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

I've never known it either, only read about it, mainly on here or similar :-). As for Santa, they find out soon enough that he isn't real, some pretend they still believe to please parents.

People worry too much about such things. Something that is supposed to be fun should not cause stress!

Of course they do.

The easter bunny brings an easter basket in our house.

So many cool people on this thread

I’m the complete opposite of cool 😂, but it never occurred to me to pretend the Easter bunny was real.

What's an Easter basket?

A basket with Easter/Spring things in it.

It’s a lovely tradition especially if a trail is hard ( eg central London!)

You can still hide the egg and pretend the Easter Bunny brought it. He's not really at the age when he will question it or overthink it. We had the bunny in our house but it was quite lighthearted, I'm not sure if anyone truly believed in it but the Easter fun in our house came from searching for the eggs. I could never remember where I'd put them, and eventually had to resort to making a list!

Shops are open tomorrow. Morrisons had some mint Easter stuff in. Not just eggs.

I've got a picture of my son aged about 3 stood next to "the Easter bunny" and he is giving it such side eye even then, it was hilarious 🤣 We've never really made a big thing of it to be honest. He's 5.5 now and last week outright asked if it's real and we just said "what do you think" and he said no "because rabbits don't wear clothes" so we confirmed it's just a bit of fun for Easter and was fine.

We've also preemptively told the truth about the tooth fairy recently because some kids in his class have lost their first teeth recently and he was horrified at the thought of a "fairy" coming into his room to collect teeth from under his pillow. I was absolutely baffled when a mum on the school chat said she'd bought some mini dolls house bits and was going to leave things around the room to look like the tooth fairy had left some of her things in her daughter's room whilst collecting her teeth 🤣

Utterly ridiculous. Don’t make This another thing now. Easter bunny leaving chocolates around the house? It was a mistake, you are not a perfect person too.

I was annoyed because my DP unpacked the shopping and left my DS's egg on the bench. He saw it.
He's 14 🤣

I think that’s such a lovely idea🤷🏻‍♀️

A trivial thing happened.

Next time it happens, I would suggest you don't rush to post about it on the internet.

Can you just play it off saying that THIS egg is something you bought for the family or to give to a friend, and get something else for to give him on Easter "from the Easter Bunny"?

I know it's tricky when you have the primary responsibility for a small child and need to sneak in your Easter/Christmas/etc. secret shopping - you feel relieved that you managed it and it's done, and it's stressful to have that undone. Can you ask your husband to pick up the replacement? Also do make sure he understands why this upset you, so he's more careful in future.

That’s what I’d do.

So you would take it down and put it on the floor?

The Easter bunny came to my house in the 90's, and I can remember believing he was real for a few years. The Easter bunny bringing the same eggs anyone could buy from the supermarket was no less believable then santa bringing the same toys people could buy from toy shops.

The people saying that not believing in Easter bunny didn't effect their belief in santa, that's because you never believed. Quite different if OP's child is 5/6, and can remember believing and the parents playing along with it last year, as that introduces the idea that parents can fake magical characters.

Hold on….. since when is the Easter bunny a real thing like Santa ( still ridiculous but more socially acceptable).

I think it just depends on the kid/what you're used to.

My son fully believes in Santa (which is awesome, I love it!) but he's never wanted his stocking in his room, it has to be downstairs. From a really young age he'd ask lots about how he gets in, will he know not to let our cat outside and all sorts.

So something like leaving fairy furniture in his room just wouldn't occur to me, it would just complicate things. And it's not something I'd ever heard of people doing before.

So apparently the vast majority of people weighing in here have never prepared a surprise for a child and, if they had done so, would not mind a bit if that surprise had been removed from its hiding spot and left out out on the floor?

OP, I am amazed at the answers you are getting. You had planned something special for your child and your husband spoiled it. I would be mad too. I always hid my children's Easter candy so that it would be a surprise on Easter morning and my husband would not have dreamed of leaving it out for the children to see ahead of time.

Just this moment realised that my family tradition of the Easter bunny originated from the non-British side of my family.

Well, it's a thing for my kids too now

Aww that’s cute! Love the effort haha

I’ve not heard of it either and it would have fascinated me as a child.

For our DC we’ve used the French tradition of a tooth mouse.

Like your DS I was a bit nervous about FC and the Easter Bunny in the sense that I’m not sure I would have liked the thought of actually coming across them making their deliveries. But in a way that dash of fear added to the fun. I mean that’s why people like roller coasters.

Totally.. and then they get to teens and want to grow up quick, then they will have a long time as adults knowing the dark grim side of the world. Childhood is fleeting but the memories are forever. Keep the innocence and magic for as long as possible.