Dead Rabbits at My Easter Celebration

Sorry, Trish.  Perhaps you should stop reading now.

For the rest of you, I’m having some Easter Egg Hunt anxiety.  I have been working for many weeks now on getting the Church’s Easter Celebration and Egg Hunt launched, or should I say hatched?  We are transitioning the event from a member centered, between-the-services happening, to a community outreach to-do.

My budget is small, my goals are big, weather plays an issue and I’ve had more than one of those “two-steps-forward-and-one-step-through-a-wormhole” processes.  Not to say that I haven’t had some truly remarkable and wonderful things happen, it’s just in the realm of advertising, I just can’t get my event arrested!

I’ve tried to get this function into several community free papers that ALWAYS have a list of Easter Egg Hunts in them or on-line.  I sent the press releases early and often.  Not a single one printed our event.  Even the ones that said they would – didn’t!!!  (I’m really thinking there was a bribe I should have paid or something…)  I need at least 50 kids to come for me to even begin to think of this as a success.  I’m ready for up to 100.  I’ve got games, prizes, candy, stories, snacks, Mother Goose and a really well dressed Easter Bunny.  I’ve resorted to standing in the park handing out fliers.

Furthermore, I’m underwhelmed by the vinyl signs I ordered, and to add insult to injury, I noticed a dead rabbit under my “COME TO THE EASTER CELEBRATION” sign today.  It’s like a calling card from an Easter Hitman, saying “Your next, Flopsy!”  All I need is some poor, apple-cheeked lad next Saturday going, “Hey Mommy!  Lookie!  I found the Easter Bunny!  WhaaAAAAAAA…….!”

Oh.  Crap.

I’ve got 10 days to disappear that dead rabbit and attract about 87 more kids.  Here’s to hoping a dog comes along to eat that street pizza, a loaded school bus breaks down in front of the church, and I don’t get arrested for luring children at the park.

So, you want some candy?