Not sure when the shift took place, but if you are on the train, good luck getting off the train. Look I did it too, not to the same degree as some, and not for the same reasons, but I did it. When my girls were little I bought chocolate, usually a dress, and spring toys like bubbles, skipping rope or chalk. After my son was born and two of my kids became diabetic, we shifted to an egg hunt, usually shoes or a jacket for the new season, outside toys, maybe a Disney movie and a video game. After all it couldn’t be just junk food. To be fair I wasn’t a mom that bought stuff for my kids every time I went to the store.
On a recent trip to Costco, the cart loads I observed, were atrocious. I was hoping the amount of chocolate in the cart was not for just one child! I don’t know, it just seems commercialism is rampant and people are becoming materialistic. Everyone has their own thing, and I know that feeling of having nothing for so long, that getting and giving feels good! For me chocolate in the house is a lost cause. It is an uncontrolled addiction, I already purchased the smallest solid milk chocolate bunny the last time I grocery shopped and devoured it on the way home! I can’t have it in the house, I totally forgot about jellybeans until today… love them too! The old kind, where red and white ones are sweet, and the green ones are mint. Mmmm, serious addiction, sorry kids to let you find out this way but I stole Halloween treats and broke pieces off the backs of your bunnies when you were at school…
Good these things have been replaced with home cooked Easter dinner and everyone is grown. My son did ask for a small white bunny, I said no, they are hard to find and it may not make it to the house if I did. The Big E bunny will bring a small package of eggs for a hunt as per requested, that is all! Those eggs are secured although I did open a bag of coloured marshmallows.. they are almost gone.
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