Easter Baskets Never Stand A Chance

Growing up, I loved Easter. I mean, how could you not love searching your house for hours looking for chocolate so you can spend the remainder of that day eating that chocolate. And to that I would just like to say that whoever came up with that idea is a pure genius. Genius! I'm not really sure why my parents stopped doing it, but I'm thinking I might have to have a little talk with Todd to see if we can implement this tradition at our house...say...every Saturday. Now who's the genius?

Over the past few years I've created a little tradition of my own for my niece and nephew by putting together Easter baskets for them. It's a great way to get a little creative without spending a ton of money, and it's something that they always seem to love.

A couple of weekends ago I slowly started picking up some chocolate that I could fill the baskets with. Here's my tip to you, don't do that unless you want to end up eating it all on a Saturday night because it's just staring at you in the face and screaming EAT ME! Once again, my rubber arm was twisted.

So off I went again last weekend to pick up everything I needed. The two baskets and all of the chocolate were purchased from Wal-Mart, the Easter stickers were found at Target, and the bunny hair elastics and the chickadee earrings were from Claire's. I'm so glad I stopped into Claire's because I didn't realize what great gift ideas they have for little girls. My niece adores those kinds of things.

I was much, much smarter this time around, though. As soon as those goodies were brought into my house, they were placed in their baskets and then delivered immediately. I have to be in a bathing suit very soon, and there's something about another round of binge chocolate eating that would make that next to impossible.

Another thing that's a part of our tradition is me spending way too much time trying to make these baskets look as cute as possible and the kiddies spending as little amount of time trying to tear them apart. Those baskets never stand a chance (kind of like chocolate just sitting in my house), but I'll take that as a very, very good sign!