Easter...

[186momx]

What's everyone doing this weekend?

What's going in your kiddo's baskets?

[traveltheworld]

We are heading back to our old city tonight and the weekend will be filled with meeting up with old friends and their kids. We will be joining an easter egg hunt with our friends tomorrow morning.

I didn't do Easter baskets.

[186momx]

DD doesn't want to do the community egg hunts as she can't eat most of the stuff they put in the eggs due to her dental stuff. I asked what she wanted to do and she wants to have a girls day at the coast to just walk on the beach for a few hours. If the weather is nice I think we will go over and walk.

No baskets so far. I need to go shopping tomorrow on my off day. Will probably grab a bag of MnMs and the Robin Egg Whoppers as DD likes both of those.


Thinking about making salmon and veggies for dinner on Sunday. My mom is boycotting Easter this year and we normally do that because it is during tax season. It feels weird being so late. DD keeps asking me if the bunny has texted asking for help yet. Normally the bunny emails saying he is overworked and if she could please dye X number of eggs for him. Then the bunny leaves a thank you note in the empty bowl.

[2chatter]

Friday - no school - dye eggs with my mom, bake tomb rolls, see Unbreakable

Saturday - DD has choir rehearsal and is prepping for the church egg hunt, Easter lunch with my mom (here, after garage sale), family Easter service at church followed by egg hunt and festival (DD will walk home to eat and go back to church), hosting flashlight egg hunt party here Saturday night

Sunday - church, Easter lunch at SIL’s

The kids are getting summer outdoor toys (pool games, water guns, balls), plus pajamas, swim wear and candy. So much candy because DD could have anything - I went overboard. But the Easter tub with the giant eggs is missing....ugh.

[sunbutter]

We are going to DC on Amtrak to hang out as a gift for DD’s birthday.
I’m paying the cat sitter extra to hide my plastic eggs on Sunday morning so the kids will have at least that part of Easter when we return.
Their baskets have books, one small trinket, one small LEGO set, some kit Kats and chocolate covered Easter themed cookies.

[katespade]

H works on Friday and Saturday, but was able to get Sunday off. We're planning to go out to breakfast with some of my family (mom, grandma, aunt, and cousin, as far as I know), and then haven't made a decision about our plans for the rest of the day yet. All I know is that DD has a super cute outfit to wear and I hope we're able to keep it clean long enough to show her off a bit.

I feel like I may have gone a little overboard on the Easter basket, especially considering DD is only 3.5 months old and won't actually care about any of it. We got a bunny with her name on one ear and "First Easter" on the other, a set of teether toys, two board books, and a bunch of candy that I will happily be eating for her.

[k3am]

My MIL dropped of Easter baskets for the kids. I'm not to be trusted in making/filling them. I mean, I probably wouldn't have bought 3 bags of plastic grass per kid that will just be thrown out and sent to the pacific garbage patch, so she's probably right...

We'll do an egg hunt at home and brunch. And I'll be having generously poured mimosas because.. did I mention my inlaws?

[supertrooper1]

I'm going to my parents house for Easter dinner/my mom's birthday on Sunday. It's not my weekend to have DS, but I got him a couple little chocolate things.

[mommyatty]

We all have tomorrow off. I think we will do Easter egg dying tomorrow plus I have to shop for stuff for their Easter basket stuff. The kids have a tentative play date with some old friends from KinderMusik and their grandmas. So my shopping can happen while they are on the play date.

Saturday is baseball day. They have an Easter egg hunt before our first game starts, so that should be fun.

Sunday we will eat a good lunch, though what that will be is beyond me right now.

[mae0111]

Kids have been on break all week, so we've done a few things - hit the playground, play dates, inflatable place today. Tomorrow DH and I are meeting with the neuropsych to review DD1's testing. The kids will stay with my dad, which will be super boring because he's recovering from a total knee replacement. We are hopefully going to tour what appears to be our dream house in our dream town. It is slightly out of reach cost-wise, but has been on the market for a long time when most stuff moves quickly. So I'm hoping that, if they like it, they will negotiate.

Saturday DD1 is supposed to have softball, but they're predicting flooding rains. Then cooking/baking/prep for Easter. We will probably try to go to 4pm Mass on Saturday. My mom his hosting, we're just going to grill, so I'm bringing lots of appetizers and desserts. The kids have Monday off as well.

Easter baskets are lacking this year. They're getting candy and some books. I might try to pick up some bubbles or chalk or something, but maybe not.

[madringal]

Well, my older sister was hosting my whole family (26 people) and now she has the flu. So my aunts and cousins will do their own thing. My little sister and her family are still coming to town so we will have them and my dad over. Which means, now I am hosting. Ugh! It will be a mad rush to get all the food together. DD1's birthday party is Friday night (14, 11 year old girl) so I will be SPENT by Sunday evening.

