Pardon the cut and paste above...the kids set out their baskets the night before Easter, and the Bunny comes during the night and fills them (the baskets, not the kids) with candy. As the kids get older, (for instance my 26-year-old daughter), they expect little gifts. ;-) Oops...just remembered, I haven't gotten my glass "turkeys" out of storage to fill with jelly beans yet. I also need to get all the baskets and grass and plastic eggs out of storage for my granddaughter. The problem with buying candy too early is that I eat it all and have to buy more.

Also, this is a heavily Catholic community, and everyone has a big Easter dinner. My grown children expect me to cook (horrors!) so I need to throw something together for next Sunday. Traditional foods are ham, deviled eggs, maybe peas...and of course candy! One of my favorites is to make an angel food cake with white icing and decorate it with grass and eggs. (the grass is coconut and green food coloring and the eggs are jelly beans.)