Easter Morning

This entry is mostly so I can remember today. It's long. Please feel free to skip the reading and just tell me your favourite Easter candy. I always loved getting a big solid chocolate bunny when I was a kid. You had to gnaw those things. Well, you could cut them up with a knife, but where was the fun in that?

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I've been up since 7 freaking o'clock. 7!! Gack! Even my daughter, who sleeps fairly late on Christmas was up bright and early this morning. DH and I managed to get them to play quietly for a little while, but we were still downstairs hunting eggs by 8:00.

This year, their egg with their name on it was waiting with their new sand pail and skipping rope on the coffee table. They were supposed to take their pails and use them to collect the eggs, but only DD did. DS left his on the coffee table and ran around grabbing one egg at a time. I put out all the Reese's peanut butter eggs *waves to HD* individually. They also got the big Wonka eggs with Sweet Tarts and Runts and foil-wrapped chocolate eggs. DS got a chocolate Dora, a 4-pack of small hollow chocolate teddy bears and some extra candy-filled egs. DD got Lindor eggs and Cadbury Mini-eggs.

The big deal for each of them was the present they didn't get for Christmas.

I had put DD's toy on her list for other people, but no-one chose that for her. She decided to buy one for herself using her Christmas and birthday money, but then realised that she would have to spend every last penny she had. She didn't want her piggy bank to be empty, so she decided that she could live without it. This was just last month. Anyway, Mom and Dad are softies, so hiding on top of the china cabinet was her Golden Retriever Fur Real Friend. She has spent the morning "training" it to sit and beg and howl and such. Actually, it's quite a good toy for the price.

DS has wanted a lightsabre ever since he saw Star Wars the second time. The first time, he didn't much care one way or the other, but then DD wanted to watch the movie again and DS got right into it. Anyway, I thought it was a singularly bad idea. Then he saw one in the toy store when we were there to get a present for his cousin and he really wanted it. He made all kinds of promises, but I stood firm. No lightsabre - at least not right now. Then DH said that if he abused the privilege, I (that's me getting to be the bad guy) could just take it away. So he got a lightsabre for Easter. 2, in fact. I bought the wrong one, you see. I had to send DH out to get the proper one with the light and sounds. *I* bought an official one, but it was red (for bad guys) and you were paying entirely for the name, so no fancy stuff. DH told me not to take the red one back, so now DS has 2. He's wearing the Darth Vader sword at his waist and carrying the other around, occasionally threatening bad guys and not once, as yet, bashing or poking any person, cat or item.

Weird juxtaposition: I had to take away the toothbrush he got at the dentist this week because he kept throwing it at me. But the lightsabre is OK. ??? Go figure.

They had so much fun. DD's little face was priceless when she looked up and saw the dog. I loved watching DS finding eggs. He was so excited to find them. DD kept asking me if she had all hers yet, because she wanted to be done so she could play with the dog.

It's only noon and I don't know what we're going to do with the rest of the day. It doesn't look too nice out. I had wanted to maybe go for a hike down on the boardwalk or maybe down to the lake to see if there are any baby ducks or geese yet. Well, better go make lunch.