I Killed The Easter Bunny

I love all of the fun things that go with having kids. Getting to have Santa Claus visit my house and the Tooth Fairy sneaking into my kids rooms.

The Easter Bunny has not ever been my favorite though. It probably has to do with the live Easter bunnies that my parents gave my brother and I when I was about 4 years old. I went to check on them later that day and thought that my bunny was so much nicer than my brother's. His kept hopping all around and wouldn't let me pet it. Not like my nice bunny. WAIT! The bunny fell over stiff as a board when I pushed on him. Yes, he was deader than a doornail. I was thoroughly traumatized.

With my boys now, we put out baskets the night before Easter and each boy gets a giant chocolate bunny, candy and usually a movie (this years hit was Itune $$).

I am very good at being sneaky. Really. My sneakiness is legendary. This year I dropped the ball.

I went by the drug store to pick up something for a sick friend and while I was there did my Easter shopping. I put the bags in my backseat and went by the sick friend's house first. I visited for a bit and then headed home. Totally forgetting the other bags in the car.

I picked up the youngest (8) that afternoon from school and told him to get all his junk out of the backseat when we got home. Wherever he goes trash develops, shoes multiply and toys appear. My car was looking like we lived in it.

We pulled in the driveway and I proceeded to get out, get the mail etc. I noticed that D never got out of the car. Pretty soon the back door opens and I see his feet sticking out. I asked him, "What are you doing in there??"

He answers back with a comment that made my heart stop in my chest and chills run down my spine, "I LOVE chocolate bunnies!"

Holy Shit! I'd left all the bags back there!!!

He didn't really ask so that makes me wonder how strong his belief still was, but he was smart enough to keep quiet about it.

But, yes, I do believed that for the second time in my life I killed the Easter Bunny.

Oh well, here we are after church on Easter Sunday. I didn't realize until after the picture was taken I should have switched the boys. I put dark blue in front of dark blue and light blue in front of light blue.

And, yes, I actually have another child who is 19 and was home from college last weekend. Sleeping.