We are not religious people, so for us Easter really is about the chocolate.  In our home, the Easter bunny barely even registers for the kids, as they somehow already know that it’s “people who put the eggs out.  Too bad that they are too smart for their own good!

We wanted to keep it very simple again this year.  Forgoing the big dinner and just making it about the kids.  In our home on Saturday I put out the easter baskets full of goodies and then scattered little chocolate eggs around.  Grandma was visiting and helped the kids enjoy their treats.  My sister-in-law, being totally excited to experience Easter for real this year with her daughter, put together an outdoors egg hunt.  She stuffed countless plastic eggs with chocolates, candies and small toys, then hide them around one of the fields here on the farm.  She had a ball!  And so did the kids!  She made a great Easter bunny!

Now we are eating ourselves into diabetes with all the chocolate!  I have to admit that am just as bad as the kids!  It’s out so it’s hard to resist.  I could hide it somewhere, but quite frankly I don’t want it sitting around for the next 4 months waiting to be eaten.  So my kids will live on a sugar high, periodically brought down with the sneaking of health foods in there.  Then they’ll be good till Halloween.  Thank goodness there’s 5 months in between!  It’s also lucky that we don’t celebrate Valentine’s day.  It’s WAY too close to Easter!