Husband spoiled Easter bunny surprise

[Sleepingallday]

I bought an Easter egg for my DS weeks and weeks ago. Purposely bought it during a supermarket shop when he wasn’t with me. Saw a dinosaur themed one and had it in a Tesco carrier bag in the utility room on top of a cupboard. Was looking forward to doing a little hunt and the look on my sons face when he found it.

husband has taken it off the top off the cupboard to get to something and didn’t put it back up. DS just went into utility room and found it on the floor, spoiling the surprise.

AIBU to be gutted and pissed off

Come on, OP. Unclench a bit. It’s Good Friday. He’s hardly found his Christmas presents in November.

Did anyone die?

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I did not realise anybody actually pretended the Easter Bunny was real.

oops.

Oh gosh, mildly irritated would be highest I could muster, and even then it would be an effort.

OP, I think you’re getting a hard time. As an adult, of course the thought of a bunny delivering eggs is preposterous, but children like to believe in magic, and there are so few years where they get to experience this joy. Our family have always made a big deal about Easter and I’d be sad if the surprise had been ruined for my child, so I do get it; it’s the carelessness when you’ve put effort into something special.

So what? He’s a child. Provided he gets chocolate and presents, he really won’t mind who they come from.

Who said hes massive?

We do the Easter bunny, hes meant to be just an actual rabbit... we shut the cats out of 1 room for a few hours so the bunny can 'safely' come set hide the tiny eggs without the cats hunting him.

No one has ever suggested hes some giant nightmare-ish creature lol.

Tell DH to buy another one because you ate this one.

YANBU.

Not as child I didn't but I do now 😉

The Easter bunny rabbit wasn't around in Jesus' time.

I think even our 3yr old would think we were bonkers if we tried to pretend there was a real Easter bunny who went around delivering eggs.

We've always done an egg hunt with smaller eggs and just given the main egg to our kids. And they have never believed in the Easter Bunny. I couldn't feel anything more than mild disappointment about this, OP.

Because most people enjoy children’s belief in magic, as do the children themselves.

When did Easter bunny become a thing? Easter is about Jesus & his resurrection. I can’t see the relevance of a pretend bunny….

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Op is getting a really hard time here and I don't know why.

Of course you'd be pissed off when you've put time and effort into a nice surprise for your DC, and your DH, who has made no effort, then ruins it through carelessness.

No, no one has died but it's still disappointing and frustrating.

Let's not get into what was or wasn't around

Well, he's been around for a good long while!

I'm 55 and he was around when I was very little!

Honestly think that the stress and pressure mothers (and let’s be honest it’s almost exclusively us) put ourselves under for stuff like the Easter bunny and Santa is slightly ridiculous. It’s actually been a relief that DD1 is a massive sceptic and at the age of 5 announced she knew Santa wasn’t real, and has never believed in an EB or tooth fairy. She still loves Christmas, going to see Santa, putting her stocking and mince pie out, Easter egg hunts and looking under her pillow after she loses a tooth like any other child. I just don’t have to come up with increasingly absurd answers to her totally reasonably questions.

Kids get excited about finding hidden chocolate eggs whether they believe a (terrifying) giant bunny has brought them or not. The power of imagination is the thing here, not whether they really think it’s real or not.

Because for most people Easter eggs aren't a surprise. The idea of the Easter Bunny is nowhere near as widespread as Father Christmas so the whole set-up is a bit odd to most people and it's hard to see why it's such a big deal.

OP has chosen to make Easter eggs something that's a secret surprise which is more (and unnecessarily) complex than it is for most.

Haha yeah this
I never thought the Easter bunny was supposed to be real, neither did my DDs when they were little.
Maybe your DH didn’t realise you were doing easter bunny?

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It’s just a bit of fun while they’re kids isn’t it, and once they stop believing it’s no big deal. As a kid I could see all the eggs in the shops and presents in shops at Christmas, found them hidden in my mums cupboards sometimes but I still believed. Kids imaginations are magical things

It wasn't deliberate. You're being precious.

I agree.

Why is everyone completely missing the point that stupid Dad didn't engage his brain, yet again and realise that the egg had been put up on the cupboard so that child didn't see it.
Presumably he's always leaving stuff lying around for the support human to clear away.