A "Peep" at Easter Week

It's Easter Week. It's a very important religious holiday for some, and I do respect that. It is also celebrated by those who are not as religious. For those people the center of attention is the Easter bunny and eggs. I don't know how or why someone equated rabbits and eggs, but that's the way it is. When I was young there was a newspaper column called "Tell Me Why". I remember mailing a question to them. I asked how the Easter bunny originated. I never did abide by blind faith so I wanted to know. I never heard a word back. I'm sure the newspaper didn't want to disappoint children or they didn't know. This was way before the internet. More than seventy years later I found this information from Wikipedia. Who knew there is a connection between religion and folklore.

"The Easter Bunny is a folkloric figure and symbol of Easter, depicted as a rabbit-sometimes dressed with clothes- bringing Easter eggs. Originating among German Lutherans, the "Easter Hare" originally played the role of a judge, evaluating whether children were good or disobedient in behavior at the start of the season of Eastertide, similar to the "naughty or nice" list made by Santa Claus" 

There are rabbit, chicks and egg decoration in every store. Especially "Peeps" which are right up there, in my opinion, with candy corn. I doubt I have ever even eaten one but the idea of a rabbit shaped marshmallow is quite distasteful to me. However, they are super cute.

Other crafting people must feel the same way because there are a lot of patterns on social media for making these non edible creations. Not to be left out, I headed downstairs to my yarn stash. I found a couple skeins of yarn left over from many years ago and started crocheting. 

These are my first efforts. They are useless but really cute decorations.

There must be something about rabbits reproducing because I didn't stop there. I went to Dollar Tree and bought several balls of Chenille yarn. One ball for $1.25 makes a bunny with yardage to spare. Then I was told the local Dollar Tree is restructuring the store and everything is 50% off, so of course I bought more yarn. I have a problem, I know. Before I knew it, I had a whole family.  

If love is in the air, I am sure I will be seeing more of the real thing very soon.