Weekly MSC: Holiday Magic Easter · Mental Load Basics

Weekly MSC: Holiday Magic Easter

This past week I owned Easter management between creating magic for our toddler and prepping the meal to bring to my Aunts' house. I failed in multiple ways, so this week we are looking at what worked and what didn't work:

Easter recap:

156 eggs filled found opened

Pastel m&ms

Peanut m&ms

Reese’s peices eggs

Big chocolate foil Reese’s eggs

Pom poms

Hello kitty things

Rocks

Trident bubble gum

Big:

New paint

Bracelet making kit

Slime bucket

Fails:

Z hand writing in post-its for big things

Eggs same as day before at bridal shower

{Easter bunny only comes on Easter }

For next year:

-eggs should not be the same as anything used in days prior, maybe shiny paint on them

-keep running list of things that “bunny might get” and buy at different time

-handwriting should be different than mine, either typed or cursive or something

-150 was too much, took too long and started encroaching on time we needed to leave including time to play with items

-at age 2.5 really had a hard time seeing them, 3.5 could see a lot, but struggled to look in things. I think 50-70 eggs could be plenty

-when she started seeing rocks, she started opening them up to see what was inside which def made her sad with the expectation of treats

-seemed a little let down by Pom poms too

-gum she also seemed let down by

-I think puzzle 🧩 would have been a let down too…

For next year

-setting up some ground rules the day before about eating candy, eating greens and having breakfast before eating candy? Or at least a deal about how much before breakfast, then just sticking to those standards

What if all the eggs had letters, and a number, and when put together it said where the basket was?

General next week:

You’ve been coaching me on how many limits I’m setting which I really struggle with in the moment as I don’t really want to be setting them in the first place. Reading the room the same way you do around when I’m setting too many rules is something I’m struggling with. I’m still feeling a lot of fear around disagreeing with something you are doing in the moment and sharing that with you.

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