This was the first Easter egg hunt for my daughter who is now two. She had lots of fun. I didn’t think she would figure it out but she did. She likes to put things in baskets and bags, so once we helped here with about two of them she was ready to go.

I placed one special egg with a little plastic rabbit (that hops). She looked at it and got excited, however, it was different than the other eggs so she didn’t want it in the basket. In fact, she changed her mind and decided that she didn’t like it.

She had so much fun. We told her “done… all finished”, but she looked really hard with a serious face just in case there was more. We had to sneak a few out of her basket and through them around the lawn when she wasn’t looking. She just didn’t want to stop.

In my family we ate the chocolate eggs and bunnies but didn’t have Easter egg hunts or celebrate Easter bunnies. I suppose I could never quite figure out how the Jesus dieing turned into a fuzzy bunny and chocolate.

Last night laying in bed thinking about it I think I figured it out. Jesus died on Friday, there were three days before he rose again until on Monday. I figured this, the women who knew Jesus where dealing with their grieving by eating chocolate. Them men had to get there minds off it by doing something crazy like inventing a Easter clown and dressed up a bunny.

That may not be the case but I am glad Jesus rose again and put things back in order. What would have been next? A fat hairy old clown in a red and white suit sliding down chimneys, taking peoples milk and cookies and leaving toys in its place? Maybe riding reindeer?

How do you get a Easter bunny and chocolate eggs out of someone being gruesomely crucified? However people twist and change these stories I don’t what to know. For now I will put up with it and have some fun it but I will never for get the real reason why we have some of the best holidays of the year.

I decided to try a egg hunt mostly for my wife’s sake. She grew up with Easter egg hunts. The best part of it was watching our daughter look around for them. If you went back just a couple of months she probably would have and no clue what to do. She would have been given one egg and she would have sat there playing with it and inspecting it. Now she was having fun looking for them and putting them in the basket.

I think it is a great way for her do something outside. If a bunny can manage to lay egg, a chocolate egg, who says it has to happen only once in April. I’m going to do my part in creating ridiculously crazy holidays and add to the story. My Easter bunny is on a monthly egg laying cycle. Why? I like chocolate.

Happy Easter!