Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Older and Wilder with Joy and Claire. Hello, hello. Happy Easter. We're recording on Easter, so we hope you had a great one.

Happy Easter week, I guess. I don't know. Is Easter week the week leading up to Easter? I feel like maybe it is. So happy after Easter. It's good Friday. There's East. I mean, yes. And then Easter Monday. It's a, it's a whole celebration. Yeah. Yes. Today's Easter Sunday. We're recording at 8 a.m. My kids are not awake yet. We were just talking about how normally their Easter baskets are left outside their door. I had to move them because they are no. I thought they would maybe wake up before we started recording. They did not. And so they're full of things that a dog might think like, oh, sure. This basket is for me. And we actually intentionally try to not give the dogs stuffed animals as dog toys because in our house,'s like we want to make it clear like stuff things are not for you right it's not like they've never been given stuffed animals and so like you know it's sort of hard to unring that bell not only yeah and not only that but yeah it's like and river is so funny, we are militant about closing the doors to the kids' bedrooms when we leave the house

because many a beloved stuffed animal has been ripped to shreds.

Sure.

And actually not ripped to shreds, like meticulously disemboweled.

There's a method.

There is a method.

One time Miles' most beloved stuffed animal was just had its face eaten.

Just the most gruesome way to die.

Serial killer type of thing.

Exactly.

Like it puts the lotion on its skin situation.

So, yeah.

But like everyone's in a blue moon.

We will forget to close the doors. Or what normally is what happens is all closed the doors. And then the kids like run back upstairs to like get like they forgot their jacket or something. And then they don't close the door behind them. And that happened last night and we got home. And River had not destroyed any stuffy animals, but she had taken all of miles stuffed animals and brought them down to the couch. Okay. Just sort of like, I don't know, like a little threat, like I know where they live. Or I don't know if she's like that conniving. I think it was more sort of like, oh, master loves these and he might want them when he gets home. So I will bring them downstairs for him and just like, Put my mouth on them a little bit. It sounds so funny. She thankfully did not destroy any of them, but I walked in and saw them on the couch and like rushed over to like check them to make sure they were fine before I showed Miles. Leia says, or she thinks they're babies, she might think they're babies because Miles does sleep with them every night. They very much smell like him. Yeah. They are like and Miles, Evie is the opposite of this. This is not going to surprise anybody here. Evie loves to all things stuffed. She loves stuffies. She rotates through them. Like, there is a stuffy du jour for her. Miles has had the same two stuffed animals that he has been, that I've been his levies for his whole life. basically one of them I got him on a business trip when I worked for Vail when he was like one years old, not even. And then the other one was like, came along around the same time. There's a fox and a moose, foxy and Musa. And you can also tell, I feel like, how long stuffed animal has been in your rotation by how, like, uncreative the name is. Yeah. Because little kids,

you're like, what is this fox's name? And they're like, fox. And you're like, okay. Fox it is.

So we have Foxy and Musa. And that is who was Braddoncers last name. But they survived. All that to say,

Easter baskets. Easter baskets are hidden. What was Easter like at your

house when you were growing up? Oh, that's a good question. I grew up not as like churchy as you did,

but certainly we went to church. And my grandparents, my Nana and Papa, my mom's parents took us

to church every weekend. I think my parents were like, we're not taking the kids at church. And my grandparents were like, well, we will. And they were like, bet you can take them. And we had a sleepover at my grandparents' house every single Saturday night. And that was the deal. And then they would take us to church on Sunday. And so we for sure did Easter. The Easter bunny would leave our baskets outside the back door and would have like hidden all the eggs. So like we would leave the eggs outside the back door. The Easter bunny would hide them and then would leave our baskets back there. I think I maybe did that. I think the Easter bunny maybe put the baskets on the back door like the first year. But then the next one year it was really, really snowy. Like in early in the kids' lives, it was really, really snowy. And the Easter baskets got left inside. And then that just sort of like became the thing.

But yeah, well, when I was a kid, we would do like an egg hunt.

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