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posted: 4/7/2007 at 7:13 PM
modified: 4/11/2007 at 12:00 AM |
What are some of the things that you do every Easter that make it a special day for your family?
One of the things that my parents used to do for us kids, that I'm continuing on, was to make little paper clues about where our gift could be found. We'd start with one clue (and my rhyming dad always made them up), then it'd say where to find the next, etc., until you made it to the gift! Some of the clues were in pretty funny places, and not all clues were easily figured out! And there were A LOT of clues too- we had to work for those Easter presents!!
I just finished 15 clues...still have a few to go, but this gives you an idea of the torture we put our kids through:
(This would be found in a little wrapped box for both of them...Clue #1)
Happy Easter Noah and Bryan !
We love you with all our heart!
Are you ready to find your Easter present?
Get ready, get set, and start!!
Follow the clues,
And the closer you'll be,
To finding your package,
And yelling, "Whoopee!"
So where to now?
You stand there and wonder,
Turn toward a couch,
And then look under!
(Clue 2)
Good job finding Clue #1!
Very quick you two are,
Now go look at the window,
Outside on the car <----they'd head into the garage
(Clue 3)
Brr. It's cold out here.
But you're doing very well.
Go into the place
Where you scrub up & get rid of your smell. <-----Which of course, is the tub!
(Clue 4)
Rub a dub dubby
You're here in the tubby
Look behind the gold bear
That's really really chubby! <-----Which would lead them to a huge Winnie the Pooh bear in their bedroom.
Anyhow, you get the idea. We have the kids going from one end of the house to the other, upstairs, downstairs, in the garage, in the house, back out in the garage and depending on the weather (which it looks like it'll be too cold) outside too!! It's a blast. I'm also thinkin' about making jello eggs to hide as we can't have eggs. We'll see!
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posted: 4/7/2007 at 8:53 PM |
Oh, that's really cool! We don't really have any unique traditions like that, but that would be a fun one to start! My dad and I had sort of an inside joke. As a kid I was the only one to like black jelly beans, so my dad one year filled my basket with nothing but the black ones (I don't know if you still can find this, but Brach's used to make bags of just black ones). Interesting what a diet heavy in black jelly beans will do to your poops... /TMI
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posted: 4/8/2007 at 1:20 AM |
When I was a kid we used to hide the Easter baskets - everyone got to hide someone else's. It's hard finding good hiding spots for a full-sized Easter basket. Behind the long drapes, behind a chair, under a blanket... I only had one year that they couldn't find the one I'd hidden - I put it in the clothes dryer! I felt so clever...  |
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posted: 4/8/2007 at 1:26 AM |
Quote from Wingz on 4/8/2007 at 1:20 AM:I only had one year that they couldn't find the one I'd hidden - I put it in the clothes dryer! I felt so clever...
My folks did that to me one year...hmmm...I think that might be a good place for Dane's...
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posted: 4/8/2007 at 5:18 AM |
| Quote from zoom-zoom on 4/7/2007 at 8:53 PM: Interesting what a diet heavy in black jelly beans will do to your poops... /TMI
There are only two kinds of people in this world -- those who love black jelly beans, and those who hate them. And I love 'em. I don't care what it does to my poop... |
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posted: 4/8/2007 at 5:21 AM |
| Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 4/8/2007 at 5:18 AM: I don't care what it does to my poop...
Hey, but it'll keep ya' regular! Kinda like coffee every morning. Helps to keep a person on schedule.
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posted: 4/8/2007 at 4:54 PM |
Quote from Wingz on 4/8/2007 at 1:20 AM:When I was a kid we used to hide the Easter baskets - everyone got to hide someone else's. It's hard finding good hiding spots for a full-sized Easter basket. Behind the long drapes, behind a chair, under a blanket... I only had one year that they couldn't find the one I'd hidden - I put it in the clothes dryer! I felt so clever...
I had to laugh!!!! After I did all of the clues that I mentioned, the last one lead my kids to ....you guessed it!...the clothes dryer! Too funny!!!
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posted: 4/8/2007 at 4:59 PM |
| Quote from zoom-zoom on 4/7/2007 at 8:53 PM: Interesting what a diet heavy in black jelly beans will do to your poops... /TMI
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posted: 4/8/2007 at 5:30 PM |
| Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 4/8/2007 at 5:18 AM: There are only two kinds of people in this world -- those who love black jelly beans, and those who hate them. And I love 'em. I don't care what it does to my poop...
Let's form a club - The RA Black Jelly Bean Lovers! BTW - as recently as a couple years ago I bought a bag of all black jelly beans. Haven't looked for them since though.
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posted: 4/8/2007 at 5:46 PM |
| Quote from Bonkin on 4/8/2007 at 5:30 PM: Let's form a club - The RA Black Jelly Bean Lovers! BTW - as recently as a couple years ago I bought a bag of all black jelly beans. Haven't looked for them since though.
I love black jelly beans, I'm the only one in our house of 6 that likes them!! Yay, more for me.
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posted: 4/9/2007 at 12:41 AM |
i love black jelly beans too! Actually, i like all of them except for pink (tastes too bitter...almost like Peeps, which i loathe)....
no major traditions here- this was the first easter where hannah really got into the whole "easter bunny coming to visit" sort of thing. She burst into the bedroom just shy of 7 this morning eager to go see....!
still trying to find a balance between what we do and what the ILs do with h on the holidays....MIL insists on coloring eggs too, having the Bunny visit their house etc....it's nice that they love hannah so much, but i wish they'd just back off a bit....she had her turn to do all this stuff with her kids, now it's mine. /petty rant |
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posted: 4/9/2007 at 1:15 AM |
| Quote from shyrunner07 on 4/9/2007 at 12:41 AM: no major traditions here- this was the first easter where hannah really got into the whole "easter bunny coming to visit" sort of thing. She burst into the bedroom just shy of 7 this morning eager to go see....!
still trying to find a balance between what we do and what the ILs do with h on the holidays....MIL insists on coloring eggs too, having the Bunny visit their house etc....it's nice that they love hannah so much, but i wish they'd just back off a bit....she had her turn to do all this stuff with her kids, now it's mine. /petty rant
That can be a tough one!! I haven't had it too bad. My MIL luckily had to deal with the same situation (had 5 kids) so she TELLS me to enjoy them at home and then visit / they'll visit afterward. She didn't like having to take them to her in-laws and celebrate. She did it on Christmas too and going straight there early in the morning was anything but fun. It's hard to strike a balance, isn't it. And it's not petty ranting!! 
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posted: 4/9/2007 at 10:42 PM |
| My folks do what they do at christmas, new year and any other bank holiday. Drink themselves into a stupor. |
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posted: 4/10/2007 at 11:58 PM |
| Quote from djlovesyou on 4/9/2007 at 10:42 PM: My folks do what they do at christmas, new year and any other bank holiday. Drink themselves into a stupor.
Sounds like a few relatives of mine!! LOL
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