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A Large Chocolate Easter Bunny with a Ribbon too

Easter-egg-cup

The problem with buying Easter eggs before Easter is that I eat them.

It is as simple as that.

At least I have this photo to prove that I did buy Easter Eggs.

But then again maybe proof is not what I need.

On Easter morning, when my family wonders where the Easter eggs are, I'll say, "Gee the Easter Bunny hid them really well this year didn't he!"

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Sacha sheepishly informed me last night that he hoped for a large beautiful chocolate bunny. "Mom," he said, "like the ones I saw in the shop window, you know, big with a beautiful ribbon."

"A big Chocolate Bunny?"

He looked down, blushed, lifted his eyes up, while nodding his head yes.

"A big B-E-A-U-T-F-U-L bunny, right?" I said while loving every minute of this sweet exchange.

"With a ribbon too," he added.

I hope my boy never grows up, and I guess it doesn't matter that I ate the Easter eggs as he hopes for a large beautiful bunny instead.

Comments

45 responses to “A Large Chocolate Easter Bunny with a Ribbon too”

  1. Gina

    You better get down that shop quickly while they still have some bunnies left!
    I left it very late a couple of years ago and almost missed out. Easter bunny would have had some very disappointed kids on Easter morning!
    I learned from that and bought mine today. Just better find a good hiding place now and one that I don’t feel tempted to raid when the kids are sleeping tonight….

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  2. Julie

    ooh big beautiful bunny with ribbon.. sounds like Lindt to me!! My weakness.. What a sweet boy you have..

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  3. Julie M ~ The Little Red Shop

    My eldest brother’s birthday is just a few days after Easter. We give him chocolate for every occasion. Maybe this year…he needs a big chocolate bunny too! Thank you for the sweet idea, Corey!
    Happy Easter!
    : )
    Julie M.

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  4. bramble

    My shaggy haired 16 year old mentioned that he hoped Easter would NOT be like the candy light Christmas stocking he had this yaer. I guess you are never too old to enjoy a good chocolate rabbit! Happy Easter!!!!

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  5. Laura

    How sweet your Sacha is….
    …and now, of course you must go to the ends of the earth or at least every chocolate shop in town to find the perfect beautiful bunny with a ribbon…how we love our children!
    …and how delightful and fun is it to be able to please them! Happy Easter Corey!
    🙂 Laura

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  6. Elizabeth

    Bless his heart.
    I hope you don’t bite off the ears.

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  7. Jeanne

    Love you
    and please take a picture of that big chocolate bunny with the bow
    I would love to see it
    Love you
    Happy Easter to you and your family♥

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  8. Rhonda

    I hope Easter Bunny brings Sacha the chocolate bunny with the bow. I love Easter eggs and I also eat them before Easter, but this year I hide them. Out of sight out of mind. Happy Easter to you and your family and also Annie xxx

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  9. Marie-Noëlle

    No, no, no… NO EASTER BUNNY, Corey !!!
    The Easter BELLS will do the job !!!
    ding dong ding dong …
    😉

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  10. Vicki

    How sweet….enjoy every moment with Sacha!!
    As far as eating the chocolate….I have tried freezing the candy but somehow I developed a taste for it frozen. Now I just buy it right before so the candy is safe!!!

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  11. Linda C.

    I know if my 3 children, all older than your Sacha didn’t get their customary chocolate Easter bunny,they would all gang up on me & ask “So,.. the Easter Bunny, what is it Mum, a strike, a budget or with a roll of the eyes, oh, they’re not good for us”?
    Once you start a family tradition, that’s it for life…
    I love it!

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  12. deborah

    I love it! There really is nothing like a chocolate bunny!

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  13. Rachel

    I eat all the easter eggs too. And what about the little tiny one’s with alcohol inside. Yum.
    We have a mixed Easter. The bells leave chocolate eggs in the garden for them to find and the Easter Bunny comes all the way from the states to leave baskets of chocolate just outside the door.

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  14. Penny

    Ah. Traditions. They have always been detrimental to my waistline.
    Make sure you get two chocolate bunnies as you need to test one first to make sure it is up to bunny standards.

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  15. Jeanette M.

    I love that he still wants his “beautiful” chocolate bunny. It’s just so sweet. I do not buy any candy more than two days before Easter because it won’t make it to the baskets. My daughter doesn’t really like candy (I don’t know HOW this is possible) but she still likes to get a little basket with bits and bobs in it. She’s now 24!
    I agree with Jeanne – please show us photo of French Choc’ Bunny. Also, I love the color of those eggs in the photo, pretty.

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  16. Maria Chamorro

    Really love your blog. Beautiful. Have a great day!

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  17. Cheryl ~ Casual Cottage Chic

    Oh, before Sacha eats the chocolate ears off, do take a picture of the bunny with the ribbon! My husband still loves those awful, pure sugar, marshmellow yellow peeps and pink bunnies. Ugh!! But…cause I love him so, I buy them and line them up on a plate on Easter morning, like little soldiers. They will be gone before noon! I love the Cadbury chocolate eggs. Hope Mr. Bunny remembers 🙂

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  18. georgie

    Get a bunny with a ribbon for each of you! A family photo of you, Yann, Chelsea and Sacha with your Easter bunnies would be great! We have a big basket of Easter egg chocolates at work. It is hard not to eat more than one per day. Friday I’ll give my coworker the box of Russell Stover chocolates she said she wanted and hopefully I’ll get the chocolate bunny I asked for.

