally do an Easter basket with stuff in it (this year the Incrediables and National Treasure are out just in time). Oh and I saw the cutest thing at Claires with DD this morning. Squishy pillows shaped like PEEPS! I might have to break down and go buy them.

[snoozy]

Chocolate bunnies here

[poohbear.u.k.]

I just buy for my DS's. I usually get them a big one each & I also do an Easter egg hunt for them with loads of small eggs & bunnies.(They still haven't worked out that it's mummy that runs around the garden at 5am hiding them & NOT the Easter Bunnie )


Lisa.

[graygables]

We do an activity the evening before that tells the Easter story (which, with my office a mess, I have to find it) but it's basically baking meringue cookies overnight that represent the resurrection.

We do baskets, usually a chocolate bunny (I miss the European window displays especially this time of year!) and some lotions, chapstick, crayons, coloring books, etc. DH and I get our own chocolate bunnies! I fill plastic eggs with candy and DH goes out and hides them while I keep DDs from peeking (they know he does it) then they go on a color-coded hunt (to keep it fair). We try to keep it laid back.

[luvnwdwgal]

I have never sent Easter cards, and don't do any treats or eggs anymore either, since DS is grown.

[JoanW]

I do baskets for the girls, but since we don't NEED candy, I put very little in. I put stickers, lip gloss, trinkets from Claires (I'm going in search of the peeps!), gift cards or maybe a dvd.

We have dinner at our house, and we have about 16 coming this year. We do an Easter Egg hunt in the back yard, but we only have one under the age of 10 now, so I don't know if we will do the Egg Hunt. At one time we had 8 kids participating, but now they are growing up and getting married!

[kv3291]

I plan a large breakfaast and Easter egg hunt several weekends before Easter for Mackinly and his friends. With Easter being so early, I fear that the hunt will be in the snow. For Easter morning, the Easter bunny always hides a basket and some eggs around the house. The Easter bunnt NEVER brings much candy though...he usually fills the eggs with his spare change.

[lauren-roxy]

We don't send cards, but we do hide baskets with small gifts in them for the kids and have an Easter egg hunt outside-if the weather is good!

[CelticChick]

We normally buy Sean, Ryan and Caitlin a toy or some trading cards as a main gift but I do hide small mini eggs all over the house. We normally give bigger eggs to my nieces, nephews and DMIL and we also give eggs to the boys school teachers.

[Colexis Mom]

I don't do cards. I make baskets for the kids, and we usually have an easter egg hunt in the back yard (weather permitting)!

[*Pixie*Dust*]

My mother still makes baskets for all of us kids (ages 35-42 ) and all of the grandkids.
I also make one for DH and DD.
I usually only get cards for my mom and DH.

[Tara O'Hara]

We still do baskets here. We fill them with candy and a small present for each of the kids!

[MontiMouse]

I do a basket for Macy but she doesn't like the Easter candy very much so I usually buy her some of favorites like KitKat bars, skittles, peeps and then I buy her fun things like bathing suits, new sandals, bubble bath, etc. We spend Easter at my aunts house. Since Macy is the only child there we have started doing an Easter Egg Hunt for the grown ups. My aunt's friend works for a liquor company so she donates t-shirts, hats, etc and then we buy other gifts such as lottery tickets, bottles of wine, and such. Each adult pays $2 to participate (so the person who bought the gifts gets their money back). Macy hides the eggs for the adults to hunt. She loves doing it and believe it or not, the adults have a blast. We use plastic eggs and put little notes in some of them to let the person know what they win. It is lots of fun and even my grandmother who is 82 participates.