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 bought the monkey basket for my daughter. I am glad to see you don’t load up on candy either. Bitty(nickname) is allergic to corn, almonds, eggs, and oats sooo that leaves out most precessed food and almost all candy, even the organic ones. Holidays with candy are so hard but at the same time i am happy to have an excuse to change the sugary tradition.
Awww, Skylar’s Easter goodies look so cute! I always liked the toys in my baskets more than the candy. But the candy was good, too. You make her special treats all the time, she doesn’t need Easter candy to be reminded how sweet mommy thinks she is! :)
I’m not a religious person, but I like to celebrate for the food and decorations. My Easter memories from childhood involve chocolate bunnies and cooking (as usual) and going to the bakery; my grandma would buy me a traditional Italian Easter egg bread. It’s a loaf of braided bread with a colored hard-boiled egg in it. I never ate it but loved the colors. I think all of my holiday memories come back to FOOD! LOL :roll:
Thanks for the linky love! <3
My Easter memories definitely consist of eating enough Cadbury cream eggs to make myself practically barf, lol!! :)
I just bought some TJ goodies for my honey’s easter basket (he is 31 so he gets things like pretzels, nuts and ginger snaps!)
This year it is just the two of us and we are not very religious so nothing special! (I’m looking forward to a low-key weekend at home!)
The Carrots look great!
thanks for catching up on all my posts :)
Cute Easter loot.
1. We got Easter baskets, but no where near the amount of candy in them my nieces and nephew get today. The best memory for me was camping over Easter and finding goodies outside the tent.
2. Yes, Easter.
3. Just a gathering at my sisters, pretty casual.
Haha I love the bunny you got her! It kind of reminds me of the bunny I had when I was younger. Speaking of bunnies and jellybeans, one year I didn’t get any orange jellybeans in my Easter basket and when I went down to check on my bunny (who I called bunny most of the time, but she was hot chocolate and marshmallows in the winter), I kid you not, her lips were bright orange.
I agree that the hunt was much better than actually eating the eggs. The Easter bunny used to give us those big Kinder eggs (and some other little things, and then a little gift thing like some mags or books, or perfume, or toys, or whatever. One year we got bikes, though!) and putting those together was way better than eating the chocolate egg itself. Then we’d go to my nonna’s house for Easter dinner. I’m really sad though, because this year will be the second year that I’ll be away from home for Easter, though at least last year we celebrated it before I left. Last year I was in Italy over Spring break so I guess it wasn’t that bad, but this year I’m in Vancouver studying for finals. Bru-tal.
good luck studying!
I loved the chocolate easter egg hunt and decorating eggs with my grandpa :)
I just bought alot of sugar and presents for my nieces and nephews. :P
Somehow my comment posted twice :l …sorry ’bout that.
“I thought this “dress me up” felt basket was cute.” – She’s going to love that!! I know I would have as a little girl.
“We are a blended religious household and aren’t really celebrating Easter nor Passover.” – Same here… My Mom asked me what I was doing for Easter and was pretty sad I wasn’t making a big dinner… Why?? lol. Mom.
Although I don’t celebrate Easter now, I have very fond memories of being a kiddo & searching for dyed eggs, candy & stocking stuffer type things. My brother & I would RUN all over the yard and house trying to get more items than the other. I also remember having wonderful brunches with my whole family (that my Dad cooked). Easter was always a big deal… and fun :) …def good memories.
this part: My Mom asked me what I was doing for Easter and was pretty sad I wasn’t making a big dinner… Why?? lol. Mom.
I know…ppl get so “attached” to their version of the holiday and if you dont do it, they feel sad/bad about it…even when YOU dont!
“I thought this “dress me up” felt basket was cute.” – She’s going to love that!! I know I would have as a little girl.
“We are a blended religious household and aren’t really celebrating Easter nor Passover.” – Same here… My Mom asked me what I was doing for Easter and was pretty sad I wasn’t making a big dinner… Why?? lol. Mom.
Although I don’t celebrate Easter now, I have very fond memories of being a kiddo & searching for dyed eggs, candy & stocking stuffer type things. My brother & I would RUN all over the yard and house trying to get more items than the other. I also remember having wonderful brunches with my whole family (that my Dad cooked). Easter was always a big deal… and fun :) …def good memories.
We actually don’t make a big deal out of a lot of holidays. My husband isn’t any one religion either and I was raised in a very religious household but we never did holidays in the traditional sense. Anything we did do was very solemn. Part of me want to have the fun of the holidays but then part of me just doesn’t want to do anything at all. Plus, like you said the thrill of hunting and finding the eggs is more fun that actually eating the candy. What’s wrong with having a “easter egg” hunt any other time of year, instead of now when it has religious significance. I dunno, I’m still figuring a lot of this out for myself because I was always told what to do and never really thought about it. Now I have to decide how I feel about everything. Skylar will love all her stuff :D As long as she has fun, that’s all that matters.
Skylar will love her Easter basket!
When I was little I would wake up in the morning and my Easter basket was hidden somewhere in the house (by the Easter bunny) and I had to find it. It was so much fun!