What's In Our Easter Baskets

With Lent quickly drawing to a close, I've been working on "building Easter baskets" here. The biggest basket fillers for us are usually books, of course. I have lists and lists of books I want to give the boys each Easter, and every year I have to talk myself down to just a couple books per child. There are just too many intriguing book prospects...and the lists grow. I have come to the conclusion that we will be perpetually out of bookshelf space.

Aidan: (age 10-11)

• Usborne's Write and Draw Your Own Comics
• Usborne's The Story of Inventions
• Catholic By The Number Card Game 
• Large Tapestry Rosary Pouch with Traditional Catholic Art (Saint Michael)
• Ear buds 
• Chocolate bunny (Wal-Mart)
• Cadbury creme eggs (Wal-Mart)
• Bubble tape (Wal-Mart)
• Flying disc (Wal-Mart)
• Bubble stick (Wal-Mart)

Gavin: (age 9)

• Usborne's How Things Work
• Usborne's A Year In My Life Journal
• 24 Colored Gel Pens
• Catholic Saint Memory Card Game
• Sacred Heart with Immaculate Heart Tapestry Rosary Pouch
• Chocolate Bunny
• Cadbury creme eggs
• Bubble tape
• Bubble stick

Liam: (age 6)

• Usborne's Magic Jungle Painting Book
• Can You Find Saints?: Introducing Your Child to Holy Men and Women
• The King of the Golden City: Special Edition for Boys
• Bubble stick
• Flying disc
• Chocolate Bunny
• Bubble tape
• Cadbury creme eggs

Ian: (age 4)

• Usborne's Peek Inside Nighttime
• God Bless Our Easter
• Sequin pillow (Wal-Mart)
• Bubble stick
• Cadbury creme eggs
• Chocolate Bunny

Addie: (age 1)

• Usborne's B is for Bedtime

Obviously, not all our Easter baskets are equal for many different reasons...some already had flying discs, some cannot have bubble gum because they still eat it, some found Easter basket stuffers early so they won't be added to their basket. This is Addie's first Easter, so she will receive a whole new outfit. She also really doesn't care about the politics of Easter basket equality yet, a fact that I'm going to joyfully bask in this year. 

I'd love to hear what's in your Easter baskets! Do you have other Easter traditions you keep?

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