Alternate use for an Easter Basket
As I have mentioned in a previous article (Happy Easter, It’s Gonna Cost You!), we don’t have that many more Easter Bunny visits left. This sad realization has me reminiscing about all of the Easters we have celebrated as a family over the years.
I have decided that my favorite one was when my little girl was one and a half years old. It was a typical sunny eighty-five-degree spring day in Texas. My daughter Dahlia and I were at her first Easter egg hunt while her brother was at school. For the occasion, I had bought her a cute little pink and purple Easter egg basket that was small enough for her to carry.
As soon as we heard “Ready, set, go!” I scooped up a pink egg so she would get the idea.
She nodded her head, said, “Hbtllxzp,” and toddled off towards some wildflowers. She picked a few, and threw them in the basket.
“Ooo, very pretty!” I said, “But those aren’t eggs. See look, here’s another one,” I demonstrated, picking up a yellow one and putting it in her basket.
“Rbgglstg,” she commented, and headed in the direction of a green egg, as if she understood.
But no, she walked right past the egg, bent down and picked up a rock, and put it in her basket.
And so it went. I kept picking up Easter eggs, while she continued to pick up a variety of other interesting things, such as a foil gum wrapper, a plastic bottle cap, dandelions, a few more rocks and a Popsicle stick.
I threw a few more eggs in her basket and decided to give up. I told her it was time to go home.
Ewwww!
At home, she sat on the carpet playing with all of the little bits of rubbish that she had collected. I was really looking forward to showing her the candies inside of the plastic eggs, so she would finally “get it”.
It was a good thing she was not particularly paying attention to me when I opened that first egg. You see, putting chocolates inside of plastic eggs and then leaving them out in the hot sun for a while is really not a very good idea!
After I had taken care of the molten chocolate problem, she did actually find a use for the plastic eggs. She had fun putting her little “treasures” inside the eggs, and then taking them out again.
I wonder if she knew what she was doing after all….
Chanelling her inner Easter Bunny