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  19. linda

    My son thought Chocolate Easter Bunnies had two holes on the top of their heads until he was 12, that was when some nosy neighbor kid implied that his mother my be giving him a have eaten bunny, busted.
    Lulu

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  20. Christine Wittmann

    Kids grow up way too fast these days. It’s wonderful that your son still has a bit of the little boy in him, I think most men always retain that yet somehow today I see so many kids growing up not having known many tender moments like this and it’s such a shame. It’s little things like this they do remember the rest of their lives.

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  21. jend’isère

    What joy to eat animals in chocolate form, vegetarians or not! Carefully untie the bow and enjoy!

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  22. Jenny N

    AWWWW! Thank you for sharing that sweet moment.

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  23. AmyKortuem

    Very sweet! My mom still makes Easter baskets and hides them for me and my brother…and I’m 42! What a sweet boy you have. I’d get him the biggest chocolate bunny with a bow I could find if he were mine!

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  24. Star

    My mother has that same difficulty…although I’m not sure where the tipping point is between losing out to willpower and actually knowing you will consume them (so you just buy them once in advance and once just before the holiday to balance it all out)! 🙂 As for me, I know that I can’t trust myself with them in the house so I don’t buy them in the first place.
    I hope Sacha gets his bunny with a ribbon!

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  25. Chris

    Darling Sacha and an Easter Bunny too! Enjoy~~~

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  26. Jeanne

    May you never outgrow the childhood celebrations. I just sent Easter “baskets” to my 2 daughters (ages 31 and 34) who live on the other side of the country. I can’t be with them for Easter, but they will have their baskets and Easter eggs.

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  27. Alicia

    How lovely!!! I would love to see what a French chocolate bunny beautiful enough to go on a shop window looks like 🙂
    I decorated my mantel with Easter stuff for the first time ever – roses and chocolate bunnies. The bunnies are slowly disappearing.
    I can’t wait until next year when Eleanor (now 7 months) will be able to hunt around for eggs!

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  28. Denise Solsrud

    ah, guess who will be receiving a chocolate bunny with a ribbon? that easter bunny has such sweet job. 🙂 🙂 Bestest,Denise

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  29. chelsea

    me too me too!!
    i want a big chocolate bunny !!!

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  30. Shelley @ decoragain.blogspot.com

    You can take the boy away from the bunny but you can’t….
    and really why would you? Baby boys are B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!

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  31. Terresa Wellborn

    I Love Those Eggs. Mmm. And my children, too, who remind me of Chocolate Bunnies and Pet Shop toys and all things good and holy.

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  32. Marilyn

    After re-reading the Easter Bunny babysitter story, I think Sasha deserve a big chocolate rabbit with a pretty ribbon.

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  33. Vickie

    I still make baskets for my 23 and 25 yr. old daughters and they love it.

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  34. Jenna

    That is the sweetest exchange. I hope he gets the biggest bunny in the shop covered in satin ribbon. Are ears as important there as they are here?

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  35. Tracy

    OMGosh Corey!! I have made a huge revelation in my life today involving you. Just for a history, I stumbled onto your blog this past year from another blogger and I am hooked. It is like my husband has to read the sports page and then the front page of the newspaper, I read the comics and when I get to work pull up your blog when no one is looking. I am hooked. Now here comes my major discovery today. Today I was floating around on your blog with the “you might like this” and I stumbled onto a picture which made me freeze. I couldn’t wait to get home. All my adult life I have kept inspiration books as far as decorating goes. I am extremely sensitive to my surroundings, and I keep these journals and actually cut out pictures and photos that reflect the real me, if I were to one day create “my” home. Today on your blog I saw the orange, and the angel and a light bulb went off! Could this be the same person whom is in my journal and who I now read religiously each day? OnE In ThE SaMe!!! I am so excited to put these two pieces of creative fun together. Oh yeah. You have to write a book. I am going to be (let’s see here do the math) I think I turn 54 this September. You know, it really is a small world when it comes down to kind people and creativity. Just wanted you to know. Tracy from Houston Texas.

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  36. pam aries

    Love this..andnow that I have spent the past year at my neice’s ..and enjoying her 9 yearold son and 11 yr old daughter…I can now relate !

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  37. mindi

    How funny-Ive been eating my foil easter eggs too! Now I think Im going to have to dig into them right now!

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  38. yvonne

    I am old and I remember buying Easter Dresses for Renee and Easter hats and Baby jane shoes. Coloring eggs with my Mom, and hiding them for Renee to find. Beautiful memories. I miss it all. Enjoy your Children
    and Family.

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  39. Susana Stevens

    Spencer is right there with Sacha! Happy Easter to all of you!

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  40. Amy

    I’ve got a bunny to give Sacha. I’ll even put a ribbon on him! (the bunny, not Sacha…lol) And….we can pretend that what the bunny is leaving behind is chocolate!
    Hmm….not the same, huh? (although, our bunny is potty trained. He only goes in his litter box!)

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  41. Elizabeth Harper

    Easter, Halloween, Christmas, if there is candy in the house, I usually eat it before the big day comes. Sometimes, I buy it twice. Oh the shame of it … 🙂

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  42. joanny

    Corey
    That sounds like a pretty good excuse to me — I did hide the eggs one year for my boys and we had a scavenger hunt — and I counted the eggs before I hide them – well they found the eggs and treats and all or so I thought — till months later we uncovered some very smashed chocolate eggs — oh my-
    Happy Easter,
    Joanny

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  43. Lee

    How sweet. I hope my boys are like that when the grow up.

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  44. Sara

    I can’t resist chocolate either. Even bags of chocolate chips don’t live long in my pantry. I love that Sacha wants a bunny. That is just precious.

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