Bit of a random post tonight but what I want to say is a little bigger than a Facebook status so here goes…

Opening statement: Easter isn’t big enough.  Christmas is huge – the build up, the cost, the decorating, the wrapping, the card writing, the food (one of my favourite parts – since I started cooking Christmas dinner in my own home I feel the need to constantly beat Last Year Me… it’s stressful yet exhilarating…) and ultimately the excitement.  I just reminded myself of a Monica moment in a Friends episode with that Last Year Me thing.  I love Friends.  But back to the point.  Easter isn’t big enough.  We get four days off work (most of us anyway..) and we kind of don’t do enough with them!  If you go into any reputable cheapo pound shop or any beautiful Paperchase store you can buy loads of fancy and fun Easter decorations but who buys them?  My mum, to decorate her stall (she runs simplyTrue Jewellery) because she is forever enthusiastic about everything in the best way possible, but who else?  Maybe families to decorate for Easter Egg hunts for their little ones I guess… but I’m going to hazard a guess that most people don’t decorate for Easter.  And I really, really wish we did.

It’s like Halloween.  I love the way America does it.  In 2014 we were in California for the first part of October and already in some places they had amazing displays outside of the shops – huge scary figures and just such an amount of effort.  I love Halloween but we just don’t bother over here.  It became a bit of a tradition when I was at school that my best friend and I would hold Halloween parties that just we were invited to (no we weren’t really the cool kids….) and we would have loads of sweets, we would dress up a bit and watch scary movies in her lounge in the dark.  And if we are ever both free around Halloween these days then we do the same.  Because it’s fun!

Anyway.  Maybe I’ve eaten too much chocolate today (I don’t have an off switch.  I actually don’t.  And I ordered my wedding dress in a size too small so if you see me with anything other than a bloody apple in my hand between now and September then for God’s sake TACKLE ME).  Maybe the chocolate is what has inspired this post because I’m not entirely sure there’s much of a point to it other than a bit of a vent… I just think that life is pretty hard sometimes but everyone looks forward to Christmas.  I’m not suggesting we go as crazy as we do at Christmas – it can get a little out of hand sometimes – but just a little bigger, you know? A few decorations… a few sweets…. a party… maybe a little fancy dress!  Let’s go a little American on Easter’s ass!

Well that’s pretty much it I think.  To summarise: at Easter let’s decorate, at Halloween let’s dress up and watch scary films, I love Friends a lot and finally, if you see me shovelling food into my mouth then for the sake of the dress, stop me.

Happy Easter y’all ;)