Son, Meet the Resurrection Rabbit
2 Years Ago This Weekend…
Here’s the deal.
You parent you’re kids.
I’ll parent mine.
We love the Easter Bunny in the Whittaker home.
And yes people, we love Jesus more.
Well he scares the hell out of Seanna, but think about it.
Not Jesus. The Bunny.
A 6′4″ 270 pound rabbit breaks into your house and drops off some presents?
She’s smarter than I was.
Anyways.
Do you do the Easter Bunny?
We learned about your Santa takes a few months back.
Now tell me about your bunny.
Just tell me you don’t call him the Resurrection Rabbit.
But I’m not sayin you can’t! 
Hippity Hoppity
Talk to me…
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RAIN IT DOWN
Yes, we do the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. We'll do the Tooth Fairy, too.
We do the tooth fairy.
No.
Your name sounds familiar.
Yes, we do…we just don't make an overly big deal out of them. But they're fun. Of course, when I was a kid, I was terrified of the Easter Bunny – they had this giant, probably 7 foot tall, bunny at the grocery store and it completely freaked me out.
HAHAHAHA
Nope!
We totally do the Easter Bunny…my wife is on the way out the door to get all the goods as I type this.
My 11 yr old from Rwanda, two days ago, asked why all "muzungus" (which in kinya-rwandan means white people) believe in a big bunny that brings eggs, because chicken have eggs not bunnies, I know Dad because I had chickens….then she says….by the way how does he (The Big Bunnny) get in the house.
HA!
The first time I saw a pig I was 3. I looked at my mom and said, "Look mommy, a bunny!" So maybe your kid's right about us "muzungus" not knowing our animals.
dude, we have so many wild-bunnies in yard here
Yes we here at the Walker home do the Easter Bunny. We have a 6' blow up bunny in the living room that the kids tackle everyday. Yes Easter is about Jesus and we try to teach our kids that but really weren't you into the Easter Bunny when you where a kid?
I did.
I was really into the CANDY. Not the bunny so much.
Hows Hawaii.
Cold and windy!
I LOVE the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus and Hallowe’en and the tooth fairy and birthdays for little lost Asain children who light sabre my knuckles, oh yes, I
Also believe in Yoda and Indiana Jones and magic and Disney World and most of all… I believe in Carlos! You rock!!!
And I love when you leave a comment on my blog while drinking wine with my wife.
We just got back from seeing the Easter Bunny! Well seeing my 6'4" brother dressed up in an Easter Bunny costume working Chick-fil-a family night. That counts right?
It's more fun for my 3-year old when she knows that it's Uncle Daniel underneath the big bunny head.
Nope. No bunny. No santa. And I take pride in knowing that my child will be "the kid who tells other kids that there's no santa."
Ha. That's mean.
HA.
I do the Easter Bunny, toothfairy, santa clause, etc etc. But I also teach the true meaning of the celebration:
JESUS!!!!
(Now if I could just get the kids dad to know the true meaning…)
i stil do the tooth fairy thing…it's hilarious…i forget to leave the money and have to give extra cash with interest the next night…
The Easter Bunny scared the hell out of me too, probably because I had no positive point of reference concerning rabbits. A friend's pet rabbit bit me when I was a kid so a giant one, with big buck teeth and pitch black eyes always seemed sinister. I may need therapy if/when I have kids and have to do the whole bunny thing.
Well, we don't have kids, but when I was a kid we did all the holidays and their respective characters.
But every Easter and Christmas my Dad would ALWAYS sit the whole family down and we'd read the Scripture that tells us why we celebrate. So we knew the Easter bunny wasn't real. It was just an excuse for us to have a TON of candy early in the morning.
we also did the scripture thing (which is a great way to remind us what it is all about) but somehow my parents managed to keep the Easter bunny et al fairly real to us
Great video man. Not sure yet about the bunny, but def Easter baskets.
i agree- yes to baskets, no to bunny
Yep, the bunny, santa, the tooth fairy, we do it all, but Jesus still trumps them all. Our thing is, when the kids ASK us if Santa, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy are real, we're going to tell them the truth. One of our friend's kids asked his parents and they said of course they're real… then when he found out the truth he doubted the existence of Jesus too and thought his parents must be lying about that as well. SO when they ask, we will tell. Until then we're having a blast with the bunny!
good call!
Actually just got an email from our pastor telling us that Easter eggs were not allowed in the church, but resurrection eggs were. Are they not the same eggs carrying a different title???
Oh, and yes, our bunny is a bit shorter and fatter, but he'll be hoppin by this Sunday!!
Same plastic eggs, but not the same stuff inside. This site explains them pretty well http://www.easyfunschool.com/article2110.html
No kids yet, but when we do, I'm sure we'll have some fun kids fantasy mixed up with the truth.
When I was growing up, we always knew both aspects…I loved that
Oh my goodness! That video was hilarious! I do not have kids but if I do someday…we will do both Resurrection Sunday (the real reason) and have some eggs and candy as well!
