I remember when I was growing up that Easter was an exciting holiday as a kid. It was one of the few holidays we were allowed to experience before anyone else got out of bed. Unlike Christmas which required strategically placing the youngest member of the family outside our parents door in hoping to “accidentally” wake them up, my parents were smarter and placed goodies outside our bedroom doors for us to discover.
(psst…usually at 5am if we lasted that long)
My mom always made sure I had a new book, usually Nancy Drew, there were toothbrushes, lots of candy, and looking back, this is pretty funny now, but also random pennies, nickles, dimes and crumpled dollar bills. My dad must have come home from work and emptied his pockets into the eggs that were left before putting them in our baskets. I need someone to do that now, right??!
With my own kids I sorta do the same thing. We do not have any really strong repeatable traditions around here on any particular holiday, and of course you know that I pretty much burn boiled eggs without trying, but I do enjoy holidays. I am also still looking for an Easter Egg hunt here in Mobile to go to because I always find that a ton of fun too.
Here is one we took Charlotte on when she was younger and we were trying to decide if little P would get himself run over if we took them this year:
And goodness, Easter showed up early didn’t it?
I am really running out of time to get creative. Thankfully Charlotte is easy to please and I can pretty much get away with baking cookies and doing Easter Bark.
In fact, here is some Easter Bark I made that Walmart actually show cased! (Honestly. That is really mine. Finally that DSLR pays off.)
You should totally click over and get the recipe….
Cause I made it.
And cause other bloggers made other really awesome Easter stuff too, but also cause I made it.
And I am awesome.
Anyhoo, aside from bragging about my photo and wanting to tell you to visit that really cool Nestlé Solutions Center for Easter recipes and dish inspirations for all your spring occasions (that incidentally come from other food and mom bloggers) I also wanted to ask you if there is anything specific YOU do for the holiday? The best ideas come from moms!
Money in the eggs like my dad? Colored Eggs? Maybe colored deviled eggs?
Oh, and check out those guns. If a big Easter bunny really DID show up in our house…I don’t think he would get very far.
Booyah!
~Trisha
WOAH! That Easter egg hunt is WAY bigger than the ones here. As for traditions… we have none. Normally the kids open their baskets before we wake.
I really need to invest in a DSLR and take my photos to the next level! That bark looks absolutely delish.
Congrats on your Easter Bark being show cased! It is pretty!
We never grew up with big Easter traditions. My folks may have still been tired from Christmas? LOL. I remember one colored egg hunt. I remember Easter basket filled with goodies – candy, but never hidden like some kids had to go through. And eventually the baskets dwindled to a piece of candy and a toy. LOL.
My husbands family always dyed eggs and did an Easter Egg hunt with THOSE though. We do that every-other year, when we spend the holiday with them. But this year we aren’t … and I am still doing it. I got my kits, I am going to buy the eggs and the kids will color them with their cousins. And then they’ll hide them. I am also thinking of going to Walmart to buy some goodies for plastic eggs to do a hunt with those too? And of course, we do a basket. The basket isn’t loaded with candy – although it does have Peeps and Pez. But the rest is going to be books, LEGOs and other little toys.
Oh, I read Nancy Drew too as a teen. I remember always thinking that those books were awesome!
You are fabulous!
That Easter bark looks so colorful, great thinking to use Sweet Tarts.
Growing up my parents always did a chocolate bunny and a basket for us. We did Easter egg hunts for a while.
I have cooked a big Easter dinner and invited my entire family since the late 80s. Over the years the amount of people that come has shrunk down to just us and my parents. One brother can’t come because he’s in Ohio. The others don’t come because they’re jerks. As it turns out I kind of like it with just my parents.
One tradition I have is every year my Mom and I go to the cemetery to visit my Grandma’s grave, she died on Good Friday.
We typically don’t dye eggs because no one here eats them. I did a half dozen this year for a Make A Wish post, and we threw four in the trash after they sat for ever in the fridge. As far as baking, I do spritz cookies, but we don’t have any set traditions.
Easter is just sort of another day, well except the bunny visits and he hides the kids baskets. They love waking up looking for the Baskets. IDK if I have my kids on Easter Weekend. I am thinking no. So the Bunny baskets will stay hidden until they return from their Dads or school that Monday.
Each year the rec center in town does a town wide preschool egg hunt on the non-used field of the airport, super fun and last year they had planes driving past and such doing some sort of fun air show for the kids. Maybe I will take Karter to that this year if it’s when he doesn’t have his preschool class.
We love a great Easter egg hunt. Our favorite one is at a local recreation center where they have the hunt outside (weather permitting of course) and then some great fun to follow indoors. Wouldn’t be Easter without it!
That Easter bark is so pretty. I’ve recently reinstated our family Easter egg hunt, but with all plastic eggs. We load the eggs with cash, candy, and pieces of paper with numbers on them. The numbers correspond to prizes. These kids are coming up on toys, games, and even tickets to Six Flags.
That Easter bark looks so good! Beautiful pic of mama too!
Those are some darn fine arms, Trisha!! And that easter bark looks yummy! But I’m a peeps girl, myself…. got some recipes for that??