After Easter Egg Hunt

The things we do for our kids...

This year we hadn't planned on doing any kind of Easter egg hunt. Normally we are traveling somewhere over Easter either to see family or do something fun. Last year we were at the Easter Egg Roll that happens on the White House Lawn. Well, this year we were home for Easter and on Sunday Camden asked if we were having an Easter egg hunt. I kind of brushed him off and said no. But the next day it hit me that he has always participated in some kind of Easter Egg hunt. It's just always been somewhere else. I was feeling a bit like a worthless Mom at that point but still not planning to do anything about it. But then on Tuesday after he got home from school he said that we should check our backyard because maybe the Easter bunny came while we weren't here. And Alexis (from his class) said that the Easter bunny left Easter eggs in her backyard. Yikes! What is a Mom to do? I can't let him go in the backyard and find ZERO eggs. So I deflected and distracted. I told him that it was getting late and that we needed to have dinner and do homework and that after school tomorrow we could check and see if the Easter bunny had come to our house. Luckily he went for it. So guess what I was feverishly doing the next afternoon before he got home from school? Yep, filling Easter eggs with all sorts of things and hiding them all over the backyard. So on Wednesday after Easter we had an Easter egg hunt. Camden was so happy and wondered out loud how long the eggs had been out in our back yard (twenty minutes to be exact), how the Easter bunny knew he loved things like basketball and smarties and how he knew that he had lost his cat jibbitz for his crocks (a new one was is one of the eggs). I could not believe it...my boy still believed in the Easter Bunny. In fact, I didn't realize that he ever thought the Easter bunny was real. What an eye opener! Well, guess what will always be included in our Easter festivities? :)

Just a few pics from our after Easter egg hunt: