Classes may be out for spring break, but my second grader got schooled big time on Easter Sunday.
Thanks to the extreme generosity of parents, grandparents, neighbors and the Easter Bunny, my daughter received not one, not two, not three, but six different chocolate rabbits.
While her haul could have been the basis of many lessons, including self-control, charity, gratitude, and the dangers of excessive sugar consumption, she instead spent Easter learning the difference between “solid” and “hollow.”
As in, just because you receive a two-foot tall chocolate bunny dressed in a top hat, blue bow tie, and a cummerbund decorated with little candy flowers, doesn’t mean that he won’t shatter into a million pieces when you sink your teeth into his ear… if he is “hollow.”
You just never know what kids will take away from holidays.
For some reason, the hollow chocolate bunny versus solid chocolate bunny lesson is one my daughter hopped over the last few years. I guess.
Honestly, I didn’t give it much thought until I saw the look on her face when she went in for the all-molar side-bite thinking she needed the extra canine endurance to remove a portion of Peter Cottontail’s chocolate ear. Only when she chomped down with the force of a ravenous bear cub on her candy hare, she was shockingly met with a quarter-inch of pure chocolate and three quarters of pure air.
Judging from her reaction, biting into a hollow chocolate bunny shell is no way to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection.
The bunny’s broken corpse laid on the table for a bit while I pieced together my daughter’s shattered illusion that all chocolate rabbits are 100 percent solid.
Interestingly, though not surprisingly, my daughter explained that she chose the biggest bunny to begin her Easter eating adventures because, well, he was the biggest. Ironically, she later discovered that the smaller bunnies were the ones made of solid chocolate.
So, what did we walk away with this Easter?
Bigger is not always better… and dogs don’t care if chocolate bunnies are hollow, as long as you leave them unattended on the couch while you’re busy sucking on the ear of a solid chocolate rabbit.
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