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Ideas for Easter Fun Without the Calories

Want to serve up heaping helpings of holiday fun without spending a ton of money on high-fat, high-sugar, high-calorie Easter treats that’ll turn your kids into Energizer bunnies? Take a look in a book. These adorable Easter reads are the perfect addition to a sugar-free holiday basket or a great way to bond in bed with your child as you countdown to Sunday’s visit from the gift-bearing bunny: Easter Bunny on the Loose!:  A Seek and Solve Mystery There’s an emergency in Easterville and your kid gets to play detective.  Wendy Wax and Dave Garbot team up for this fun-filled, … Continue reading →

Post-Easter Sugar High… and Low

Classes may be out for spring break, but my second grader got schooled big time on Easter Sunday. Thanks to the extreme generosity of parents, grandparents, neighbors and the Easter Bunny, my daughter received not one, not two, not three, but six different chocolate rabbits. While her haul could have been the basis of many lessons, including self-control, charity, gratitude, and the dangers of excessive sugar consumption, she instead spent Easter learning the difference between “solid” and “hollow.” As in, just because you receive a two-foot tall chocolate bunny dressed in a top hat, blue bow tie, and a cummerbund … Continue reading →

Easter Egg Envy

To quote The Beatles: “I long for yesterday.” Back then you didn’t have to have a degree in mixology and interior design to decorate Easter eggs. All you needed were a few bowls, some hard-boiled eggs, a handful of dissolving dye tablets and a wire dunker. Every year it was PAAS or bust. Parents of my generation know that PAAS is the Kleenex of Easter egg decorating kits. So, why mess with success? Today, moms and dads are bombarded with crazy egg decorating sets that require mad scientist skills to jazz-up hard-boiled ovum in time for Easter. Long gone are … Continue reading →

Freakazoid Parents Ruining Easter for Kids

I will never subject my sweet, innocent little lamb to another hare-raising event like it ever again. NEVER. EVER. EVER. AGAIN! I wrote those words on April 9, 2009, on this very blog. They were inspired by a bunch of freakazoid parents who decide to “help” their kids at a public Easter egg hunt. And by help I mean run over, elbow, flatten and otherwise traumatize innocent little children whom they did not give birth to, so they could get their grubby adult hands on plastic eggs and hand them to their offspring. So much for egg “hunting,” not to … Continue reading →

Way to Ruin Easter

Nothing ruins Easter like: *The Easter Bunny delivering a basket full of carrots instead of chocolate *Rain cancelling your annual Easter egg hunt *Rover devouring all the Easter candy *A bunch of politically correct extremists forcing kids to call Easter eggs “Spring Spheres” Last year I learned that Jesus was crucified so that procrastinating parents could elbow you in the shoulder in order to get the last package of electric blue Peeps. This year the Easter lessons keep coming. Only this time P.C. zealots are the ones doling out the crazy, not rude shoppers. The same people who prefer that … Continue reading →

Easter After Effects: The Sugar High Blues

It is the day after Easter and not a peep in the house. Where are they? You go upstairs to find two small children fast asleep at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. Huh? Why, they are usually wide awake causing chaos and havoc at this time of the day when there is no school. This is the day after. The day after Easter. These children are suffering from the sugar high blues. Easter was wonderful. The children awoke to find beautifully decorated Easter baskets all decked out in colorful cellophane wrap put together by yours truly. Yes, they had far … Continue reading →

When Your Kid Wants to Bring the Easter Bunny Home

There was a time when my young daughter wanted nothing to do with the Easter Bunny… at least the one at the mall. Time has apparently erased the bad feelings she had for the candy-toting rabbit because now all she talks about is how she wants the Easter Bunny to bring her a real rabbit to care for, instead of the chocolate kind. Greeeeeeeeeeeeat! How did bunnies and baby chicks become the poster animals for Easter anyway? What’s more, do parents really present live bunnies and chicks to their kids on Easter Sunday? I’m no farmer, and I highly doubt … Continue reading →

Recipes for Leftover Easter Chocolate

After a quick search on Google I’ve come to the conclusion that the words “leftover” and “chocolate” are rarely used in the same sentence. I suppose after the collective sugar coma most of us endured on Easter; there wouldn’t be so much as a tip of a chocolate bunny’s ear left amongst the plastic grass and broken eggs. Then again, my family rarely follows conventional wisdom. Despite the sugar fest that took place here last week, we still had a basket full of chocolate sitting on the kitchen counter. The leftover chocolate taunted me for days, and a few hours … Continue reading →

Crazy Easter Parents

I just got back from Target where I learned that apparently Jesus was crucified so that procrastinating parents could elbow you in the shoulder in order to get the last package of electric blue Peeps. Elbows in shoulders, ribs, jaws; shopping carts running over feet and ramming hips; short tempers and long lines… Remember the reason for the season, people. Geez! Note to self: Bring shin guards the next time you head down the candy aisle on the day before Easter. The kicker (and I mean that literally) to my shopping rant is that I was done collecting goodies to … Continue reading →

Parents + Easter Egg Hunts = Hare Raising Experiences

Have you ever taken your child to a public Easter egg hunt? I have, and vowed to never subject my sweet, innocent little lamb to another hare-raising event like it ever again. NEVER. EVER. EVER. AGAIN! Okay, maybe I’m being a bit dramatic. Never is a long time and my child is not always sweet or innocent, but she sure doesn’t charge at plastic eggs like wild animals let loose in the Serengeti. Who am I kidding? Wild animals rushing around the Kenyan outback behave better than some of the aggressive parents who flock to local Easter egg hunts. For … Continue reading →