YAY.....Two More Weeks Until Easter!!!

Easter is my favorite holiday, now don't get me wrong....I love me some Christmas, I mean I haven't even taken down my Christmas tree yet. I know you probably think I am kidding, or just plain lazy! The fact of the matter is.....well I am lazy, and I have a neurotic three year old whom protests anytime someone mentions the Christmas tree and its need to be put away until next Christmas. Have you ever picked a fight with a three year old? I know I am the parent and I should put my foot down (or up....his butt). Braxton truly loves the tree, he turns the lights on all the time, lays under it, moves ornaments around, talks about it ALOT, at night when driving in a car and you see the street lights of town, especially in the horizon, he yells "OH MY DOD!!! LOOK!!! IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!"

It truly breaks his heart, and he doesn't understand that it can be disassembled and put into a box and stored in the closet. His reply "It won't fit, it's too big", so how do I break his heart? It's not like we have company over alot, or company who doesn't know where Braxton stands on the issue. Let's face it, he is so darn cute when he argues with you, you can't help but giggle.

So Neena brought over some plastic Easter eggs, we have talked about taking down the Christmas ornaments, and replacing them with the eggs. Braxton is still standing his ground on the whole Christmas issue, but he is suppose to go to his Nana's so maybe I can get that knocked out while he is gone for a night or two. For some reason the thought of "paintin eggs" thrills the socks right off of him. When he returns we are going to do a practice run of decorating Easter eggs. Now I am all about plastic eggs, but a few years ago, I only decorated about a dozen of real eggs, and everyone pretty much brought plastic eggs to the egg hunt, well Hoss and Brooklyn were very disappointed, they only found plastic, they wanted the real eggs!
Which plastic eggs full of chocolate and money verses a hard boiled egg....to me it's no contest...I'll take the chocolate and money anyday.....but not those two!

Hoss' great grandmother has a rule at her house, even though she thought I was a spawn of satan, that I am going to make my children do as well. Easter was about the kids and hunting eggs, if you came to her house Easter Sunday and you weren't married or had any children, then you had to hunt eggs, Bobby was 26 years old, along with his best friend Dustin who was 27 years old at the time, were out in the yard hunting Easter eggs. Which her eggs were more loose change then chocolate, due to the fact the grandkids were all grown and preferred the change over the candy. So she saved her loose change all year long, just to put in the eggs at Easter. Dustin would tell about how he would come home on the weekends from college and go to Nanny's on Easter because he would need it for gas money to get back to school. They were never embarrassed by it. Actually if I remember right Bobby hunted eggs up until the year I was pregnant with Hoss.

So hopefully Easter will be so exciting for Braxton that we will be able to take down the Christmas decorations, but then again I am lazy....and it's only 8 more months until Christmas decorations need to go up........LOL