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In your Easter Bonnet…and other musings
Here’s a safe bet:
If you see any Easter bonnets today, they’ll adorn the head of someone under 8 or over 80.
Almost nobody wears them anymore even if they are made with Easter candy!
I think they went the way of white gloves and black patent leather shoes.
But candy? chocolate candy?
Remember the I Love Lucy episode at the chocolate factory? ….
…the speeding conveyor belt with them stuffing the fast moving chocolates anywhere and everywhere?
As a previous chocolate store owner, I say that chocolate beats all of the other Easter candy choices.
And just to be sure I was not prejudiced, I checked out some statistics and found that 70% of Easter candy that is purchased is chocolate, with 90 million chocolate bunnies made for Easter each year! (from the National Confectioner’s Associate)
And how do you eat your Easter bunny?
Believe it or not, they had a survey about how Easter bunnies should be eaten!
76% of Americans said ears first,
5% said feet first, and
4% favored eating the tail first!
So, what’s your favorite Easter candy?
Peeps?
Each Easter season, Americans buy more than 700 million Marshmallow Peeps, shaped like chicks, as well as Marshmallow bunnies and Marshmallow Eggs, making them the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy. And I’ll bet most folks are not using them to make Easter bonnets!
Jellybeans?
We Americans consume 16 billion jellybeans at Easter. If all the Easter jellybeans were lined end to end, they would circle the globe nearly three times.
Easter is the second most important candy-eating occasion of the year (after Halloween) for Americans, who spent $2.1 billion on Easter candy. (according to the National Confectioner’s Association)
In the middle of the commercialism of chocolate eggs and bunnies, it can be easy to forget the true meaning of this special time.
Easter is a time of rebirth and renewal.
The recurring cycles that are marked by the feasts and celebrations of the year have a real value that we acknowledge in our more contemplative moments.
As they come again and again,
they teach us the same lessons from a new point of view.
Renewal and rebirth are the touchstones of spring. We can take this opportunity to remind ourselves to slow down, to breathe, to contemplate, to just be.
What does this special season mean to you?
What’s on your “Not-To-Do” list?
On the path to your happiness, your peace, and your success, you can find that what you stop doing is just as important as the things you start doing. In order to create something real, something good, something rewarding, you need to carve out and throw out all the possible ways that something will not be. […]
I am..?
Because I remember that every time I say “I am…(insert quality)” I am claiming and affirming that quality for myself, I have made a list of qualities I WANT to claim and affirm instead! Rather than I am tired/confused/irritated/sad/angry…I have focused on claiming positive qualities. As an ex-English teacher, I know lots of words to choose from! […]
Thoughts for March
It’s already the last Sunday of the month and here are my favorite quotes for March so you can choose your favorite! We so […]
Musing on Crayons
Did we really learn everything we needed to know in kindergarten? Maybe much more than we think! I know the pictures I drew were more fun and lively when I used more of the different colors! And some sure do have weird names! Here are a few of my favorite names (those folks were really creative!): […]
The Humongous Difference Between Persistence and Perseverance
Most of us use persistence and perseverance interchangeably. And though they are very similar in a lot of ways, there are a few subtle differences that can have massive effects on the outcome of your situation. You are at a job you hate or in a relationship that just isn’t working out. You put your […]
The Necessary Art of Subtraction
On Overwhelm? Most of us have gotten caught up in the process of addition. After all it is easier than subtraction-that’s why we were taught it first! And the tendency in our lives seems to be to keep adding: more tasks, more appointments, more gadgets, more clothes, more furniture. It’s so American. Well, maybe it’s […]
More thoughts to think about!
So many thoughts! So many ideas! So many meaningful quotes! There’s just so many to choose from! Here’s my eight for this short month of February. What are your favorites? […]