A Dad’s Role at Easter:
-Participate in Easter Egg Hunt activities
-Shower for dinner
-Get dressed
-Nap?
-Show up for dinner
That is all.
Mom’s Role at Easter:
-Weeks before Easter co-ordinate with sister, Mother, Mother In Law, Sister In Law, possibly cousins. Find dates that will work for a minimum of two Easter celebrations. Dates must not conflict with extra curricular activities of the six cousins or with any other family member schedules.
-Minimum of two weeks out start picking up “little things” for Easter from treats, to socks, to menu necessities.
-Create menu plan for meal you are hosting or dishes you are taking to multiple Easter feasts.
-Take children shopping for appropriate Easter outfits.
-Forgot to buy shoes. Go shopping again. Teen will be all kinds of thrilled about this. Sigh.
-Week of Easter brave WalMart along with thousands of other last minute Mom’s to stock up on Easter Egg Hunt supplies and baskets. Suffer sticker shock at price of baskets stuffed with sad looking floppy eared bunnies and eggs that should be embarrassed to try and pass themselves off as chocolate.
-Create your own beautiful but pricy basket of joy and then give that damn bunny all the credit for delivering the perfect Easter morning.
Easter dinner is two hours away. Force the kids into the shower and re-live the same argument that drying one’s hair after the shower is truly part of the “having a shower experience”. (every single time!)
-Present Easter outfit number one for dinner number one.
-Go to get dressed yourself. Realize you forgot yourself in the prepatory Easter Clothes shop. Try on six pairs of pants before you find one pair that is acceptable. Destroy closet in the process….another mess for later.
Check on girls. They have both altered their outfits to make them more “comfortable”. Decide to Let. It. Go.
Have they brushed their teeth? No.
Have they brushed their hair? Kinda, but it’s still wet.
Are they wearing clean socks, any socks? No! Of course not, they can’t find socks. Ever.
Have an internal scream and go in search of back up. Where is Hubby?
Napping.
Deep breath.
Count my blessings.
Next year, I will play the role of Daddy.
*Found this one in the archives and felt it deserved a repeat, you know, because some things never change!
Hope you all had a wonderful and blessed Easter.
Awe,it seems sometimes we need to take the nap and send hubby shopping with the kids…..what a disaster that would be
There is definitely a lot of truth in this, at least for most people. I remember well how nerve wracking it was to get everything done on time, shopping for presents, cleaning, cooking, I was always shattered by the time the event was over. Men often think they’ve done their share if they BBQ the meat, no thought to what else has to be prepared for a decent meal.
Ha! Repeat for every holiday all year.
This applies to every celebration in my home, i.e. Birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. I husband leisurely has a shower while I’m running around killing myself preparing for the events. Drives me NUTS!
LOL. And that’s the honest truth 😉 I think it’s easier to be the kid 😛 all you have to do is find the eggs/chocolate and eat it
lol that’s so true!
The Dad here did more than I did.
So true!!
I had a few moments while I was hiding the eggs Saturday night and he was calmly watching football that I wanted to ping the eggs off his head!!!
I never dry my hair! 🙂
LOL … It’s so true , cracks me up hahahaha
Too funny and too true. Well, except for the menu planning/cooking…at least in this house.
That is definitely how Easter has always happened at our house over the years! My husband seems to think that making the money to pay the bills is all that is expected of him.