At 5 my daughter refused to believe in the Easter Bunny. She came to me in private and whispered that we should not ruin it for Nori (grandma) because “she still believed”. We do Jesus, the basket and chocolate though!
No, we don't do the Easter Bunny or Santa or anything like that in our house. HOWEVER…we make sure they know to just be cool about it when other kids or their teachers do. No breaking kids hearts. Just play along and let them be who they want to be and believe what they want. My abosolute funniest story…we were standing in line a Kohl's last Christmas and my youngest was acting a fool. The lady behind the counter says to my kids, "YOu better be good or Santa won't come to see you." I see the look on my 6-year-olds face…praying she doesn't say anything b'c there are 50 million kids around us. She just smiles. Then motions for me to bend down. She wispers in my ear…"I know Santa isn't real, but I don't want to ruin it for that lady." I lost it!
very cool…
that rabbit better be coming to my house on sunday. if he doesnt, im going to have one heck of a key chain when im done hunting him down and skinning him.
HAHAHAHAHAH
no surprises there!
Easter bunny, Santa (although he is called Father Christmas here), tooth fairy (well we will probably in a few years time). I can't wait till my kids call me out on it like I did when I busted my parents doing the Father Christmas thing.
Oh yea and when I tried to watch the video I got a "this video is not available in your country or domain" what's up with that?
Ah…i read the kids Father Christmas stories from Tolkien every year and every version of Dickens's I can find from the good the bad to the ugly
Santa yes, Tooth Fairy yes. Isn't Easter when Jesus rose from the dead and hid the eggs?
lol
We don't do the bunny. Mostly because we're usually serving Easter and I can't handle an extra production. Plus the kids fight over all the candy and become lunatics from the sugar. They love the helicopter Easter egg drop though. My daughter is convinced that her entire 2nd grade class is coming. Why wouldn't they she thinks.
Really? I promise I had no idea there was a difference
. Learn sumthin new every day 
. Thanks!!
sunday we have another family from church coming over for lunch to get to know them.they've never been to someone's house other than grandma's for the holidays…wow…
we are doing the easter-egg hunt and the morning of Stewart, Lexi, & Jackson all get baskets whilst their old man is sweating over his talk for sunrise service and the first hour and a multi-media piece…
oh and soccer games ALL day Saturday…awesome…
what's the hold-up? i've got 3 and i didn't want more since the rest of our family had so many(sister in law w/5 and brother in law with 6)
i missed the crazy community that goes on here…
No bunny. Just Jesus. The basket is from "Grandma" …
My parents never did the Easter bunny with us and I doubt I'll do it with my hypothetical children. Same reason: I'm just not comfortable lying to kids.
Fantastic!
If I told my Congolese friends about the Easter bunny, I'm pretty sure they'd look at me like I had snakes crawling out of my ears.
Yes growing up we did Santa and the Easter Bunny and we've continued the tradition in our family. However we do read the Nativity story during the Christmas season and read the last week of Jesus' life here on earth during the Easter week. We've taught both of our girls the true meaning of both of these special holidays and what they mean to us as Christ followers.
our 9-year-old asked us this weekend and we totally busted out the truth…. we've evaded for a while but refuse to lie to her, so we came clean on all fictional gift-giving characters. we've always focused on Jesus anyways…
however, my parents usually bring us some Cadbury Eggs and fast food gift cards in an Easter Basket, and I'll never complain about free stuff!
Our hypothetical kids will just be given it with a smile and a wink, but never with the assumption that they're real. We'll tell them that Krampus is real, though, because FEAR WORKS.
Billie's story is my favorite.
Ha, at least they keel it real with you
What's a Krampus?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Christian_Alpine...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companions_of_Saint_...
Basically, instead of "toys" vs. "coal" being brought by Santa, in this tradition, if you're good, Santa brings you stuff…if you're bad, Krampus takes you away in a sack. Maybe you're made into toys?!
I kid, of course, but the thought is amusing to me.
We did them all, tooth fairy, Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus. Then my bright straight-A son, kept growing up and kept believing. I was sure he'd figure it out and he just didn't. He was baptized and believing in Jesus and I suddenly became very, very afraid that when we broke it to him about the others he'd put God and Jesus into the same category so I was very pleased when one day we were riding in the car and he said, "I don't believe in the Easter Bunny."
"You don't?" I asked. "Well, who do you think brings all the candy and hides the eggs on Easter?"
"Well, it can't be a real bunny, because he can't carry all the candy and toys. And it can't be a man dressed up in a bunny suit because he can't get around the whole world in one night…"
At this point, I am nodding my head with a big goofy smile, and waving my hands back and forth between me and my husband to make sure he gets it, "So…who do you think does it then?"
Without missing a beat he replies, "I think it's really Santa Claus because he already has a workshop, elves to help him and a sleigh to make it around the world in one night…."
My answer to the Resurrection Bunny issue… http://jasonwhitehorn.info/blog/2009/04/10/why-ar...