RE: EASTER TIME QUESTIONS, JUST FOR FUN :)

[Guest guest]

1.Do you color eggs? If so, do you use kits or try the natural old fashioned way

(beets, onion skins, etc) We use a kit every year and I let me daughter pick it

out. This year it is dying then you get to write on them with gel to look 3D.

>2. Do you hide eggs? Real or plastic? Yes, plastic ones usually.

>3. What's the number one candy you have to put in your kiddo's baskets? I

usually buy peeps and reeses eggs...so I can share too

>4. Is the Easter basket hidden, out in plain site, or handed to the children? I

put them on the dining room table for them to see

>5. Are you spending Easter with immediate family? Extended family? Others? Yes,

with my mom and sister and her family

>6. Are you cooking, barbecuing? Going out to eat? Other? My sisater is cooking

a ham and a chicken. I am bringing the dessert. I am making cupcakes and apple

crisp.

>7. What are some things your parents did for you to make you feel special

>and/or your fondest childhood memories? I always remember the elaborate baskets

that we used to get, egg hunts out back and a delicious dinner to complete the

day.

DE

EDD#2 8/2/04

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[Guest guest]

Great topic! It's fun to see what everyone else's traditions are!!

Let's see, we always buy those kits to color the eggs. I always seem

to forget that after the first 6 eggs I am bored and want to hurry

up. Maybe once the baby comes it will be more fun.

We have never hidden the eggs, not even growing up. However, I do

recall one Easter my grandparents hiding the plastic eggs and they

had like quarters and junk in them. Like I said though, this was

only the one Easter.

I would think Easter could never be Easter without Peeps!!! My

goodness, if we didn't have Peeps it would be a disaster!! I was at

WalMart earlier to get some things for my hubby's basket (34 yrs old

and I still have to make him a basket!!) and I didn't see one Peep

in that whole store...what a bummer!! But, my mom will come to the

rescue, she still makes baskets for everyone. And they aren't your

everyday ordinary Easter basket. She makes more like nests.....out

of rice krispy treats!!! You just prepare the cookie like usual, but

instead of putting it in a 9x13in pain, she use differnt size bowls

and molds them into a nest shape. Later, she usually wraps them in

colorful plastic wrap. So, you get your candy and your basket to

eat!! The whole thing is really for my hubby, I do sneak maybe a few

little pieces, but I can't go overboard, the sugar makes me dump and

I am afraid that my old habits will come creeping back. I was a true

chocoholic pre-op!!

The baskets are always is plain site.

We usually spend Easter with our family. Every year is a little

different. We were going to visit my mother in law and sister in

law, but I have a nasty cold and wouldn't want them to catch it. I

had gotten it from my folks, so we are just going to visit them.

Last year, I cooked dinner. This year, due to being pregnant, my OB

saying to get lots of rest, and the fact that I am nursing a cold, I

refused to cook. So, my mom is cooking. She's making ham and turkey.

I would have to say that those " nests " my mom has always made for us

always made things special. No one else's mom's did anything cool

like that. It has always been our tradition. We never really did the

big Easter dinner thing, for some reason our family just never did.

But Easter wouldn't have been the same without those special

baskets. Whether I really needed all that candy or not, she still

made sure we had them. Heck, I even had one two years ago right

before my surgery!! Today is my anniversary by the way....

Hope you and your family have a wonderful Easter, Robin!! I can't

wait till next year when I have my baby girl to buy goodies for!!

Beverly

Pittsburgh, PA

RNY 4/10/02 335-------145

First Baby...ITS A GIRL!!!

EDD 6/16/04

> . Do you color eggs? If so, do you use kits or try the natural old

fashioned

> way (beets, onion skins, etc) i did not know there was an old

fashioned way,

> we use a kit. i did think if food coloring though but we did not

try it.

>

> 2. Do you hide eggs? Real or plastic? this year we are, we usually

are not

> home but we are staying home this year and I am hidind them in the

yard tonight

> for the kids.

