Do you give your grown children Easter baskets?
By dragon54u
@dragon54u (31633)
United States
March 23, 2009 4:16pm CST
I have always loved shopping for and putting together Easter baskets for my two boys. I loved hiding eggs and putting little toys and coins in plastic eggs and hiding those, too. After the divorce, they are in high school and I still made them baskets. When I moved back home and they stayed in Arizona, I still sent them Easter baskets!
This year I'm sending them the cost of the basket, though. It's already in the 80's there in Phoenix and candy would be a horrid mess by the time it got to them. No chocolate bunnies, just brown blobs! I'll miss making the baskets. 
Do you give your grown children baskets for Easter? What do you put in them? Do you mail them baskets if they don't live close to you?
Do you give your grown children baskets for Easter? What do you put in them? Do you mail them baskets if they don't live close to you?4 responses
@mentalward (14690)
• United States
24 Mar 09
I started doing what my mother did: making one large basket that we all could dip into as "needed". (Candy IS an important food group, you know. 
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We get together for dinner, at the very least (they come for the Heavenly Ham I buy, the spiral-cut honey ham), so I always have a large basket filled with goodies. It's the one time of the year when I'll indulge myself in more candy than I'd usually eat. (Oh, those Mary Sue Easter Eggs!!! I'm especially addicted to the chocolate covered vanilla butter cream eggs... YUMMMM!!)
Last year, my sons surprised ME with an Easter basket! I was so very pleasantly surprised! (This is mostly my oldest son's idea... he's such a sweetheart! He's single and unattached, too! Know of any nice gals looking for a really nice guy? I want grandchildren!!! LOL)
When my youngest son was traveling, I'd mail him an Easter card with some money in it, like $10.00. I'm sure appreciated the money more than the candy.
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We get together for dinner, at the very least (they come for the Heavenly Ham I buy, the spiral-cut honey ham), so I always have a large basket filled with goodies. It's the one time of the year when I'll indulge myself in more candy than I'd usually eat. (Oh, those Mary Sue Easter Eggs!!! I'm especially addicted to the chocolate covered vanilla butter cream eggs... YUMMMM!!)
Last year, my sons surprised ME with an Easter basket! I was so very pleasantly surprised! (This is mostly my oldest son's idea... he's such a sweetheart! He's single and unattached, too! Know of any nice gals looking for a really nice guy? I want grandchildren!!! LOL)
When my youngest son was traveling, I'd mail him an Easter card with some money in it, like $10.00. I'm sure appreciated the money more than the candy.@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
24 Mar 09
You have such wonderful sons! Mine are 20 and 21. The idea of a community basket is great, too!
@luvmysons (497)
• United States
23 Mar 09
I am 32 years old and my sister is 35. We are both married with children and my mom still has easter baskets for us. I think its adorable.. I guess no matter what we will always be her babies. because it has been done for me I will most likley not matter what age have easter baskets for my sons.
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
23 Mar 09
Yes, they'll always be my babies! Moms love doing stuff for their kids, always!
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
23 Mar 09
My kids are not grown yet, so I cannot speak as a parent of grown children. I can however speak as a grown child. I do not get Easter baskets from my parents. I don't remember how old I was when I stopped getting stuff for Easter, but it was not that old. 10 maybe. I think it is cool that you still do things like that for your sons.
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
23 Mar 09
It helps me deal with not having them around! I know they're all grown up and I could have stayed in that state but it was such an awful place and I just had to come home. I love sending them stuff!
@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
23 Mar 09
If it will make you feel any better, Santa Claus came to see me until I was 25 years old & had a child of my own!!! Mom wasn't into Easter baskets much. I used to work in the office of a delivery company & did the overflow work at night. Part of the packages were human hearts being sent to various hospital/universities for research. Occasionally they were going out for transplant. In order to keep them viable, they were stored in a styrofoam box surrounded by ice placed in zip lock bags to keep the water from leaking during transport. They just had to declare that it wasn't dry ice. You might want to consider that.
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
23 Mar 09
They'd probably appreciate the money more. My oldest is a healthy eater with little interest in sweets and the youngest should not eat so many sweets! It takes awhile for things to get to them--it's fast till it hits Arizona then it can take days to get from the main postal facility to their house.
