Candy Residue Possibly Due to Bunny

The Easter Bunny presents a bit of a moral dilemma.

Last year at Easter, I noted my discomfort at telling Scott that a magical bunny was coming into our house with candy. This year, we made few minor changes to our approach to the holiday:



1. When discussing the Easter Bunny, R phrased it as follows, "Some people say that the Easter Bunny comes in at night and hides candy in the house." I thought this was a better approach than the outright lie, although the difference will be lost on Scott, I'm sure.



2. We recorded a made-for-TV animated special with an Easter message, told through a young boy and his dog. It was made in the 1970s and the soundtrack was quite a compilation of inexpensively-produced funk music. Scott thought it was just OK.

3. We did a Twelve-Days-of-Easter-ish advent calendar, where each day Scott got to open one of a dozen plastic eggs with a note and little items to represent events in the chronology of the Easter story. The last egg was empty, to symbolize the empty tomb.

4. As is the tradition, we decorated eggs this year, but this time we bought the NASCAR-themed decorating set. I believe that was Scott's personal choice, and does not do much to emphasize the true meaning of Easter (unless, of course, there is a tenuous connection somewhere between the true meaning of Easter and stock car racing).






It was fun to see Katie enter the Easter scene this year, clutching her little basket and toddling around after the big plastic eggs that Scott would point out for her -- he got the little candies and she got the 12 large plastic eggs. It was funny that she didn't recognize the candies inside the eggs for what they were, and was more than pleased to simply play with the plastic cases they came in.





Once again, the highlight of our Easter celebration was the fantastic musical program at church that R organized. This year she conducted all the congregational hymns (with piano & organ accompaniment) and the choir number (in which I participated). She spends most of her free time organizing the music for church, and the effort makes for wonderful results.



Easter this year was one of the few sunny days we have had, and it was wonderful to enjoy the evening together with R's parents out on the back patio of their home. The alleged bunny's visit was only part of a wonderful day for our family, filled with meaning. As they say in Russia:

Иисус воскрес!
Bоистину воскрес!