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To hope it pisses down in the morning so I can tell the DC the easter bunny had to leave the eggs inside?

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badtasteflump · 07/04/2012 21:55

Because the alternative is me having to sneak out of bed at six am so I have time to run around the garden in my slippers and nightie, to make a trail of easter eggs before they wake up!

If it rains, or if I assume it will, I can hide all the eggs around the house tonight and tell the DC the easter bunny left their eggs indoors because he didn't want them to get wet Smile. And I can have a little bit of a lie in.

Why oh why did I start these traditions when the DC were born? And why do they remember them every years Confused

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badtasteflump · 07/04/2012 21:56

'year' even Blush

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southeastastra · 07/04/2012 21:56

you froot loop

just leave them on the table with a stuffed rabbit (if you must) like more normal people Grin

AgentZigzag · 07/04/2012 21:57

Definately hide them inside Smile

I'm sure you can come up with a plausible reason if the weather doesn't oblige, it was raining in the night/easter bunny was cold and wanted to come inside etc Grin

lolajane2009 · 07/04/2012 21:58

i'd just say the easter bunny left them inside as he is getting old and cant hop so well no more.

pinkyp · 07/04/2012 21:59

How about leaving a note at the door to the garden saying there inside this year as there too good at finding them in the garden Wink

FrillyMilly · 07/04/2012 22:02

I've hidden them in the house. DD wakes up before me so I wouldn't get chance to run around outside in my jimjams without her wondering were I had gone. There's more hiding places inside too as our garden is just a lawn with a small weed flower bed.

DPrince · 07/04/2012 22:04

Leave them inside as 'it was raining during the night when he came'.

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badtasteflump · 07/04/2012 22:05

Grin at all suggestions so far. I feel less of a bad mother for contemplating it now Smile

Would nobody other than me seriously plan to set their alarm at six to be the easter bunny? Am slightly worried that I really am not normal now.

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badtasteflump · 07/04/2012 22:08

Last years I was so determined not to get up early that I put the eggs out (slightly pissed) at about 2am in the dark (obviously). Went to bed feeling very smug and perfect-mother-ish.

Next morning DC2 found one of the eggs in a flower border, plopped down amongst a nice squidgey pile of cat shit. Honestly.

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LoonyRationalist · 07/04/2012 22:13

Our easter bunny doesn't make it until 11am at the earliest. He normally posts the dc a note and then rings the doorbell and runs away ;)

there is absolutely zero chance of our easter bunny stiring herself at 6am especially as the pil are staying and will get up with the dc so she gets a lie in 'til 9:30

welliesandpyjamas · 07/04/2012 22:20

Dear me, no, confuse them a little and do it indoors this year. Pretend you live in a flat. Hide the big eggs in the washing machine but don't switch it on

Nospringflower · 07/04/2012 22:23

I am going to set my alarm for 6 am (or maybe 6.30) to put out our eggs. Thought about doing it tonight but am really tired and cant be bothered. So, you are perfectly normal - or - I'm as nuts as you [busmile]

DPrince · 07/04/2012 22:25

No, I don't do it. We have had a easter egg hunt before. Never entered my head to pretend the easter bunny did it. DD knows dh did it and it was about 2pm.

BigHairyFlowers · 07/04/2012 22:32

My reception age DS's teacher told the class that the Easter bunny hides all the eggs in the garden - he has been repeating this to me pretty much every day of the holidays, seemingly ignoring the fact that the Easter bunny has never once left his eggs in the garden.

I told him that if it rains in the night then the bunny lets him/herself into the kitchen and hides them there instead.

He seemed ok with that. Phew.

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badtasteflump · 07/04/2012 22:32

Nospringflower so I am normal [busmile]

Although until I read your post I was thinking it was ok to have them indoors this year. Now I know you'll be up at six winning the mother of the year award, I'm kind of compelled to do the same [buconfused]

Anyway, for all of you who think the 6am thing is mad - I was up until one in the morning today/last night 'preparing' for the easter egg trail. I usually buy loads of tiny little eggs (preferably wrapped in foil) to make the trail 'route' to follow, but couldn't only get cadburys mini eggs (ie ones not wrapped in foil). Therefore I spent an hour cutting up little squares of tin foil and individually wrapping mini eggs with it [bublush]

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BigHairyFlowers · 07/04/2012 22:34

In fact, he had never heard of the Easter sodding bunny til the teacher told him that he/she would leave him a load of cocking eggs in the garden [buhmm]

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badtasteflump · 07/04/2012 22:35

There's an Easter Sodding Bunny with Cocking Eggs? Easter at your house sounds loads more interesting [bugrin]

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welliesandpyjamas · 07/04/2012 22:36

[bushock] at tiny squares of foil

PooPooInMyToes · 07/04/2012 22:36

How do people do this? Do you just hide them and let then run around and find them or do it as a trail that they follow.

Don't actually know how to do it!

BigHairyFlowers · 07/04/2012 22:37

I was just assuming with the sodding and cocking. He's never visited before, and you know what rabbits are like [bugrin]

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badtasteflump · 07/04/2012 22:41

Well PooPoo I have lots of little (hand wrapped [bugrin]) mini eggs which I make a trail with to lead them from egg to egg - which is (slightly) hidden behind a plant or something. I should probably just leave them to run around and find them but my OCD doesn't allow that Blush.

Oh and the Easter Bunny writes the name of the DC each egg is for on the boxes with his special bunny writing so fights don't break out.

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AnnaFender · 07/04/2012 22:42

Where were you lot on my earlier thread?? I was asking what people did with the easter bunny, I don't think my 4 year old has a clue about the easter bunny and I can't remember from when I was little [buconfused]. Not gonna start now, enough credit being robbed from me with Father Christmas and Tooth Fairy (no lost teeth yet, but she knows all about that one!) so the easter eggs are from ME!!!

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badtasteflump · 07/04/2012 22:45

Ooh that's not the spirit Anna [bushock]#

Think my problem is having a mother who brought me up in a world where every day was like an episode of the Waltons - damn her [bugrin]

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startail · 07/04/2012 22:46

The beauty of older DDs.
Mine have said they'll do something out the way so long as I organise a Easter egg hunt.

Not that I have any good ideas.

Nospringflower · 07/04/2012 22:47

Badtaste you will definitely win mother of the year award doing a trail [bugrin].
Our eggs are just randomly spread around the garden and some are so high up that there is no way a bunny could reach (as has been pointed out by my children). I love it - my dad did it for us even when we were adults!

But, I do wish I had thought to say it was an egg hunt and had sod all to do with any Easter bunnies [busmile].

I once was at my brothers house and while I was having a shower could see him doing something in the garden. Was sure he must be doing drugs but he was really hiding eggs everywhere!

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