Easter is not one of my favorite holidays. So maybe that is one of the main reasons I had forgot all about it up until parents visiting day at my son’s preschool when another Mom mentioned it. Isn’t it odd that a a green beer drunkfest was last week and now we are celebrating a holy holiday?

I thought Easter was always in April. I guess I was wrong. Not that I wasn’t giving any signs. Churches have been posting mass times and egg hunts. Stores always put that garb out months before it is upon us so I just breezed past all the plastic eggs and various basket treats. I felt like I was pretty darn prepared. I mean we had baskets from last year and the tacky plastic eggs to boot. But no. You get sucked into all the new crap that easter has to offer. Like mini cars in eggs and spin light wands. When I was a kid my parents bought those pre-packed easter baskets wrapped in that horrible green cellophane. At the time I thought it was the bee’s knee’s. Now baskets like that are themed with one cheese cartoon character after the next. Our kids are a huge market, and all these company’s know it. So in the face it goes. I wish things would stop being so commercial and get back to the basics. Bubbles and jump rope. That is what will save the world!