Mamahood.org » holidays http://www.mamahood.org Everything mom related Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:21:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 When is Easter, anyway? http://www.mamahood.org/2011/02/26/when-is-easter-anyway/ http://www.mamahood.org/2011/02/26/when-is-easter-anyway/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:52:15 +0000 Jenn http://www.mamahood.org/?p=2591 Easter is one of those holidays that annoys me because its date changes. Thanksgiving is an easy one — fourth Thursday of November. But what about Easter? We’ve had years where it’s so early in March that it feels like winter instead of spring. Then we’ve had other years where it seems so late in April that it almost feels too hot and humid to dress up in my Sunday best for church and then go on an Easter egg hunt outdoors. I haven’t given Easter much thought yet this year, but then I got an email about happy Easter store.com. Looks like it’ll be time to pick up candy and a few goodies for the kids’ Easter baskets. I picked out really nice wicker baskets for them a few years ago (none of those cheap plastic things for my ankle biters!), and over the past several year we’ve amassed a collection of 200+ plastic eggs in all sorts of shapes and sizes and colors and designs, so the only thing to buy is candy, a stuffed bunny for each of my little darlings, and then little treats.

I think we’ll do an Easter egg hunt again this year. We did one last year and the year before, and the kids had a blast at both!

What will you be doing for Easter?

P.S. I asked Google — Easter is on April 24th, 2011.

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Here is Alyssa all dressed up, right down to her black sparkly tights:

DSC_3402 (by Jenn ♥)

And Ryan will have a candy corn costume that looks something like this:

We picked up both costumes from Target. :)

What are your kids going to be for Halloween?

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