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Stuffed Bunnies And Family Visits

Easter As Chocolate And Spring

Holiday Yard Decor Gets Weird

Wrap Up And Next Week Tease

Today I'm gonna talk about Easter, my Easter memories. I should have probably had this last week in anticipation of Easter because this episode is gonna drop a few days after Easter here in the United States. But anyway, it is what it is, right? I'm not always completely, completely uh on schedule and and uh what is it and organized these days? I'm pretty busy with my upcoming event in May, so my head's a little uh wonky to say the least. I'm wondering what are your best Easter memories? I guess there's two ways to look at Easter as a religious holiday, which a lot of people do, and there's also Passover, which is one of the um neighboring holidays or um neighboring holidays, what is it? It's a complimentary holiday. I'm not really sure what to say. Let's see. There's Easter, there's also Passover, which is not something that I personally celebrate, but I know a lot of my friends do. So happy Passover, happy Easter, a little bit late. When I was a kid, Easter was kind of a big deal. We would go to church when I was little. Um, we also always got an Easter lily for whatever reason. We had an Easter lily at home, we had an Easter lily for my grandparents. I don't remember them lasting very long, sort of like poinsetta plants for Christmas. But the big deal was that I would get an Easter basket. And my parents, I'm not sure which one, but I'm pretty sure it was more of my mom's um plan, would be that I would leave carrots in the laundry room, right outside right inside the back door for the Easter bunny. Um, we would leave carrots and uh snacks for the Easter bunny on the washing machine, and that's where I would find my Easter basket every morning, Easter morning. So I'd go out there and the carrots, now if you know a rabbit, a rabbit, any self-respecting rabbit would not leave any part of a carrot behind. But when I'd go out there, the carrot would be chewed on, part of it would be left, and there would be my Easter basket. And for me, the best Easter basket was always a See's Candy Easter basket. So there'd be like a chocolate bunny, and there'd be some chocolate Easter eggs, and when I was really little, I remember doing the Easter egg hunt in the backyard, and that was always a lot of fun. And I remember my dad and I would color Easter eggs um probably on Saturday before Easter, and that was always a lot of fun too. I don't remember eating that many Easter eggs, like you know, the hard-boiled kind. Um, maybe my dad and my mom ate those, but I wasn't a big fan of hard-boiled eggs when I was a kid. I just liked decorating them, and that was always a lot of fun, and then they would hide them in the yard and then I'd go find them. So maybe it wasn't the best thing to eat them if they'd been outside in the sun for a while. Not sure about that. It sounds kind of risky to me now. I also remember getting, in addition to just the chocolate, I remember getting Easter bunnies, like stuffed Easter bunnies for Easter. And in particular, and I think it's still here somewhere in the house, I saved it, but there was like a two-foot hot pink Easter bunny that was one of my favorite toys at the time. I carried that around with me, and I remember pictures being taken with it, in particular over at my dad's parents' house in my Easter dress with my little Easter shoes. I think they were black patent with the little white socks. So I do remember when I was really little, we would go to my mom's parents' house and then my dad's parents' house for Easter, just like Christmas and Thanksgiving. But because we weren't terribly religious, that whole um schedule kind of dropped off by the time I was maybe a teenager. We ended up going out to eat, certainly for Easter. We went to probably the cafeteria, because that's what my grandparents like to eat, and later on we'd go to different restaurants, we'd take my grandmother out, and um we'd have a sit-down meal for Easter. So eating has always revolved around Easter, but that's about it. Now I think that well, Easter's a day off. Um, Easter's definitely a holiday, it's harder to get things, right? Because businesses are closed, as they should be. But I think it's more of a religious holiday. I think of it as don't don't don't be uh don't be mad at me. I think of it more as a chocolate holiday because there's a lot of chocolate involved, right? There's a lot of there's yeah, there's a lot of chocolate involved. So that's kind of how I see it. Um and it's also with spring. It's all the so the celebration of spring and the bunnies and the chicks, and you should never buy a bunny or adopt a bunny for Easter for a cop for a child because it's a really bad idea. But um stuffed bunnies and bunny toys are okay. But I love I still love bunnies, even though I don't have a bunny as a pet anymore. But I s I just love seeing all the bunny art and the bunny toys and the bunny um pictures and the bunny emojis and everything that we see that's bunny related around this time of year. I think it's really it's really fun and it's really special. In our front yard, we have um because because of Bill's herniated discs, we still have the uh hearse carriage from Halloween, don't judge me, out there. And what I did for Christmas was I decorated it for Christmas. It's got the skeleton who's driving it, and I put a Santa hat on him for St. Patrick's Day. I had like a St. Patrick's headpiece, and now he has bunny ears. There were some, there was a couple walking down the street with their dog this morning, and they actually took a picture of it, not to judge me, but they liked it. And so I was telling them I don't know what I'm gonna do um, you know, for the next, what's the next holiday? Like, you know, 4th of July or something. And um the the husband said, well, you could you could decorate it for Mother's Day. And, you know, I think he made a joke out of it, but I can't remember what that was. But um anyway, it's it's getting to be a little um ridiculous. But then there's so it's it's we're in April, May, June, July, August. So it's five months really until Halloween decorating. And I still it's not even worth putting it back now, but I mean really, but I I still have the Yeti, the uh abominal snowman from the um uh Red Rudolph, uh Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, rather. And uh I've decorated him for I decorated him for Valentine's Day and for St. Patrick's Day, and now he's holding an Easter basket. So uh I'm gonna be chat, I'm gonna have to, we're gonna have to take him down for Halloween. I mean, it's I don't think I can do much for him with him for um Halloween, and he's gonna be taking up space. I mean, I I could if I could create a big spider, maybe it's I think it's too much. Anyway, I digress. But those are some of my Easter memories, and I hope that whatever holiday you're celebrating this weekend, this week, or you know, the past week when you listen to this, that you had a great holiday, that you just had a great day, and next week, well, we'll tackle another topic together. I hope you'll join me.