‘Twas The Night Before Easter…
…And Mom, also known as the Easter Bunny, is too cheap thinks it is ridiculous to spend $1.50 on a tiny bag of pastel colored shredded paper Easter basket grass so she is cutting up construction paper to make grass with.
After all, he is just 4!
I bought my Easter basket stuff at Target today, and my God they have a lot of useless stuff that they, and every other store in America, are try to pawn off on parents at Easter time. Among the things I saw were plastic “candy holders” in the shape of the Superman emblem. Somehow that just doesn’t seem very Easter-y.
Or how about a dart gun for our 7-year old? That really just reminds me of Jesus rising up from the dead to forgive us of our sins Easter.
And then of course, their are those Peeps.
I suppose they are kinda okay, if you have the taste buds of the under-6 set. I’ve been known, on rare occasion, to eat them before (if I am needing a sugar fix and there is nothing else nearby). But everywhere I have been lately, every store seems to be a… Peep pusher. They have huge displays with rows and rows of florescent sugar coated marshmallow junk. They even have stuffed animal Peeps, I saw some today at Target.
The bunnies are kind of scary… kind of like, Thalidomide bunnies. Really, do these look like much fun to play with? Maybe they make good pillows.
So, if you are doing the whole Easter basket thing, what is in your basket?
Being that I know someone who is a Thalidimide baby with no arms and only one foot… not so funny on this one crankymommy.
Comment by Sheri — Sunday, April 8, 2007 @ 12:55 pm
My wife likes to let Peeps sit out for a week or two to get stale and hard. Apparently they are “better” that way. I find them revolting in any state.
I much prefer Cadbury Eggs.
Comment by anonymouscoworker — Monday, April 9, 2007 @ 1:08 pm
MY Easter basket? An extra bottle of insulin and a clean syringe.
My son’s? Too damn much candy and then, of course, there’s that shopping bag full of Target-purchased crap from my famiy that I just lugged in from the car. I suppose it’s time to go throw out that Halloween candy now and spirit away some of the new supply so we aren’t overrun.
I have a rule that on Easter, the morning after Halloween, and Christmas you can eat as much candy as you’d like before breakfast. Guess what my charming little one ate? A PEEP! Ick….
Comment by kirstenblom — Monday, April 9, 2007 @ 11:39 pm
I bought 2 bags of jelly beans, 2 pkg’s of peanut butter eggs, six cadberry eggs, and 3 hollow chocolate bunnies. It was divided amongst our three kids, so they didn’t get much. I also purchased three singing toothbrushes to get rid of all of the sugar and potential cavities. They love the toothbrushes. The candy has hardly been touched. I must be doing something right as a parent.
Comment by dawn — Tuesday, April 10, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
Peeps scare me.
Comment by Amy — Tuesday, April 10, 2007 @ 10:42 pm
The Washington Post had a peeps diorama contest. (I hope you don’t mind, but here’s the link. It’s hilarious: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040501976.html)
Comment by Hanmee — Wednesday, April 11, 2007 @ 10:12 am
I have lost it as well lately. But I am glad to hear you are better…..
Comment by crazymumma — Wednesday, April 11, 2007 @ 9:27 pm
My wife likes to let Peeps sit out for a week or two to get stale and hard. Apparently they are “better” that way. Hd Film izle I find them revolting in any state.
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