easter on steroids! ** light hearted **

[tobytomcat88]

I'm up at 3 am feeding and with nothing better to do I'm scrolling through Facebook.

There are dozens of pictures captioned "the easter bunny has been" with a mound of toys, chocolate, money and wrapped presents, one picture even had a new bike!

now I'm not the most religious person but I come from a religious family and at easter we got an egg and a new outfit for church.

when did the easter bunny start comparing himself to santa? The tooth fairy will be exchanging teeth for cars soon ....

am I a tight mother or are these a select few?

Oh I've been laughing to myself at it too! Absolute madness! There's a Facebook group called Mums Life or something, I can't believe all the stops being pulled out!

I feel really bad I've not got my son anything , he's too young to eat chocolate I didn't realise I should spend a fortune on him!

I've seen posts like that too! It's crazy. I just got an egg for my toddler. I'm probably going to eat half of it myself.

I wish I had some of this on my Facebook feed. All I have is a modest amount of chocolate eggs and maybe a lindtt bunny if the mum is a bit keen

I'm not even on Facebook and it never fails to irritate me. Dh always shows me all his friends who do this

We know a couple who had a baby 5 days ago and "the easter bunny has been" to their house too. The baby's 5 days old ffs!

It's alien to me too. We got one egg each from parents and then an egg each from grandparents and a lovely Great Aunt that still buys my DC eggs now. It was A LOT of chocolate for us, it probably lasted until Christmas some years! That's all Easter was, getting a few chocolate eggs. We never made a big song and dance about it, tbh I don't think we even did the whole Easter bunny thang.

I'm not really that into Easter and mounds and mounds of presents at Christmas makes me feel sick enough without doing it at Easter too! I just got them an egg, a chocolate bunny, pair of bunny ears, a book and Hop DVD. They'll be thrilled. The Easter bunny doesn't have a sleigh remember, he couldn't possibly carry a bike around on his back!

I get so tempted to get all passive aggressive on their ass and post that my kids might not have a shitload of presents, but they have me home every day, and i know which they'd prefer
the presents

(Before anyone starts sahm bashing, i'm disabled and home cause of that)

I didn't realise Easter had become such a massive thing..with outfits and books and presents. I thought chocolate was as far as it went but judging by the sheer lengths people on my FB have gone to, I'm clearly an awful mother and 18 week old DD will probably disown me

YANBU.

Tbh I've never done the whole Easter bunny thing, 8yo and 2yo have an egg from me and a few little individual sweets for the snack box from relatives they just get given them by me and eldest doesn't seem too traumatised.

I saw a post on here last night listing the gifts each child had (a few eggs, balloons, books etc) accompanied by a photo and I was a bit miffed as to when this started.

Santa is the only mythical thing I've done though as fail to see the relevance of bunnies, tooth fairies and whatever commercial shit appears next.

I'm 26 and a first time mummy to a 6 month old ds and I think there is a new generation of pfb mums who are majorly competitive my son has 2 teeth a friend at a local play group was gutted he got teeth before her pfb who is 4 days older.

I haven't got him anything couldn't find a nice easter outfit and he doesn't eat chocolate I might let him suck a bit of mine

I thought i has a pfb but my god like I said I'm excited to see what the tooth fairy starts bringing the spoilt pfb generation

I didn't really know Easter was a thing until this year. I brought one small egg for my 20 mo and 3 yo to share which I thought was plenty. But my family have given the DC, chocolate, sweets, toys, cards and money! It's madness.

DS got a bike

But this is purely because him needing the new one happened to occur at the same time as easter and payday.
The easter bunny isn't getting the credit for it and there will be no bragging on facebook.

We bought a box egg each and a packet of mini eggs. My fb is full of people buying six or seven different massive eggs plus this plus that plus the kitchen sink plus a unicorn. Madness. Kids do not need that much crap to binge eat.

YANBU, it's completely ridiculous how this whole Easter bunny thing has got so huge. One of my friends has posted "so the Easter bunny is as big as Santa here" and has posted a pic of her four year old with at least 20 big eggs and loads of Easter themed gifts. It's just another over commercialised event, like Halloween and valentines day IMO. Children do not learn anything about the Easter story by being given shit loads of chocolate!

I'm on steroids for a bad asthma attack when I first opened this thread I thought you were too . Easter on steroids is no fun at all, whichever way you take it!!

My dd is 3.8 and she has had a ridiculous amount of chocolate and 5 new outfits - 1 from mil, 3 from dm and 1 from an auntie. MIL also bought her a Cinderella dressing up outfit and a micky mouse teddy dressed as a bunny. My mum got her a doc mcstuffins play set in addition to the outfits. I bought tickets to the theatre for this bank holiday as a treat and gave them her this morning. They aren't an Easter present as such; I would have taken her anyway as a nice thing to do on our two week break. But, after seeing the ridiculous amount other family members have given, there was no way I was buying more chocolate. It is ridiculous. I do worry she is going to be spoiled, but no one listens to me when I ask them not to buy too much. There is no way I'm posting pictures of it on facebook though. I'm a bit embarrassed by it all to be honest!

I think its started as a backlash against giving chocolate - to get a new t shirt, book or small token gift. But now it's got out of control with people trying to outdo one another.

Until my youngest niece was born we did do chocolate eggs. But as she cannot have chocolate, it seemed mean to give her siblings chocolate and her something else. So we get them a token gift in lieu of chocolate.

Tbh, this year I got teeny eggs to do a hunt for the dc. Dh felt bad and got them slightly bigger eggs. But they've all had eggs from both sets of grandparents, preschool/their clubs so I didn't feel bad at all. Dd1 is nearly 7 and very interested in the Easter story. So we have been talking about it a lot in our house.

My mum always used to give us a new swimming costume ready for the summer when we were little. We've carried this on and got the ds's shorts and tshirt, and mum has got them sandals. (Ie, things they would have anyway, but on easter in place of an egg)

DD (3.5) has had one minuscule egg from me, a bunny from GPs, and I know there will be an egg from other GPs at lunch later, after church. She has only "had" the egg from me so far (bunny hiding in cupboard as shy!) and I've only let her eat half. Clearly I am terribly cruel, and here I was thinking I was doing OK in the human being stakes because I managed not to eat her chocolate in the week I've had it in the house

It's absolutely pathetic and yet another reason I don't have FB.

We go OTT for Easter...it's bigger than Christmas in our house.

DD has SEN and gets so overwhelmed with Christmas as the outside world changes...everywhere is busy, flashing lights everywhere, visitors, school concerts etc. So we keep our Christmas fairly small and try and keep changes very minimal in the house. When Easter comes the outside world stays the same and she can cope with an Easter tree, bunting, cards, gifts etc. DD also has chronic disease and is on a very specialised diet so no chocolate allowed.

We are not on facebook and I don't think anyone knows how easter is inside our home, but it's suits DD and her needs.

HA HA EVERY BLOODY YEAR