the stage.
Easter Bunny knows that Fred's school gave out an extraordinary quantity of chocolate and that Una also got eggs at creche, so the spread is light on this year (not that the girls notice). Fred gathers up her white chocolate Lindt bunny and her four caramel easter eggs. 'When I get inside I'm going to give an egg to you Mummy, and one to Daddy,' says Fred. And she does. I am overcome. We suggest to Una she give one of her eggs to Fred to make things fair again. Una does, without question. I love them. I love my girls.
The Easter Bunny has also brought presents, even though we're not quite sure about Easter and presents. This Easter Bunny remembers how some girls at school got toys and perfume and jewellery for Easter, but she doesn't really think these are appropriate for Easter. No, no. Easter is the chocolate holiday. On Facebook this morning she reads about kids who got new Nintendo DS games and she quietly disapproved of such extravagance, such blatant consumerism on behalf of one of her alternate selves. Anyway, this Easter Bunny nestled amongst the chocolate a painted wooden egg, a badge each and a fluffy chicken (who can resist a fluffy chicken), inside a little plastic egg, decorated by a little old man and a little old woman somewhere in Melbourne. Trinkets, Easter trinkets.
This morning, when Fred gathered up her eggs she said 'Thank you, Mummy and Daddy!'
I said, 'don't thank us, thank the Easter Bunny.'
'Oh yeah, I forgot.' She calls thank you to the Easter Bunny.
Did she forget? Or are we perpetuating an untruth? And is she protecting us by playing along?
Tomorrow, the circus! Fred couldn't be more excited. And four nights down at the beach! Yay!
Happy Easter!
LOL, that was amusing.
ReplyDeleteI love the Easter Bunny. ^____^
Nice Easter trinkets. Good compromise. The Easter Bunny has not, bless him or her, heard of any kind of electronic equipment.
ReplyDeleteEaster is a strange one, isn't it? I never understood completely the significance of whole bunny laying chocolate eggs thing. I understand even less, the present thing. Why would Easter Bunny lay perfume, make-up, or a Nintendo? It is not as if our kids these days aren't inundated with enough 'stuff' throughout the year.
ReplyDeleteWe've essentially put Easter on hold until the future possible Grandchildren are born. Then I expect we will buy eggs and hide them in the garden. But for now, it is just a long-long weekend. Though, I confess I did buy a small box of chocolates for each of the kids.
are kids perpetuating our myths to protect us parents? ooo, don't let's open that can of worms. Somehow our eldest figured out that Santa doesn't exist and we are Santa. I think it came from figuring out that we were the Easter Bunny. This morning, it didn't stop him from hassling me to get out of bed to go hide the eggs so they could hunt them out – also because I'd said that there would be no easter egg hunting at the crack of dawn as I wouldn't be waking up early to hide them (I'm still sore that I ended up hiding eggs in the dark (!) last year as the kids were too excited to sleep or to wait for dawn!). And we're not sure if he's also doing this to perpetuate the myth for his nearly 3-yr-old brother.
ReplyDeleteEaster is the strangest.
such sweet girls :^)
ReplyDeletehappy easter!
We had some similar moments with Easter this year where I realised that I didn't really know that much about the mythology of this bunny thing so when my daughter asked these questions (all innocently) about the practicalities of the whole thing, I started to find the idea of a rabbit who delivers chocolate to your house while you sleep increasingly weird and difficult to explain. But in the end she was quite happy with the explanations and impressed with the chocolate.
ReplyDeleteLovely Lovely
ReplyDeleteHope you had a great break xo
p.s I've finally set up a blog. Not sure of what will eventuate there but thought I'd give it a go, albeit half-hearted.