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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 22:51

Ooh have just thought, maybe I can get up a bit later and get DH to stand guard outside the DCs bedrooms. When they wake up he could pretend one of them has peed the bed or something (he could make a little water puddle on their mattress for authenticity), and say therefore he's going to give them all a quick dip in the bath before they get dressed.

In the meantime I can be outside making the trail [busmile]

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LesbianMummy1 · 07/04/2012 22:51

Ds aged 5 was told by his teacher that he was the easter bunny and the ta was mrs Rabbit. The bunny had already been tonight. We had to break tradition a couple of years ago, as when we only had dd he left one egg per year of her life but realised. With a 5 year age gap that would not work as one getting 8 and one getting 3 would be cruel Blush now he is just lazy and dumps them on the table in
Two piles Wink

puffinnuffin · 07/04/2012 22:59

The Easter bunny has already hidden the eggs complete with Peter Rabbit trail. Apparently you are supposed to leave a carrot for the bunny (according to my daughter).

Ineedacleaneriamalazyslattern · 07/04/2012 23:01

Haha I said to someone tonight that the Easter bunny and birthday balloons and banners were 2 things I'd never started while I was trying to think of inventive places inside to hide a chocolate trail.

mrsgboring · 07/04/2012 23:07

Finished my trail an hour ago - the little eggs with clues are hidden inside, with the final big clue spelled out in mini eggs and then photographed, printed out and pasted onto card and made into a jigsaw directing them to their playhouse outside where the big eggs will be.

smug [bugrin]

BigBoobiedBertha · 07/04/2012 23:20

Crikey MN is an education. I never realised that people actually pretended the Easter Bunny was real. Nobody I know of in RL who bothers pretending. Not sure if I feel guilty about not making up stories or smug that I haven't got myself into a pickle about what the story should be. [busmile]

Mine are 11 and 8 now and still like to do a hunt but I just make them stay away from the windows and go and hide them myself just before they go and look. I wouldn't do it if it was raining though or at least, I would do it indoors.

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badtasteflump · 07/04/2012 23:52

MrsG No! You haven't seriously done that? [bushock]

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AwkwardMaryHadAnEasterLamb · 07/04/2012 23:59

Oh. I just set my alarm for 6.30am in anticipation of hiding the eggs in the garden....I should do it in the house now shouldn't I! SO obvious! Thank you!

AwkwardMaryHadAnEasterLamb · 08/04/2012 00:02

My dh has in the past taken the girls into the kitchen as he "saw" the Easter Bunny's tail flashing past the window and they had to hide...(whilst I whizzed around the garden hiding eggs in flowepots) but this year one DD is 7 and will suss us out...I HAVE to come up with clues...or footprints...or SOMETHING!

valkilly · 08/04/2012 00:12

MN is definitely educational! I had no idea what the Easter bunny thing was about til I read this thread. I have never done an egg hunt either. We just give an egg to each other as a present and say "Happy Easter". A chocolate Easter egg that is, not just an ordinary egg. That would be plain weird.

What you lot are doing sounds like fun but a lot of hard work! The jigsaw thing is mad very impressive!! :)

WellBlowMe · 08/04/2012 00:14

This thread has shocked me possibly more than any other MN thread ever.
Really? Really really? You do this?
I have NEVER met - or heard of - anyone who has easter eggs hidden in the garden at easter.
Mum buys an egg at Tesco; Grandma brings an egg; Aunt sends an egg. That's it.
Lots of chocolate after lunch.

A Bunny?!?!?!?!?

Where am I?

AwkwardMaryHadAnEasterLamb · 08/04/2012 01:24

BlowMe it is all born of insecurity....my eggs were dumped on the sideboard therefore in order for me to feel that I am doing better than my parents did, I have to create a whole "thing" around the eggs.

I just gave up though and hid them around the sitting room. [bugrin]

I am relived I dont have to get up at 6 and have the rain as an excuse.

AwkwardMaryHadAnEasterLamb · 08/04/2012 01:25

"Relieved" not relived!

piprabbit · 08/04/2012 01:29

My parents will do a hunt with my DCs when we see them on Sunday. My MIL will do a hunt with my DCs when they see her on Monday.

I do not do a hunt. It would be overkill [bushock] [bugrin].

