Dear Easter, You are not exactly the Easter I remember. Sure iKnow the reason for the season an really believe that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and arose from the dead...just for me (and you to) but what happened to the Easter of old???The Easter of '86???
This is what I used to remember about EASTER:
-Taking a picture with the Easter Bunny at the mall
-PEEPS (the marshmallow chickens...yuck)
-Dying eggs (the house always smelled like eggs and vinegar when we were done)
-Patent Leather Shoes (I used to refer to mine as "BOBBY BROWNS"...hell to tha nah said WHITNEY)
-Cadburd Farms Commercials (with the rabbit dressed as a chicken)
-BLACK JELLY BEANS (why?why?why?...nobody eats BLACK Jelly Beans)
-The Clip-On tie
-Seeing my clothes laid out on the bed the night before
-"1,2,3...say CHEESE" (my grandfather sure LOVES taking pictures)
-The "GREEN" plastic grass that lined the Easter basket
-Seeing that same "GREEN" grass all over the house for weeks
-MY EASTER SPEECH "Jesus Wept..." (that's all I could remember then, and all I can remember now)
-Girls with the NASTY which lace socks and white patent leather shoes (act like y'all didn't have the sock and glove set)
-"Why are there sooooooo many NEW people at church today,and why won't they come back next Sunday?"
-Actually eating those Powder Blue,Pink,and Canary Boiled Eggs (and you know what happened next)
-The HOLLOW Chocolate Easter Bunny (iKnow I didn't have to eat his head 1st but I did anyway)
-The Barbershop being STUPID packed on Saturday...but you had to have the fresh cut for sunday
-The year my mom let me wear jeans and a t-shirt to church on Easter...(that was like a MICHAEL from GOOD TIMES moment or we were really broke but she wanted to keep it real with me,that's why I love my mama)
-The YEAR WE DIDN'T go to church (I won't ask...)
-"My Easter Monday Outfit" (I used to wonder why some kids only paid $28 a month for rent AND they got an EASTER MONDAY outfit...iKnow now)
-CAROWINDS (it was the MECCA...or should I say Bethlehem of EASTER weekend.
-Candy being 50% off on Monday
-Spring Break being over on Tuesday and we're back in school...and some kids has EASTER TUESDAY outfits because "...my mama said "we don't go to church any other time...why go on Easter???" [so you get 2 EASTER outfits but nothing for church???]
I remember a few other things but we don't need to get into all that Easter all I need you today for me is bring back some of the traditions, some of the values that we grew up with...22 years from now I don't Baby Ayden telling the stories of Peter CottonTail and the Bunny Trail without giving his mom and dad credit for keeping his Easter Sunday outfit as fresh as his Easter Monday outfit.
And another thing...enough is enough with them damn black jelly beans.
Former Clip-On tie wearin' Easter Supporter Since '82
-iKnowTANK
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