Well they’ve gotten rid of Christmas.  Of course Easter’s next.  Gabriel came home from school today with a gift from what he said was a “great, big mouse”. It was a yellow stuffed duck and a little Easter egg with a bouncy ball and a sticker inside.  I asked some questions about the big mouse, trying to figure out what he was talking about.  He was giving vague answers, so I dropped the issue.  I then looked in his communication notebook, where his teachers and I can leave notes for each other. His teacher said his class had a visit from the “Spring Bunny”.  So the “great, big mouse” is a bunny. And not just any bunny, the “Spring Bunny”. Please.  Heaven forbid we call it an Easter Bunny.

Easter isn’t even a Christian holiday. It’s roots are deeply planted in paganism.  Of course the idea of bunnies this time of year is also planted in paganism, so maybe a “Resurrection Day Mouse” would be better. Or maybe just sacrilegious. Do we really even need a cute little mascot?