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 08/04/2012 01:37

Tomorrow morning:

my little darlings will totter through to the dining room to find their Easter Mugs and little fluffy bunnies.
Then we'll eat breakfast (boiled egg and dippy soldiers for DH and I , toast for DCs)

Then I'll hide the tiny fluffy chickens (they are about 1" tall) in the garden. I've got about 25 of them. Might hide some eggs if there is anywhere suitable. The DCs will be forced to wait in the front room and watch rubbish TV.

Then they can find the hidden loot, Bunny Ears compulsary.
Then we do Egg&Spoon race (forward, running backward and blindfolded)
Then a Tramps Picnic Race (putting on clothes- hat,scarf,gloves,,coat) -might make them hold the Egg and Spoon if the eggs have survived.

The guinea-pigs will hopefully be in their run with their Judging Pants on.


Then I've done my Good Mum Bit.
Luckily my DCs are still willing to do all this nonsense. But probably not for much longer [busad]
Lizzabadger · 08/04/2012 01:39

Is this some American import? Never heard of it before.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 08/04/2012 01:41

I think the Easter Bunny is a USA thing.

We watched Hop today, very funny in bits, but set in USA.

There were no Easter Bunnies when I was a child.

AwkwardMaryHadAnEasterLamb · 08/04/2012 01:42

Ooh Llisa I am stealing your egg and spoon race! What fun! [bugrin] the DDs will love that!

But I feel your "Tramps Picnic Race" is rather un-PC [bushock] it's like a post on Regretsy recently regarding the poltical un-correctness of a recent "Hobo Wedding" in which the couple celebrated in "Hobo Style"

Because the depression was sooo cute! And hobo's are soooo sweet in their rags!

Not being mean! But "Tramps Picnic Race" really! Poverty and fun don't make good playfellows!

piprabbit · 08/04/2012 01:44

I will be forcing my children (and DH) to decorate their eggs with smiley faces. The eggs will then be boiled and the children will once again refuse to eat them because they don't like egg. DH and I will have to eat the DCs eggs because they insist on being able to bash the bottom of the shell to stop the witches stealing the shell and using as a boat.

Hurrah - Happy Easter everyone.

AwkwardMaryHadAnEasterLamb · 08/04/2012 01:44

Talking of Easter films and the bunny... I give you...Harvey The Rabbit

Which gave me nightmares as a kid!

HateBeingCantDoUpMyJeans · 08/04/2012 02:07

I love hearing about how everyone does it completely differently. We did an egg hunt in a park on thu, but you found letters that spelt a word instead dd enjoyed it and woke up yesterday and tge day before wanting to go again. Hmm maybe I should have got something ready for today? [badmummy]

flyingspaghettimonster · 08/04/2012 04:46

I never did easter bunny stuff in england... over here I feel like a bad mommy for not bothering with easter baskets gull of gifts as well as the egg hunt and feast. wtf... easter when I was a kid involved a mars bar egg in a mug if at home, or five thousand eggs and a trip to church if with the grandparents. none of this sodding bunny business.

I am grumpy because I can't have property easter eggs, only plastic ones with jelly beans and mini eggs inside. bah humbug.

agnesf · 08/04/2012 05:18

We had the easter bunny in the 70's so I don't think its wholly American (although DPs were heavily influenced by American musicals [busmile])

My childhood bunny always left the eggs hidden in the house. You used be able to get lovely praline filled foil wrapped Suchard ones that you could buy by the ounce from the sweet shop plus we'd get one big egg (always the same type). We'd always count them and there'd never be as many as my Dad said he'd thought he'd heard the Easter bunny muttering under his breath ...

In fact it became a kind of "tradition" of finding a rogue mini egg several months later while putting up the Xmas decorations.

McPhee · 08/04/2012 05:49

I am pmsl at this thread, and 'cocking eggs' has nearly made me wee myself Grin

bochead · 08/04/2012 06:58

Loving this thread!

Especially as DS has oh so kindly invited his muslim best friend and family to join the easter egg hunt too! (Oh how I well enjoy my revenge at Eid as I put my feet up and his mate's Mum does all the work for the kids fun Wink.)

It's bad enough I had to make 7 sock rabbits at the end of term. (note to self - next year ask for cash for them!)

Is the Grinch only for Xmas or is there an Easter version of the cartoon I can download?

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