Happy Friday!!! I just realized today that Easter is 3 weeks away...WHAT?! Insanity. It must be our lack of church attending that has caused this to slip my mind thus-far (*ahem...guilt...*). Holidays with kids is SO MUCH FUN! Christmas was so much fun even though M.D. was only 2 months old and had NO idea what was going on. That's not really the point. The point was it was fun for ME! I got to dress him up in multiple Christmas-themed outfits, buy him a little stocking with his inital on it, purchase LOTS of toys (but not have to wrap them...), sing him Christmas Carols. It was awesome. He had no idea.
Well, now Easter is rolling around so I'm starting to think I need to plan a few things for this to make his (MY) experience of his 1st Easter stellar. Here lies my problem. I'm starting to get a little bit more practical. It's depressing. I am realizing that spending $20 on a "My First Easter" onesie that he will wear for about 3 hours before drooling ALL OVER IT is a huge waste of money. It wasn't at Christmas. He had 4 Christmas outfits. I'm a nutcase.
So now the guilt sets in. What if I don't buy him a "My First Easter" onesie to wear? Will he notice? Hell no. But I will. And apparently his first holidays are all about me. The worst guilt came in when I was trying to decide the things I needed to purchase for Easter that were necessities. The things you have to do, even though they won't get it, because you'll get a picture and never have to tell them, We didn't do anything for your first Easter because you wouldn't remember anyways so Mommy & Daddy didn't want to waste our money. HA!
Here's what I've got figured out so far:
1) Easter Basket. This is a practical purchase because, if I get a good one, he could potentially use this one forever. The ones that my siblings and I use at my mother's house are the same ones we've used forever. I'm a big fan of these liners from Pottery Barn Kids.
2) Easter Outfit. We are going to attempt church again for Easter. Dear God...we've turned into Christmas/Easter Christians. Whoops! I purchased him this dress shirt and these jeans (yes, we probably should do dress pants but I don't think the priest will kick out our 6 month old for not having dress pants.
3) Easter Basket Fillings. I need SOMETHING to put in the Easter basket so it doesn't just sit there empty. I'm trying to be creative & practical without being boring. My first idea was to order a few more gPants. We need them anyways, and I can get them in cute colors. I'm loving this blue color! I thought we could toss in an Easter board book, maybe a bunny or chick rattle or teether and that should suit just fine. If I think of anything else we NEED for him before then I'll probably just throw that in too to fill 'er up.
4) Easter Eggs. We will be spending Easter with my side of the family this year which always means an Easter egg hunt. Some families hunt for their baskets, but we always hunted for our eggs. We live in MN so obviously these hunts took place INDOORS, but we would all get different colored eggs and we had to go hunting for them where the Easter bunny hid them.
I'm not stupid. I realize M.D. is NOT going to be running around the house "hunting" for his eggs. However, he has two cousins who are going to be hunting for their eggs. The eldest cousin, G.R., is of the age where he understands that the Easter bunny brought the eggs and he would NOT understand why the Easter bunny would skip M.D. I don't want G.R. to start thinking that the Easter bunny is some bitchy mean girl who only delivers eggs to some kids and not others...so we've gotta hide eggs for M.D. But what to put in them? He eats rice cereal & sweet potatoes...yeah those aren't going in there. But what else is small enough to fit in a little plastic egg that would actually be of use to M.D.?
This is where the "bad mom" heading comes into play.
Do you wanna know my brilliant idea for what we need to put in M.D.'s eggs?
Socks.
I know...I'm awful. But they'd fit in an egg...he always needs more socks...and they're relatively inexpensive.
G.R. is going to think the Easter bunny HATES his cousin.
Anybody else have any ideas?
Hope everybody has a great weekend!
Well, now Easter is rolling around so I'm starting to think I need to plan a few things for this to make his (MY) experience of his 1st Easter stellar. Here lies my problem. I'm starting to get a little bit more practical. It's depressing. I am realizing that spending $20 on a "My First Easter" onesie that he will wear for about 3 hours before drooling ALL OVER IT is a huge waste of money. It wasn't at Christmas. He had 4 Christmas outfits. I'm a nutcase.
So now the guilt sets in. What if I don't buy him a "My First Easter" onesie to wear? Will he notice? Hell no. But I will. And apparently his first holidays are all about me. The worst guilt came in when I was trying to decide the things I needed to purchase for Easter that were necessities. The things you have to do, even though they won't get it, because you'll get a picture and never have to tell them, We didn't do anything for your first Easter because you wouldn't remember anyways so Mommy & Daddy didn't want to waste our money. HA!
Here's what I've got figured out so far:
1) Easter Basket. This is a practical purchase because, if I get a good one, he could potentially use this one forever. The ones that my siblings and I use at my mother's house are the same ones we've used forever. I'm a big fan of these liners from Pottery Barn Kids.
2) Easter Outfit. We are going to attempt church again for Easter. Dear God...we've turned into Christmas/Easter Christians. Whoops! I purchased him this dress shirt and these jeans (yes, we probably should do dress pants but I don't think the priest will kick out our 6 month old for not having dress pants.
3) Easter Basket Fillings. I need SOMETHING to put in the Easter basket so it doesn't just sit there empty. I'm trying to be creative & practical without being boring. My first idea was to order a few more gPants. We need them anyways, and I can get them in cute colors. I'm loving this blue color! I thought we could toss in an Easter board book, maybe a bunny or chick rattle or teether and that should suit just fine. If I think of anything else we NEED for him before then I'll probably just throw that in too to fill 'er up.
4) Easter Eggs. We will be spending Easter with my side of the family this year which always means an Easter egg hunt. Some families hunt for their baskets, but we always hunted for our eggs. We live in MN so obviously these hunts took place INDOORS, but we would all get different colored eggs and we had to go hunting for them where the Easter bunny hid them.
I'm not stupid. I realize M.D. is NOT going to be running around the house "hunting" for his eggs. However, he has two cousins who are going to be hunting for their eggs. The eldest cousin, G.R., is of the age where he understands that the Easter bunny brought the eggs and he would NOT understand why the Easter bunny would skip M.D. I don't want G.R. to start thinking that the Easter bunny is some bitchy mean girl who only delivers eggs to some kids and not others...so we've gotta hide eggs for M.D. But what to put in them? He eats rice cereal & sweet potatoes...yeah those aren't going in there. But what else is small enough to fit in a little plastic egg that would actually be of use to M.D.?
This is where the "bad mom" heading comes into play.
Do you wanna know my brilliant idea for what we need to put in M.D.'s eggs?
Socks.
I know...I'm awful. But they'd fit in an egg...he always needs more socks...and they're relatively inexpensive.
G.R. is going to think the Easter bunny HATES his cousin.
Anybody else have any ideas?
Hope everybody has a great weekend!