Easter Baskets (sssshhhhhhh...don't tell Lillycat!)

**beeniesmom** · 03-24-2006, 09:37 PM

I loved getting Easter baskets as a child!
I think you should spoil Jonah!

**king2005** · 03-24-2006, 10:05 PM

My mom did it 2 yrs in a row. I was 14 & 15yrs old. I cheated. I took Max (RIP dog) & pointed to all sorts of areas of the house, telling him to search (I taught him so many usefull things hehe). I found sooo many. He even found some that were 6 feet up! I didn't even have to get them myself either.. He would grab the chocolate eggs & spit them on the floor for me. SO all I had to do was pick them up off the floor & every so often give him a carrot

I was sooo bad hahaha

**Cincy'sMom** · 03-24-2006, 10:12 PM

As my mom already said, we got Easter baskets for a long. I remember getting clothes, CD's and other cool things as we out grew the need for 8 tons of candy!
I know Ralph's family did the Easter basket thing too, as his mom still colors eggs and makes one for each of the dogs.

So yes, Jonah should have his! And if you just happen to have any extra Greater's choclate laying around, you have my address!!

**Glacier** · 03-24-2006, 10:13 PM

We didn't get baskets exactly, but we had candy hidden all over the house. Sometimes we found those marshmellow egg things months later! It was great fun. My Mom still sends me a chocolate bunny every year! Jonah should definately have some Easter goodies!

**luvofallhorses** · 03-24-2006, 10:24 PM

I love Easter baskets. my grandma would always make us older kids a basket full of candy. I think I will have to go get myself one.

Annette,

that sounds like a great idea to make up easter baskets for your pets!

I may do that.

**Roxyluvsme13** · 03-24-2006, 10:34 PM

I love Easter baskets!!

I think it's great that you give Jonah one, too

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**Uabassoon** · 03-24-2006, 10:37 PM

I've never heard of hiding the gifts before, that sounds like a really fun idea. There was one easter tradition in my family that I loved, but I've never heard of anyone else doing it (other than people that grew up where I did). You would save and wash out your egg shells, just leaving a small hole on the top to get the inside out. Then fill the eggshell with confetti and glue a piece of tissue paper on the top where the hole is. Then we would hide them in the yard. After they were all found we would chase each other and crack them on each others heads! There was nothing more fun then smashing a confetti filled egg on my sisters head.

**Tubby & Peanut's Mom** · 03-24-2006, 10:35 PM

We always got baskets too. My oldest brother had the biggest, mine was medium sized and my youngest brother got the smallest - no wonder he has a complex these days.

I can remember finding mine in the oven one year. And if I remember right, if we found someone else's basket, we snatched a piece of candy but didn't tell them where the basket was.

As we got into our teens and Easter baskets became oh so uncool, my mom started putting just one basket in the middle of the dining room table - filled with her and my dad's favorite candy (black jelly beans (mom) & those orange marshmallow peanut thingys and candy corn (dad). Needless to say we kids thought that candy was G-R-O-S-S, so we didn't eat any of it - my mama was no dummy!

Peanut, CJ & Terry do not get baskets - I'm so boring these days.