Because Fb Easter bragging posts are giving me the rage?

[Missdread]

Aarghhh!!! "All ready for my babies in the morning" with picture of ridiculously huge pile of chocolate, sweets, TOYS (WTF? It's not Christmas!), CLOTHES, Easter trees, bunnies and fluffy chicks. I have oodles of these nauseating posts on my Fb feed tonight. AIBU to think Easter is letting your kids eat chocolate for breakfast and that's it? What the heck is WRONG with people?

I work freelance and am spending this Easter sat sun mon tue working at a council run family event, so my Easter starts next wed. I get to put up with all the children hyped up on sugar and chocolate. But on a happier note my DP made me n the dog breakfast in bed this morning to make up for the hour less in bed

My 2 dc's are getting a lot of eggs this year to be honest. I kept buying a couple when shopping for fear that they'd sell out, and when I put them out I realized they have 9 each, plus a Lindt bunny They're very sensible though and will eat them over several weeks. God knows where they get their self-restraint from... If we went to a service I might buy new outfits, but I draw the line at toys!

Who is to say someone bought their children all that "junk"?

My children have triple that amount, thats because my mum is one of 17, and my Dad was 1 of 8, thats not including Dh family, my sibling, or friends and cousin or Godparents...

Personally I made all of ds2 Easter treats, due to allergies, I cannot stop my family posting me gifts for the boys, no matter how much I have begged them, but my family are a large family who are Catholic and celebrate Easter in a big way.

Today we have done a Easter hunt, we are decorating eggs to roll down a hill, and then afterwards we are having a large family meal in our local pub and will be face timing family in my home town. Tomorrow we will also be going to a big Easter attraction day.

So just because a picture a picture dont assume you know the background of that picture!

As a kid I can remember the breakfast bar being covered in chocolate eggs for me and my sister. My parents only bought us one each; the rest was purchased by family and friends. I have fond memories of making Easter baskets at school, with little chocolate nests, and then while we were in the playground the Easter bunny the teachers used to visit and put mini eggs in the nests.

DD is only 2.5, so no craziness here. We made a basket this morning and the Easter bunny is going to visit later this afternoon.

We used to buy DS a book or computer game for Easter. He had eggs from family members and would end up with about half a dozen so didn't miss one from us. I can see people whose child has an xmas birthday buying things like a bike or swing or some other garden toy, but no need for anyone to be going OTT at all.

fourage

So now Christianity does have an influence on Easter?

I just hate all the judging Eat , I mean if it makes people feel better about themselves about being negative towards another for doing something that harms no one, for me its just

More so a Facebook picture, if you dont like it, block the person, They can control their reaction and who posts on their news feed.

I posted a picture of my kids Easter egg hunt clues... I mean wont anyone think of every small pathetic excuses people, get their knickers in a twist over

Hope your boy loves his trainers, toys and eggs.

bhuddbelly

I also find your post distasteful, I think you should ask for you post to be deleted, its not really the done thing to take a "friends" picture off her personal Facebook, and post it on a large parent website to mock her.

mumofseven how is your bunny?

DH's family don't even send cards for DD's birthday. I'd drop dead with shock if they bought her chocolate eggs!

Our Easter is a bit shit this year. Today and tomorrow are the only opportunity we have to decorate the bedroom so the DCs had chocolate for breakfast, have sat grunting on their tablets for most of the morning and will do an easter egg hunt for malteaser bunny things when the rain goes off. Will do a roast dinner later but would normally make more of a 'thing' but it just hasn't happened this year.

Im in the minority here, I love seeing all my friend's efforts and the smiley children. most of my friends live far away so makes me feel a bit more part of their lives.

Can you honestly not see why someone would find a post laughing at Jesus being nailed to the cross upsetting. Really?

Yeah, cos either you believe:

a) It dIdn't happen. So it's just like someone laughing at a sad film you like.

b) It did happen. But he was the son of God and also he was actually God and is immortal and so being nailed to the cross was just a temporary inconvenience and it all ended well, so it's all good.

Ds has chocolate intolerance so has books and small amounts of money from relatives who would have bought him an egg.

I was a young child in the 80's and definitely had a similar amount of Easter activities as my DC, if not more. Easter egg hunts happened every year at my school and it was in school time so nothing to do with parents. The little eggs would be hidden around the school garden and we were given baskets between 3 of us to find as many as possible. We would make pretend nests to put our eggs in or paper containers. We also made Easter Bonnets. I would have a Thorntons egg from my Grandparents and another big egg from my parents. In fact in comparison, DC'S school is very dull and do not lay on anything at Easter!

My point is that IME Easter egg hunts are nothing new!

I have people intolerance this morning

I think the "It wasn't like this in my day", posts are a worse than the FB photos people are moaning about.

Chill out and have some soothing chocolate

Oh and we would paint eggs at school and my Grandma's house where she would display them. My Grandma would make an elaborate Easter cake but with a tin with a hole in the middle, so that the cafe looked like a big ring!

Well, you would really hate my Facebook posts today! You would have seen a status about me and my husband getting carried away wrapping presents and doing an Easter egg hunt, but instead of eggs we used Tsum Tsums.

DD got -

10 Tsum Tsums
2 Zootropolis stuffed toys
Frozen Lego
Zootropolis Carrot Pen Thing
Stationery
1 Vinyl POP! Figure
1 Book & A Pair Of New Pyjamas
Plus one small egg and a few little Colin caterpillar sweets.

Why?

Because she has Type 1 Diabetes and anymore than 1 small egg would never get eaten. That 1 egg will take her about a month to get through. But I don't see why she should miss out on the fun and egg hunt etc?

She also has other help problems, so when she squealed that 'it's like Christmas' I just thought, good!

Don't worry about what other people are doing or why they are doing it. You might see my pictures and think I'm a hopeless consumer but actually I'm trying to do a nice thing for a little girl who has a tough life!

Each to their own.

But 'getting dressed for Easter' used to be a thing in some (all?) areas.