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!
oh yes, we always got easter baskets, and our family tradition was coloring eggs, honey baked ham and freshly baked bread, it was glorious! this year, we’re headed over to my in-laws, should be a lot of fun!
We used to do an Easter Egg hunt and the ones we found made up the bulk of our Easter Basket – although we did each get a small chocolate bunny and a small toy of some kind.
Since I no longer live with my parents I don’t really celebrate the religious aspect of Easter. It has been a time for family to get together, share a meal, and be together. This year is the first year we are not travelling for Easter.
Easter weekend plans: working at the paintball field. Good thing Monday is a holiday from work so I can catch up on food prep, laundry and maybe have some “down time”.
That Easter basket is the cutest thing ever! My mom use to give me little stuffed bunnies and chocolates but not anymore :(
I celebrate Easter and I will be teaching my same Sunday school class in the morning like usual. Adorable little 3-year-olds. well, some of them ;) Saturday will be just as busy though because it’s my nephew’s birthday party! I can’t believe he just turned five!
I do remember getting Easter baskets when I was young. We always spent Easter with family and my Grandma always did up these huge baskets with bubbles, toys, a little candy and then we would do an Easter egg hunt. And then my brother and I would spend the rest of the day rehiding the plastic eggs over and over for one another.
“Adorable little 3-year-olds. well, some of them :)” — isn’t that the truth..ha!
Oh it’s SUCH a fun age. lol
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When I was little I’d get little stuffed animals and plastic easter eggs in my basket. My family was never big on the whole candy thing, and it still amazes me how much people get into the candy at this time of year! I actually haven’t even had one piece yet (not on purpose though… i love me some reecee eggs, just haven’t been able to shell out the money for ’em!). Anywho, since I’m not going “home” (whatever that is…) for Easter, I’ll be staying in town and spending the day with Ryan! We don’t have anything special planned, but I’m sure it’ll be a relaxing day!
We always got baskets. In fact, I think I was still getting them a couple years ago. And my mom (ahem, the easter bunny) hid them when I was still in college. She didn’t want her kids to grow up.
I just wrote a post about what I am putting in my kids Easter baskets……:)
I am noticing thats the common theme right now among bloggers!! I love how we all think so much alike!!! LOL
omg those carrots look delicious! We’re not really big into Easter. If my parents didn’t live so close we probably wouldn’t celebrate it at all. But, my mom is big into having the family come over for dinner, so we’ll do that on Saturday night. Kevin and I usually take off for the weekend – to Banff, Lake Louise, or Radium… but it’s just so darn expensive so we opted out this year. I want to try and go to the mountains on Sunday though, it’s so peaceful there!
I’m not a fan of cooked carrots… but OMG your sound so good! You may have converted me. :)
I love that felt basket I’m sure Skylar will have fun dressing it up :)
we’re not religious either so I’m glad to have firends coming into town for awedding that are going to go out to eat with us :)
OMG I love all the colorful Easter stuff at Target! Looks like you got some goodies! So fun! :)
I excited to have a little girl of my own to buy cute Easter stuff for! I celebrated Easter growing up. I have a big extended family, so we’d get together somewhere for a picnic and all the kids would get Easter baskets full of treats and toys and then we’d have an egg hunt. We used to hunt actual eggs and we’d decorate “people eggs”, or eggs decorated like people or animals, but now we do plastic eggs with candy or something in them.
We always got easter baskets as kids…and still do now lol. My mom always buys me like 5 boxes of peeps because they are my FAVORITE!!
Yes, we celebrate Easter. My son is too young to understand the true meaning of Easter, but he knows it’s about Jesus filling the world with hope and life.
I got J’s easter basket yesterday. It’s tough to find boyish Easter things, so I went to A.C. Moore and got a plain wicker basket. I got that little paper grass stuff for it, an activity book, some eggs to put some candy in, one of those tiny plant-your-own-basil thingies, gardening gloves, and bubbles. Can’t wait!
I love the stuff you found for Skylar — I need to find those playdough chicks for my niece! She’d love those.
Yes we have always celebrated Easter — usually it just means church Sunday morning and then a big brunch meal, then play games/watch movies for the rest of the day. Now it has turned into a day of going from my parents’ to Jason’s mom’s to his dad’s. Sometimes I wish we would just stay home and celebrate alone.
I am totally going to make Jenn’s peep smores. They are so cute!
lmk if you make them…well, im sure youll blog about it :)