[waverly]

My mom is coming for Easter. I need advice on how to handle her. She is extremely argumentative and opinionated. She has lost her filter not that she had much, but anyway she is worse. We do a ton of nodding and smiling and not engaging. If I engage it turns into an argument.

If I don't engage she feels that she is annoying everyone or even when I do engage she feels that way. It's hard to be peppy and happy when she is here because of it because she is so contrary. Basically everything I do is not quite good enough (not in the super bad way of you suck as a person because she is nicer than that), but in the your house is not clean, when I was a SAHM my house was clean kind of way.

It's all pointless arguments and my guess is that well she doesn't have dementia and has all her facilities but has had health issues. I feel like I constantly have to defend myself, and even when I don't defend myself it adds up so that when I interact with her it is kind of like deep sigh OK lets carry on this conversation positively with effort, and she notices the deep sigh prepping myself to try to be positive and not argue.

Any help? Arguing, debating, or conversing doesn't work per se, because then we go down unseen rabbit holes of other irrelevant stuff in her quest for competition. I was already excited to see her despite her yelling at me 2 weekends ago because I figured that I had messed up and deserved it (nothing major just bad communication on the part of DH to me and then to her), but already we had 1 text exchange and she is contradicting everything, and we literally talked about nothing.

ETA- we are almost 40ish and live apart from family, so we are very much used to doing our own thing without other people second guessing us or making comments, and she still thinks oh I am your mother so I will make a comment and suggestion and you should take that into super special consideration.  So those don't jive, and my sister has her over all the time and is taking what she says into consideration for I don't know what reason, but she watched their kids, so I think my sister is more submissive in that role of oh yeah your really unimportant suggestion that is over thinking it and time consuming should be given major consideration.  Whereas my personality is I already spent time on this and don't have more time to spend on debating hair products for example. 

Easter baskets for both kids this year are- bath colors, kids tennis rackets and ball (softer and larger than regular tennis balls), battleship, PJs, markers, lol doll. Maybe I will put them all in together and just hold off the PJs and lol for DD so it looks more even....

[rere]

I am heading to the horse track with friends tomorrow. Saturday DD has volleyball. Dh is working all weekend, so the kids and I will do church solo. Then off to moms to have basically, Thanksgiving dinner. She insists on this meal for all holidays, no variations.

I have everything for both baskets. Ds is getting an Xbox gift card and DD a couple of pairs of Nike shorts, plus candy.

[mustardseed2007]

Easter basket for DD is a dinosaur puppet popping out of an egg (she loves this thing and I'm so glad I got it), one twisty pet each, a book and a chocolate egg. DS I need to get one more thing.

Friday we are dying eggs at my mom's.

Saturday we have an easter egg hunt at my sister's church where she works and then a kid's birthday party.

Sunday we'll hunt eggs, maybe go to church at my sister's church, and then go to my mom's house. My sister's church and my mom's house are pretty far from each other so I don't know if we'll do that or not but it's what I'd like to do. Our church is too crowded at easter and I avoid going there that day. Ironically.

[sandandsea]

We don’t really do baskets but I will hide some eggs. I also bought the boys some Pokémon bath bombs and a beyblade toy to share. We just set them out with the hidden eggs! . Ds1 is in the know and asked if he could help hide eggs this year. So I have to figure out how to hide eggs with him but surprise him with the toy.


And my goal this weekend is to not work. Tomorrow I leave work early for Good Friday services and Saturday I’m volunteering At church while ds1 and dh go to the track. Sunday we will go to early church as a family then brunch and I’ll make a ham and pineapple dinner (family tradition).

[callmekd]

coloring eggs on Saturday. it's also suppose to be in the low 70s so we will be outside enjoying the sun!

on Sunday, we will have an egg hunt at our house in the morning, mass at 10am with an egg hunt at church after, then naps for the littles and then a fabulous easter brunch at a local brewery at 3pm.

for the littles - we got them wooden name puzzles, a couple of books, a little bit of candy.

for the big sis - legos, books, a little bit of candy

[campermom]

On the way to the campground. Got out of work at 4:10, daycare pickup and unpacked...still made it to the road by 5! We got this down.

We are close by so we will still take DD to her soccer practice and game.

Checking out on Sunday and suppressing my catholic guilt that we are doing church this year. I also didn’t have to buy outfits. So that makes me feel a lot better. Getting all that together (dresses and outfits and shoes and all for everyone) for just one hour really stresses me out. Expensive too.

Campfire and beers in 20 minutes.

[twinmomma]

I don't get the kids til 9 am. But I'm still doing baskets at my house. I have a few Pokemon toys, a couple little Target dollar section things, nice big journal notebooks, and a chocolate bunny for each. Sounds like a lot but it's all small, fits in a basket things.

Easter brunch is at a restaurant this year with my immediate family. No one wanted to host so we are trying it out. The Easter Bunny makes an appearance so we know it will be fairly kid friendly.

