One year on Easter, when I was about eight years old, we went to my Aunt Joy and Uncle Joe’s house for a barbecue in the mid-afternoon. As we did every year, we took our Easter baskets with us wherever we went, including to their house. After a while, my aunt told us we should put our baskets in her bedroom so we could play without having to worry about our baskets and all of our stuff falling out. She took them to her bedroom for us.
Later, we asked our mom if we could have a candy from our baskets and she said we could. We were good. We knew from experience that one candy meant ONE candy so we took only one. I remember thinking that our baskets weren’t as full as they should be but I just took my one candy and went outside, as did my sisters.
We played and we ate and instead of having cake for dessert, we asked if we could have a candy from our baskets and once again, we were told we could. When we went to my aunt’s room to get our candy, most of our candy was gone. We hadn’t taken it. We looked to see if it had fallen out but there was no sign of our candy. When we went back outside, we told our mom and she said we had probably taken more than one when we were supposed to take only one. We hadn’t.
Later, when it was time to leave for home, there were no candies left in our baskets. We hadn’t been inside the house in a long time and there had been candy left in our baskets then. No one had gone inside, except my aunt. My mom investigated. She believed us but she couldn’t very well say my Aunt Joy had taken it. My mom went outside and told my father that we had eaten all our candy. My father got mad at us and then my aunt spoke up and said she had taken some of our candy because we had so much. She liked candy, she said, and she didn’t get any because there were no kids in her house so she had taken “one or two” of our candies from each basket. There were four of us girls there and all the candy was gone from all of our baskets! Yup, she had taken “one or two”!
I remind Aunt Joy from time to time and we laugh about it. When I go to her house for Easter, I take her a basket of her very own candy and we laugh! I’m going to be near her house today so I’m thinking of putting some of the left over candy in a little basket for her and dropping them off. I hope she’s there so I can laugh with her! Who said Easter candy is only for kids?!
happy easter corina!!
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I am glad you and Aunt Joy can laugh about it now… Happy Easter Corina!
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I can imagine any child’s distress over missing candy. Kids always seem to know just how much they have in their baskets. Happy Easter, Corina.
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I hope she was there and you had a wonderful time. Happy Easter!
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That’s both funny and kind of disconcerting at the same time … and gives a whole new meaning to “It’s as easy as taking candy from a baby.”
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I’m worried about Aunt Joy. Did anything else go missing during your visits with Aunt Joy? 🙂
I hope you had a lovely Easter and shared some candy and a good laugh with Aunt Joy.
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It’s funny now, but it would have been a real trauma for me if I’d been a kid and my candy was gone! I’m glad you can laugh about it now!
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It’s quite lovely that you were able to laugh about this. I think it was nasty of her, especially when you guys got blames. Oh, well, you are far more forgiving a person than I am.
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Aunt Joy was pregnant at the time. I think that “excused” her in a lot of eyes.
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