> 3. What's the number one candy you have to put in your kiddo's

baskets? I

> get the reeses eggs and herhseys miniatures every year so I can

share with them,

> lol..

>

> 5. Is the Easter basket hidden, out in plain site, or handed to

the children?

> I have it out in plain site for them to find in the morning, like

when santa

> comes.

>

> 6. Are you spending Easter with immediate family? Extended family?

Others?

> Not this year. Just me, Pup, the kids and my brother who lives

across the street.

>

> 7. Are you cooking, barbecuing? Going out to eat? Other? usually

have a baked

> ham dinner every year but this year i want and am craving ( prego

problems) a

> boiled ham dinner with carrots, cabbage, potatoes, rolls, ect.

and

> strawberry shortcake for dessert, uummmm,ummmm, I cannot wait for

tomorrow. Oh yeah,

> gotta have vinegar to put on top

>

> 8. What are some things your parents did for you to make you feel

special

> and/or your fondest childhood memories? i did not have the

greatest of things as

> a child so a store bought easter basket to us was a really big

deal and we did

> at least get those each year. I am teaching my kids that this is

NOT about

> the bunny though but about JESUS, like I try to get thru their

heads at

> Christmas.

>

>

> God Bless,

> Robin, NorthEastern, NY

> EDD- July 27th, 2004

> IT'S A BOY!!!!!!

> Mommy to:

> &

> (twin boys 7 1/2),

> Madison, daughter, 5 years and

> Wife to Pup 15 years (October 31, 1988)

> Gastric Bypass Surgery-

> October 18th 2002

> Start-378, current- 246(pregnant)

> goal 170 after baby

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

1. We colored eggs today after hours of bugging me, LOL! We used a

kit.

2. We hide eggs at whomever's house we go to, my cousin has

children of similar age as mine so we coordinate who gets what. We

hide the plastic kind with mini toys (lizards and superballs this

year) and gumballs, short smartees to fit in the eggs and in a few

there will be a note to come find me, I got some sand art at the

dollar store. We have 7 kids under 8 years old this year, they will

each have there own color to look for and they will be hidden in my

aunts yard.

3. Always a chocolate easter bunny and then things like peanutbutter

cups and blow pops, gum and a toy of some sort. I also got some

glitter body stuff for each girl this year.

4. The easter basket is always on the kitchen table with a name on

it so they know which one is theirs, I give them both the same

things maybe a different color, just so there isn't any fighting.>

5. We spend easter with my mom's side of the family. She has 5

siblings, as does my dad. Each sibling is married and has a child

or children. One uncle has 6 kids ages 15-2. So there will be

approximately 35-40. Some of siblings kids are married and have

kids, so you can imagine. They are throwing me a baby shower next

weekend and there are 40 people invited, mostly relatives from both

sides of the family! It's nice having a big family there was always

someone to play with as a kid.

6. Everyone brings something to this event, I've been asked to make

a dessert, so brownies is as inventive as I'm getting this year. My

mom is bringing baked mac and cheese and my sister is baking

cookies. My aunt is cooking a ham, other than that, there will be

too much food to even imagine and everyone will take home leftovers

so my aunt isn't stuck throwing stuff out.

7. My parents basically did the exact same thing we do for our

girls, except my brother and sister prefered white chocolate, so

their bunnies were always white and mine was the " real deal " . We

got baskets until we left home, which is pretty sad, LOL. I

remember that the last basket I got, had perfume and a chocolate

bunny! We never did an easter egg hunt when I was a kid, I started

that with my own kids and relatives. We always got a new outfit to

wear to whatever easter celebration we went to. I do that with my

girls, since they only really get dressed up at christmas and

easter, it's a big deal.

Jenn, mom to 7 1/2, Caroline 4 1/2 and Baby Emma due whenever

she feels like it in the next 3 weeks or so.