While shopping for my Easter dinner ingredients, I saw a mom from my daughter’s preschool. She was buzzing around the produce section with 2 big and adorable glitzy furry purple Easter baskets. Hi! Hi! How are you? How are you? And so on and so on. We quickly chatted Easter plans right there next to the carrots. We need carrots to leave for the Easter Bunny! She said and I helped her bag a bunch of those fancy carrots with the long green leafy stems. What a cute idea, I thought. Aha! A new tradition to add to my mix. I got some too. Then, knowing that my girls are younger than hers, my new friend saw my eyes all lit up and added, very seriously: Don’t start anything you can’t continue… because you can’t take it down a notch from one year to the next.
WOW. Now that’s what you call professional advice. From a sunny and smiling energetic woman in a ponytail and workout gear. I mean, BRILLIANT. Way to think ahead.
So I thought — here are a few fun and fabulous things that WON’T suck the hop outta me every single year:
1) GET YOUR EARS ON. Cheap, funny and absolutely adorable for all ages. They usually debut in the baskets (see below).
Guilty of having fun… 3 ears are better than 1!
2) THE BUNNY BRINGS BREAKFAST. As a kid, I remember waking up to a trail of jellybeans down our hallway and through the whole house… all the way to what seemed like massive Easter baskets at our front door. Candy, candy, candy, chocolate, junk. All before 8am. (Which was totally fabulous at the time.) Now I’m thinking that maybe our Easter Bunny might bring breakfast in a basket for our little people? Muffins. Juice boxes. Fruit. Donuts. Mini-cereal boxes. Already got the baskets. And who says jellybeans can’t lead to something fun and functional (that won’t send your kids into a frenzy before church)?
Just add muffins.
3) EAT A BIRD’S NEST. My sister and I had a tradition (as kids) of making these chocolate chip cookies and then decorating them with frosting and glitter and icing to look like painted Faberge eggs. Every. Single. Year. One year, we decorated a cheesecake with green-colored coconut, jellybeans and yellow peeps. It was as EAS-TER as you could get. This year, I’m continuing this tradition of decorative dessert for the grown ups… (based on a shortcut I did back during holiday time). But for Easter, I’m gonna turn that cheesecake into a (spoiler alert!) massive bird’s nest! Let’s just say I got inspired by the fabulous and friendly Jenny Cookies’ new book Eat More Dessert. (My inspiration came from her Brownie Nests creation on page 97… fabulous… get the book to see what I’m talkin’ bout!)
Image courtesy of JennyCookies.
Tha-tha-tha-that’s all folks (compliments of Bugs Bunny). Now I’ve gotta go boil me some eggs. Time’s a wastin’!
WHAT ARE YOUR FABULOUS & EASY FAMILY TRADITIONS FOR EASTER?
