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

Do people pretend the Easter Bunny is a thing? I have 3 kids, and have genuinely never heard of this.

We do an Easter egg hunt sometimes, and they each get an egg from us and sometimes from grandparents. They tell us which ones they like, or we do it based on what their current favourite chocolate is. They're just bought by us, since when has the easter bunny been a thing?

There was no Easter Bunny when I was a child and I didn't know anyone who did it in the 80s when I had a child. My grandchildren (teenagers now) knew where their eggs came from.

If I'd found an egg up high I'd just assume it had been put out of the way to keep the place tidy until Easter Sunday. Not that it was because it was a secret egg that was being actively hidden.

Why is a bunny and not a chicken? this has just popped into my head after all hens lay eggs, bunnies just er, a bunny. Maybe is should be a magical multi-coloured chicken bringing eggs...

Serves child right for poking his nose into a bag that hadn't been given to him 😉

I completely agree with you. Why do people try so hard to make life difficult for themselves? It doesn't seem to bring much joy (ref all the threads about Easter/Christmas/Halloween/Mothers day being ruined).

If he’s young enough to believe in magic rabbit’s then he’s young enough to not make the link with Santa. You are over reacting

Agreed. This is genuinely the first time I have heard of the 'Easter bunny' being like FC. This mystical bunny must love nipping round Aldi for all their eggs every year.

Yes, yabu- we actually opened our Easter eggs today 🤷‍♀️ just because we felt like it. I bet your child was delighted, don’t worry about it!

and Christmas is about Jesus and his incarnation. I can't see the relevance of coins and an orange hanging up to dry by the fireplace. Still less a horned ungulate.

(I spent today singing at Good Friday services. I still give my sons Christmas stockings, and for years I formed my own chocolate eggs which I hid until Easter morning)

Why does this matter?

I know, right?! While I believed in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy as a small child, the Easter Bunny was one step too far. I actually had to ask my mum what it was, after hearing about it on an American cartoon, and then responded: "that's so silly, if a rabbit was so giant and so clever it wouldn't give us chocolate, it'd probably just kill us!" 😂

Btw OP, I'm going against the grain a bit in saying I think you're right to be a bit pissed off with your husband, he was rather thoughtless there. I'm sure your son will nonetheless have a lovely Easter, and you too xx

Tell him it isn’t for him? You got it for someone else and then get him another one for Easter?! Simple really!

Our youngest does. She's written him a little letter to leave in the garden this year, and made him a present to take home for his bunny children. We tell her he leaves a few tiny eggs in the garden and we hide the rest, much like Santa.

It's just harmless fun. You sound like a bit of a misery guts.

It's easter. It REALLY isn't a big deal.

I am assuming he was still surprised. Just not in front of you. Did you buy it for him or for you 😂

Like the name….very fitting.

It’s so bloody fun sponge mentality. No harm in believing in some magic as a child FGS, are some poster traumatised by Donny Darko?😆Children grow up and deal with reality and all the shit that comes with it soon enough.

I’d be annoyed too OP. DD isn’t bothered by big eggs, we get little eggs to do hunt and sometimes a little toy.

Honestly,this is literally nothing to stress about. It’s not a big deal and doesn’t merit this angst

I used to think like most of the posters on here. My parents didn’t do any of the make believe stuff. I was about six when I realised Santa wasn’t real. Still loved Xmas, getting Easter eggs etc. Had a wonderful childhood.
My OH has always gone so overboard with every holiday. Xmas stockings & gifts, Easter egg hunts, Halloween, the works. I would grumble about it being over the top / over commercialised but join in to keep everyone happy. My OH would say they were creating magic memories for our children. And you know what? Our kids are older now and look back so fondly on all of that.
So maybe having a little bit of magic and make believe in our dreary lives is a good thing!

I'm sorry but this post cracked me up. It's such a stereotypically infuriating, clueless, husband thing to do. My sympathies. :)

Did you tell your DH that’s why it was in there?

He was lazy not just putting it back though!!

Obviously don’t give this to your DS from the Easter bunny now. We always do an egg hunt from the Easter bunny (non branded hollow eggs) and then the shop bought egg from us.

Yes some do! ours even insisted rabbits lay the chocolate eggs and there was no point trying to persuade them otherwise

Tell him the Easter Bunny had loads of extra deliveries to make this year, due to an increase in the population, and lots of his helpers have gone off sick with Norovirus, so he’s been delivering early to some houses and asking mums and dads to hand the eggs over at the appropriate moment.

A version of this was what I told my DN when I arranged an egg hunt for him last weekend because I’d had it in my brain Easter was last week. He didn’t give a shit because he got to eat chocolate.

It's an Easter egg! No one believes it's a real Easter bunny...bunnies don't lay eggs... It's not Santa.

Great post