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I'm curious to know if you were ever told, or were you ever curious about where the easter bunny lived? We all know the santa story by heart. When I was a kid, I never was told, and don't remember ever even being curious about the candy carrying rabbit's place of permanent residence.
Then 17 years ago, at the breakfast table, before I had my first caffeinated beverage of the day our then three year old son Michael asked my husband and I "well, where does that easter bunny live?" Jim said "well, son, that's an interesting question." After that answer, he's lucky not to be my late spouse. I sat there thinking "sweet merciful lord guide my tongue." Obviously "huh?" and "how should I know" were not going to cut this particular mustard. So my mouth opened and i said "he lives in delaware." Michael said "what's a delaware?" I said "it's wa-a-a-a-a-ay across the big chessapeak bay and is called the garden patch of the US. All kinds of fruits and veggies are grown there. So that is an ideal place for the bunny to live." Of course the next question was "how does he get here?" "well," I said, "on the night before easter at midnight, they close down the bay bridge (he knew about that from going to the beach) and the state troopers escort him across. now, i believe you have some clothes to be put on before we go to day care."
So does anyone else have any interesting stories or traditions? Thanks for sharing these.
I don't remember ever having any curiosity about where the Easter bunny or tooth fairy came from. Isnt that weird? I mean like you said, we all got the story of Santa living at the North Pole, but I don't remember ever wondering or hearing any of my friends wonder about the Easter Bunny.
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libra lady, funny you should mention the tooth fairy. i never had any curiosity about him/her. Don't know why.
my day care provider Melissa told her kids, and by osmosis mine, that every time a child lost a baby tooth that a new fairy was created. they lived in a big castle above the clouds. The fairy came and snuck the dentitia out from under the pillow and left the payment because the retrieved tooth was carved in to furniture for his/her new room. Wish i'd heard that one as a kid and am so glad mine did. I love the idea of some little pixie in a blue tutu carving my molars in to china hutches or whatever.
Holly, when I was at MSB, I wrote the Youngsters' section for the Oriole, our school newspaper. Someone challenged me to tie Easter into the Energy Crisis of 1973 or 74. Can't remember exactly when. I wrote this story in the tradition of the Kipling "Just so" stories about how the Easter Bunny delivered baskets in an airplane until someone told him he couldn't get fuel for the plane. He got his ears caught in a taffey-pulling machine in his candy factory. Well, his ears got stretched to the point where he could flap them, and fly around delivering goodies.
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lou what a cool story. Kind of like a dumbo hopping bunny. i love it.
I never believed in Santa, the easter bunny, or the tooth fairy. I heard about these characters in school, but my parents never said anything to me about them when I was little, so I just thought they were fake-believe beings just like unicorns and stuff.
I don't understand why parents lie to their children. None of these stories make sense. How do you have a bunny, and then eggs? That's Stupid. Why isn't Santa Claus ever charged with breaking-in-entering? And what if a house doesn't have a chimney, how will he get in then? How does the tooth fairy acquire money, does it have a job? And how do these characters obtain everyone's address? You can never make any of this shit make sense completely.
I heard once that the easter bunny lived in the garden of Eden. God gave him tuns of eggs to give to his children all over the world as a gift for Jesus's birthday. The egg repecented a beginning of life. The money given resimbled welth and fortune. And the candy was to sweeten the hearts of mankind. Thats why children are sweet and adults are bitter, because the kids are loaded with sweet sugar. The easter bunny was more than one carictor. They were many of them. And the tooth farries were some of the angels who came to take our teeth to the lord himself to use as jewlory, and ordaments.
I heard all this from a friend.
oh boy!!!! now i'm on a tare. be warned. be afraid be very very afraid!!!
Telling children about the easter bunny, santa, or whatever, is not lying. santa and to the lesser extent the rabbit are introduced in to children's lives to teach generosity and kindness. in my house, it was a way to tangibly show God's love. In order to survive, kids are born with the belief that they are the center of the universe. since they haveen't been around that long and their world is pretty tiny, they think that they make the sun come up. that's an exageration but i'm sure you know what i mean. In our home more emphasis has always been on the fact that gifts are given then on the fact that ssanta gave them. also, in order to get the loot our kids had to put out, on their own, cookies and juice for the red guy, and carrots and lettuce for the brown long eared one. finally, they had to write with help when very young and on their own later a note thanking him for the stuff they got.
Oh yes I still believe in both. so boo ya!!!!!! These characters are the manifestation of the generous gift giving fun loving spirit we all should have inside us. When my kids found out about it that's what i told them. These guys are tangible expressions of intangible hard to grasp concepts.
Having a mythic being around who gives us stuff also teaches us that the world is a magical and fun place. Fun you know that stuff we aren't supposed to do? Seems to me that in this new era that's a dirty word but there you go.
Digressive Distortion, I think you should apply for the role of grinch. You'd be perfect for it.
Yeah I agree. LOL Yeah its just for kids to have fun. It gives them something to look forward to. It makes life a bit magical and I'm all for that.?
I was a bit disappointed the year I found out there was no Santa, but I got over it. I didn't accuse my mom of lying to me and never regretted the years I believed.
SingerOfSongs, you might be right. lol
I'm all for having fun, but everyone has their own beliefs and so on. And I don't think fun is a dirty word these days. I think that many people have way too much fun nowadays, and don't know when to stop. Too, a child can be just as bitter as an adult if they feel so, and an adult can be just as sweet as a child. But, I don't think all children are sweet. Being sweet or bitter are personality traits.
My apologies for being a killjoy, I'm just an extreme realist. I've quite an imagination and I'm all for fantasy writing, but I don't believe in all the characters in my stories, or the stories parents make up to tell their children.
And God making jewelry from our teeth? Writing letters to animals that can't read? Wow. Parents and children.
Lol!! That's great! I was always told. . . The ovbious answer, Easter Island!! Lol.
That's an interesting thought, in reference to the original post. As a kid, there were songs about the Easter bunny hopping around making his deliveries, but there was no backstory as to where he lived and what he did on his days off and such. Closest thing to that might have been a couple of Easter-oriented animated specials by Rankin-Bass.