Are big Christmas level gifts a thing where you guys are? I see that all over Facebook here.

[mae0111]

I have come in to add that my kids have somehow decided that Easter is Christmas. DD1 is asking the Easter Bunny for all kinds of toys. I keep trying to set expectations, but they are being completely ignored.

Part of me does not want to ruin any magic. Part of me wants reality to hit them hard in the face.

[mommyatty]

No way to the Christmas at Easter. I got the kids each an egg out of which will hatch a baby dragon because they were on clearance at Joann Fabric today, plus a water gun filled with Jelly Beans and an egg of Silly Putty. I have a cute pattern to make bunnies on my embroidery machine. It’s an “in the hoop” project, so you end up with a stuffed animal. I’m making those tomorrow more because I’m in the mood to make something than because they need anything more for Easter.

[erinshelley21]

I'm working a few hours tomorrow and DH has class all day. I have a dr appt in the afternoon and will go to Target to do Easter shopping before my appt. Tomorrow night is baseball kick off and pictures.

Saturday we have baseball practice in the morning, grocery pick up and cleaning the house. Doing a cookout with my mom, brother, and his family and we will color eggs.

Sunday is church and then brunch and an egg hunt at FIL's. Pretty sure the brunch is only happening because of DS. He mentioned an hunting for eggs last Sunday and Sunday night plans were being made.

Easter Bunny is hiding eggs with packets of flower seeds. Not sure what the bunny is putting in their baskets though. We'll see what hops in her cart at target tomorrow.

[mrspez07]

Nothing.
Bad mom, bad hostess, bad wife.

I still need to shop for basket stuff, DH bought ham the other day, but we don’t have specific plans for it, haven’t dyed ester eggs, never got the decorations out. Might spend Sat night at a friends, might do nothing on Sunday. Really have let this one go.

[polecat8]

I'm hoping we can dye eggs tonight or tomorrow afternoon. Our upstairs bathroom probably won't be finished, so we'll have to clean up the dust and hide the materials where the kids won't be tempted to get into it.
On Saturday, we'll head to the gym and then go to DS1's soccer game at noon. We'll be cleaning and relaxing for the rest of the day.
On Sunday, we are hosting Easter dinner with my family. My dad always puts together an egg hunt for the kids. He likes to put candy and money in the eggs. I'm hoping the weather is nice for a bit so we can get outside to do it.

Easter bunny is bringing a book and small toy for each kid along with some candy. I still need to get something to put in DH's basket. All I have right now is candy.

[abs]

Well, DD wrote a letter to the Easter Bunny so that tells you how she feels about the holiday. In her favor though it was mostly a letter asking for certain kinds of candy because now that she is starting the process of getting an expander she can't have anything too sticky.

Anyways we have zero plans this weekend and I am so happy about it! We are having Easter dinner out on Sunday. That's the only thing set it stone.

DD is getting some books, Legos, a card game, a Switch game, and a small amount of chocolate in her Easter basket.

[waverly]

So far mom is behaving herself. I’m not really sure what is happening this weekend because my MIL passed out at home and broke her ankle. She is in the hospital because they don’t know why she fainted.

DH might go visit tomorrow MIL and because they live far away would basically take up the entire weekend. Tonight we have a surprise 40th birthday party. Part of me doesn’t want to go because I have to drive in by myself but I am hoping traffic is light due to the holiday.

[covergirl82]

DD (and to some extent DS) have come to think that Easter is a slightly smaller version of Christmas. I'm ready for my kids to know that Santa and the Easter Bunny are not real. I may need to just break it to them.

DS has a baseball scrimmage for his travel team, then is going to a b-day party and sleepover. DD is having her BFF over for her first sleepover Friday night. Saturday should be pretty low key, and the only thing we have planned is DS's baseball practice in the afternoon. Sunday we have a breakfast at DH's grandpa's church, then we go to our church for worship, then I'm teaching one of the children's classes. My parents are stopping by in the afternoon.

[mellym]

I actually really enjoy this holiday - it's fun to hide and watch the kids find it all. We are having a neighborhood egg hunt tomorrow morning. I only had to buy candy that was safe for DD1 and one of the older boys is putting everything together and hiding the eggs. Then, we go to my parents' house for lunch, egg hunt and they hide baskets for our kids. Sunday we'll hide baskets at home and DD1 has been asking the bunny to hide her basket really hard this year. I already see this ending badly when she can't find it in 5 minutes...We'll go to my in laws house later in the afternoon for dinner and they hide baskets for everyone. Yes, I still get a basket and need to find it. I'm going to bribe the girls to find it for me this year since I can't be on my foot. I put a basket together for MIL this year so she gets something too.

We got candy, LOL doll, ball, butterfly catcher, markets, outfit and books for their baskets.

[divanerd]

We are spending Saturday night at the Aquarium with the Cub Scouts.

Sunday we ate going to Church and dinner at my mom's house