Every family is sure to have their own traditions when it comes to the Holidays, and ours is a plastic Christmas tree and an Easter egg hunt in the house.
"Happy easter sam! The pic is Dad laughing at the kids looking for eggs"
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--On Christmas morning, the three kids are not allowed to go downstairs and look in the stockings until all three kids are awake.
On Easter morning, the three kids are not allowed to go downstairs until the adults have placed the plastic eggs around the house (the kitchen is always excluded). I remember that before, we used to give Mika a few seconds head start because, well, I guess it was the fair thing to do. In Virginia, when she was still about 4 or 5, Haru would help her: "Mika, look! What's that?" Not me. Every man for himself. That's probably why I always got bachi and never got any of the good eggs... Haru always, ALWAYS got the good eggs.
The fun part is opening the eggs and seeing what's inside. This is when we trade (or not trade) our insides. Here's a rough timeline of what's been found in the eggs:
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2000-2004: Candy. Chocolate eggs. Twix. Crunch. Milky Way. Snickers. etc.
This was the era of sweets. It helped that Grandpa liked to eat lots of Crunch and Kit Kats.
2005-2006: Candy. Chocolate eggs. Money (coins mostly). Coupons (No washing dishes, make someone do X push-ups, X push-ups free pass, 15mins internets, give Dad a massage)
This was the era of coupons, doing push-ups as punishment, and having 10 Net-Zero hours of internet usage a month.
2007-2009: Money (which Haru always ends up ending up with). Coupons (No washing dishes, $x shopping spree, Xmins watching TV, choose blockbuster movie, DS game).
So as you can see, we hate washing dishes, and as the years went on the items in the eggs became much more interesting and targeted a specific age group (for example, some people weren't allowed to watch iCarly whenever they wanted).
Sometimes I feel that I look forward to Easter's coupons much more than Christmas's pack of socks and underwear and gift-wrapped library books.
Coupons not only benefit the kids. Coupons are most great for the parents. Parents can forget about Easter until an hour before the egg hunt, and it is cheap to do. Though the kids are excited about having lots of coupons, what usually happens is:
-The child puts it in a safe spot and saves it.
-The child forgets about the coupons.
-A year passes and they become 'expired'.
At least this is what happened to me almost every year since the beginning of coupons.
Sam!!! Why do I never learn? Every time I send you a picture, it somehow ends up in your blog or facebook. Anyway, this year's egg hunt had the same results: haru got all the good eggs and mika got the junkie ones. Haru didn't give Mika much of a chance during the hunt, but when it came down to trading the coupons, he gave most of his to Mika, so she wins in the end. Mom
ReplyDeleteSam, be glad you got coupons. When we were kids, your dad made the four younger siblings play "name that tune" and the winner didn't have to do his chores (usually washing dishes).
ReplyDeletehaha that picture of your father laughing is hilarious. He's having a lot of fun.
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