after 10.75 years the jig was up. odin went to bed and said, “you know, someday you’re going to *have* to tell me the easter bunny, santa claus and the tooth fairy aren’t real.”
he’d noticed Incongruities for a few years that raised A Few Questions. Serious Doubts emerged after the topic came up in the hockey locker room and none of his teammates believed in any of it anymore. a few months ago he was reading a judy blume book ( i forget off hand which one ) and the characters just flat out talked about santa not being real WITH NO SPOILER ALERTS?! the clock was ticking and he had recently started up with The Questions.
after he went to bed i wrote a note in jest. obviously in my handwriting ( after years of trying to conceal it ) and with a reference to a recent scrabble game that would surely give it away.
in the morning, it turned out that he wasn’t quite as sure as we thought and the humor of my note was maybe not so humorous 🙁 he was bluffing, sort-of. i think he really knew but still some part of him didn’t want to believe.
in the end he was a little sad but i think also a little happy to realize he’s A Big Boy.
when all was said and done he only asked, 365project365project2015eastereaster bunnynote
so, i found myself in an easter church service and was bemused to open the program and find it done in none other than comic sans which is a font originally intended to imitate the feel of comic book lettering and is infamous for misuse which is chronicled on sites such as ban comic sans. it certainly wouldn’t be my first choice for an easter church service program but, hey, the CERN scientists presented higgs boson findings in comic sans and the vatican published a 62-page online photo album to commemorate Pope Benedict XVI’s papacy in the font so the church program is actually in pretty good company. it makes me smile to see an easter egg odin made with grandmother sitting in a basket odin made at school filled with real easter grass that grows and grows and grows. i like that odin makes the basket every year as a vibrant and tangible reminder that spring and its promise of renewal is, literally, right around the corner. and it’s much more pleasant smelling and soothing to the senses than that nasty plastic grass 🙂 this year the school used rye, i believe, which grew an astonishing inch per day and goes from seed to needing a trim in about a week. next year we’ll need hopefully dye some eggs from The Girls. projected U.S. 2011 easter candy sales: $2.1 billion. possibly relatedly, bite the head off that chocolate bunny while reading the recent excellent article, is sugar toxic? odin has been touting around his easter basket made by his mother for five years and it’s about time he made his own with his grandmother! he has some serious attention to detail and patience. i need to get him an etsy shop. i sense a real revenue opportunity here. just kidding. sort-of.an easter church service program set in comic sans.
grow yer own grass for easter!
easter candy toxicity
day 2484: making birch easter baskets.
