I’m lame. Easter this year? I kinda just let it slip.

Because the day before Easter? The kids were being ridiculous. I tried to have an egg hunt in the house. Mostly for Deacon. The older kids and their friends hid the eggs. And then fought over them as they found one another’s eggs. There was a lot of yelling. And pouting. And kicking. And stomping.

Over plastic eggs that each contained 4 jelly beans. I clawed at my own face.

I told Jachin that his Easter was cancelled. About 7 times. Zoe whined, and I put her on notice. She was this close to having Easter cancelled as well.

Deacon… well, he was a sweetie, but I couldn’t find his Easter basket to save my life. Cuz my basement? Have you seen it? So Deacon’s Easter was kind of cancelled because his mom is just lame. And disorganized. And, oy, the basement.

But Deacon’s sort of a baby, so he doesn’t know about Easter and the risen Lord and the subsequent expectation of candy.

But the other two? They know about Easter. They know to flip out when they wake up on Easter morning and find their Easter baskets sitting there on the kitchen table… EMPTY.

yes-huh.

And Zoe came in to my room and woke me up and said, “There’s no candy in our baskets.”

And I rolled over and wiped the drool from my mouth and told her that I’d fill their baskets when I got up. Which was about an hour and half later. Deacon, well, since I couldn’t find his basket, he just carried around a box with a chocolate bunny inside. I didn’t actually let him eat it. Cuz he’s sort of a baby.

Zoe sat at the table writing a story later that day. It was titled “A Really, Really Bad Day — by Zoe Gale”. It wasn’t about her life, per se, but it was based on the life of an 8 year old girl who wakes up on Easter morning and finds her Easter basket EMPTY! And then finds that the pantry is out of her FAVORITE CEREAL! And then her mom DOESN’T EVEN CARE! And then her big brother TEASES HER! And her baby brother MESSES UP HER DS!

It was picked up by Scholastic Press in a six-figure deal, due out this fall.

Happy Belated Easter, friends.

2 Comments »

1. my mom is the official easter bunny. only, it was 9 days before easter that she did her hunt. then, on what the kids call happy saturday (the day after good friday), we had a neighborhood hunt. sufficient easter candy was had by all. so i didn’t do anything. they kept hinting, F saying things like, “isn’t today easter???” um, yeah kid, but you’ve kinda gotten enough stuff. but i did make a kick ass dinner and we did dye eggs until 11 pm that night. ;-D

   Comment by jenica — April 6, 2010 @ 1:53 am

2. Byron can relate to Jachin and Zoe, except he still believes in the Easter Bunny. You have no idea how annoying that is. Anyway he told us that the easter bunny sucked this year because he apparently just went around the house and collected all the leftover birthday candy and put that in his basket and then had the gall to only hide 6 of his 18 eggs and eat 2 of them. He was very dissapointed in the easter bunny, but still he wont let the fantasy die. So it looks like the sucky easter bunny will be back next year. Oh joy

   Comment by Diana — April 6, 2010 @ 5:30 am

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