I was at Target last week and picked up some Easter Basket Items for Skylar
I thought this “dress me up” felt basket was cute
Nice shades, chick.
I went a bit unique this year and went for a brown, more life-like rather than the cartoony white ones.
Socks and a sparkly Dora pretend cell phone.
Hopefully no one steals her phone.
After I came home, I realized I didn’t buy her any candy! Craft-making gifts took a front seat to candy and I skipped the jelly beans and Peeps.
Her grandma sent her some Peeps in the mail though. So we’ve got the sugar covered. If you happen to want to make Smores out of Peeps, check out Jenn’s post.
If you need Easter Meal Ideas, I have no idea what to tell you because I’m not cooking one!
We are a blended religious household and aren’t really celebrating Easter nor Passover. They’re nice holidays and I love the message in both, but we’re not doing anything special like church, temple, family get togethers (they all live 2000+ miles away), or special meals or food. Unless jelly beans count. The Easter Bunny may bring some of those. And yes, the Easter Bunny is coming.
I bet the Easter Bunny would like Roasted Coconut Ginger & Peanut Butter Carrots. Bunnies like carrots, right?
The peanut butter caramelizes when baked and gives these carrots a great flavor. Bunny approved.From my last post, Spruce it Up & Dippy, thanks for sharing your fave dips of late. And for letting me know what, if anything, you do to spruce up your water.
Questions:
1. If you celebrate Easter, do you have any childhood memories or family traditions? Did you get Easter baskets?
I would wake up on Easter morning to foil-covered chocolate eggs scattered all over the steps and floors, in a trail, that led to an Easter basket with more chocolate, candy, stickers, and little “stocking stuffer” type items.
The best part was not actually eating the chocolate (shocking!) but going around and putting all those chocolate eggs in a basket and finding the ones that were hidden behind furniture or in random places. The thrill of the hunt.
2. Do you celebrate Easter or Passover?
I have posted before Here and Here about our half and half household. We are raising Skylar with love and kindness and hoping to shape her into a wonderful person who cares about others and the world around her. We don’t label her, and I don’t label myself, as a true practicing member of any one religion. We are spiritual without following the tenets of any one religion.
3. Do you have any plans for the Easter Weekend?
In addition to working, we have been invited to a few events that take place outside that we hope to attend.
Hopefully the weather will cooperate!
I love the Easter season! Both the faith aspect and the seasonal, family togetherness aspect. It’s such a happy time! :-D
Im celebrating easter with my family this year. I wish they had easter baskets like that when I was a kid. I would be happy with just that! So fun!
I use to love Easter candy. Jelly beans were my favorite.
My parents always did a candy hunt for us all over our house. It was the best, except my older brother would knock me out of the way and get WAY more candy than me, so my parents would keep extras and even it out. Ha. The joy of having multiple kids. I have friends that still get Easter baskets, and I can’t say I’m not super jealous. We always go to church on Easter Sunday, too. My 91 year old grandfather volunteered to sing in the choir this year, and I kind of can’t wait to see it :)
What is it with grandmas and marshmallows? My mom introduced them to my niece and nephew. Peeps come in all kinds of crazy colors and for all holidays now. Back in my day…..LOL We’ll eat lunch with the family, just “because.” But no church services. I’m sure we’ll watch the kiddos hunt eggs several times ;-)
These days all I make are “adult” Easter baskets. I’ve got roasted, seasoned packs of nuts and some cool kitchen stuff from Cost-plus World Market: multi-colored chop-sticks, mini-plates and DVDs.
Oh my gosh, I used to get SO, SO excited about my Easter basket!! Looks like you picked up some great stuff for Skylar!
My parents STILL hide eggs for us to find AND we still get Easter baskets. It’s fun!! ;)
My brothers and I used to each have our own Easter basket that my mom would hide every year and we’d have to search the house to find. I LOVED it!!! Skylar’s basket is so cute, and what an adorable cell phone. I used to be obsessed with play cell phones when I was little haha!
I love easter! I’m having a BBQ on Easter Sunday which will no doubt include lots of baking too. :D
love your choices of easter treats for skylar! my nieces would just adore that dora phone – dora + sparkles?? total winner!
oh, i loved easter as a child! my parents hid our treats (a mix of chocolate + other little fun items) and like you, the hunting was the best part! i have fond memories of family get-togethers.
one tradition that still lives on is that my mom bakes “paska,” a special easter bread. it always turns out best when the weather is sunny and warm…not going to be like that this year, but it will still be delicious!
ohh you know me and passover! luckily because of my competition prep…it isn’t at ALL that hard to keep since I load up on veggies and protein for the most part and quinoa and sweet potato both passover friendly! the only other thing I am eating is oats, but I have a feeling next week that will be taken out anyways (week before show diet…oh boy I can’t wait for that!)
I love all of the easter colors of everything! the pastels make me smile so much! and PEEPS! omg they are so good haha
xoxox
I feel so bad about your phone being stolen:(:( I had my purse stolen from CHURCH when i was helping out with a kids program!!! The purse and everything in it (which included my iphone!!) was worth over $400 bucks but fortunately my purse and most of the stuff was found a day later in a trash can. Of course my iphone and cash was gone but i got back my keys and license (and gorgeous purse!) But you do really feel violated that it could happen:(
My grandmothers would always buy me so much candy lol which was nice since my parents got us “useful” stuff for eater baskets which was smart for them but not as fun for a kid.
As a kid, our family’s traditions included looking for Easter NESTS (not baskets) that had been hidden in the house or in the garden. I enjoyed the hunt just as much as the chocolate. Later, as a teen, Easter included going to church, as I was a member of the church choir.
Today we don’t celebrate Easter anymore, as we are not a religious household at all, and we don’t have small kids either. But I will dye some eggs and put them in a nest on our dining table, that’s a must!
Our plans for the Easter weekend include chilling on the couch (yeah!), enjoying the sunny weather (finally!), and having brunch with some friends on Easter Monday.
I love Easter but I have a much stronger connection to the nature based origins of the celebration than the Christian meaning – although I was very much brought up with church on Easter sunday and of course chocolate eggs! I now feel better celebrating the spring and new life! At the moment I’m trying to figure out which vegan recipes I can make to take to Easter lunch that all the family will enjoy and of course I’m using your blog for inspiration ;-)
You got Skylar some awesome stuff! I love the bunny– I always preferred lifelike stuffed animals as a kid.
I love Easter! I have a lot of fond memories celebrating at my grandparents’ house. There’d be the standard baskets, easter egg hunts, dyed eggs, etc. It was the one day of the year when I didn’t put up a fight about getting dragged to Mass. I had a turbulent childhood because my parents’ divorced shifted me around a lot. It was nice to just have a time when I was with my family. I also love the feeling of spring!