Dysfunction Junkies
Two high school besties reconnect and commiserate their stories as they navigate the dysfunctions of life from marriage, families, illness, death of childhood families, and creating healthy boundaries. Join them each week as Chrisy and Kerry share their stories and life lessons all with a zest of wit, humor, and love. They may not have seen it all, but they have seen enough!
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Jelly Beans and Jesus: Finding the Hidden Basket
Cold kielbasa: culinary delight or horrifying Easter tradition? Ever had to hunt for your ENTIRE Easter basket as a kid? Some families hide eggs, others hide the whole basket! Our latest episode explores childhood Easter memories both wholesome and hilarious.
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Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies Podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough.
DJ NICK:And now here are your hosts, Chrisy and Kerry.
Kerry:Hello Junkies, welcome back. I'm Kerry
Chrisy:and I'm Chrissy.
Kerry:Happy Easter everybody. Yes, happy, happy junkies. Welcome back, I'm Keri and I'm Chrissy. Happy Easter everybody. Yes, happy, happy, happy bunny. Happy Easter here comes.
Kerry:Peter Cottontail.
Chrisy:Well, he already came, yes he already came this weekend.
Kerry:Chrisy, how'd it go at your house?
Chrisy:Oh, just wonderful, I guess. Too much chocolate, too many jelly beans, pretty typical.
Kerry:What was your family traditions for Easter in your house growing up?
Chrisy:Well, you had to find a good dress. Yes, that was important to have a sort of a big deal. Well, for me, because I like dresses and you wanted one that really screamed spring, yes. So I always was on the lookout for something that had lovely flowers on it. Of course it was, you know, flattering.
Kerry:Yes.
Chrisy:As always. You would hope to find something like that, but the dress was always nice and anybody follows the old rules or some rules. I don't know if this is everybody else's rules, but you can't wear white. That's right Until.
Chrisy:Easter, and that was your go ahead to do that. And to be honest, really Easter was, especially when I was little, wonderful and probably even like into my late teens and early twenties, just like really almost as equal, if not equal to sort of like the preparation and happiness of Christmas Generally liked it, liked being with the family, liked the traditions of it, with coloring Easter eggs and the decorations and the family meal was always good. So yeah, I have quite a bit of a fond memory. Not as much drama for Easter either, correct.
Kerry:For whatever reason.
Chrisy:I guess maybe there's not as much a stake with Easter, not gifts in a Christmas tree, you just have a basket and candies usually.
Kerry:Less people. That's what it was in our household. We always had big, a lot of people at Thanksgiving, usually also at Christmas, but by Easter it was more just the immediate, intimate family. So you'd have as much extended family. So it was calmer, quieter and the fact that it was spring and you weren't stuck inside with the snow and everything that was also a good thing, that's actually a really good point.
Chrisy:I didn't think of that, but you could actually, as long as it was halfway decent, could sort of run away to the outer part of the world and not stay inside.
Kerry:And you know the dress thing was definitely a thing too, because you know, again, as I mentioned before, I didn't have a lot of money and so in our family that was the two times a year that we would go shopping for clothes. We would go shopping in late August for school clothes and or winter clothes, and then we would shop right around Easter to get a summer dress and or Easter dress. You know you might pick up some summer clothes. So that was always fun. It was always much funner to go shopping for the Easter dresses and summer clothes than it was for school clothes. But I remember the dress was a big thing and the white shoes, exactly. You weren't allowed to wear white shoes until after Easter and then you couldn't wear them past Labor Day.
Chrisy:Yeah, I understand that and people have made many running jokes and funny skits about not being allowed to wear white after Labor Day. Yes, but usually before, way before Labor Day, kind of got over the white thing.
Kerry:Yeah.
Chrisy:Because some are being a kid outside and just getting dirty. Yeah, probably didn't want to wear much white anyhow, yeah, so that was never a rule that really affected me.
Kerry:The one Easter that always stands out in my mind. I must have been in sixth grade, I think, so I don't know what's that put you at 11 or something 12.
Chrisy:11, 12. Yeah.
Kerry:That was the year I was allowed to start wearing pantyhose, because I remember, and it was also the year I was allowed to get a shoe with a heel, like it was always flats before then, but at that point I was considered like getting to be a teenager or getting to be a young woman, so I was allowed to wear pantyhose in a shoe with a heel and it, mind you, it was barely a heel, but it was a heel. It was lifted and I remember that Easter In fact I probably could find the picture of that where I was, you know, I had my dress on and I had my heels and my pantyhose. I was rocking it.
Chrisy:Yeah, I find that interesting because pantyhose is like a sin, now I know. And what kills me is especially when, okay so, in the summer and spring probably, and maybe some parts of fall, I can understand being able to wear a nice dress and some appropriate sandals. But in winter, when you want to wear a dress and to wear shoes without some sort of help with your feet, I can't stand the way a certain shoe some people just wear sandals in the winter Okay, I couldn't. I can't stand the way a certain shoe Some people just wear sandals in the winter Okay, I couldn't, I can't. So let your little toes out there. But yeah, pantyhose is interesting. How offensive it seems to have become, I hate pantyhose.
Chrisy:And you can age people, which makes me feel really horrible. Do you still wear pantyhose? No, well, no, you can't, my God. But you're saying you would if you could, in winter, when you want to wear a certain type of heel. I can't, no, but I don't. I don't. But I what's wrong?
Kerry:I mean pantyhose, I mean, you know I stopped wearing pantyhose probably by the time I don't know nylons, pantyhose, whatever you want to call them. Well, I tell you when you, when it was, it was when I moved out west. When I moved out west, so I would have just been about 28. That's when I stopped, because out west, first of all, everyone's tan all year round, so you don't need them, right. But even moving back here, no, no, no, no, no.
Chrisy:I don't have Crocs. That's a whole other that shoe I don't understand.
Kerry:There's fancy Crocs. I have a pair of Crocs that you probably wouldn't even know that they were Crocs, but they're like a shoe.
Chrisy:I need to see these because I need to be.
Kerry:There's like a ballerina shoe, almost like a little slip-on flat shoe Are your toes out?
Chrisy:No, do they have little puncture holes in them like Crocs do?
Kerry:No, I also have Croc clogs that are like a clog and it's actually got a liner in it, and I wear those in the wintertime, jesus.
Chrisy:I didn't know all this stuff existed with the Croc world. I love my Crocs. Okay, croc boots. Croc barn boots. I need you to help me learn. Crocs in the house, crocs outside Crocs. I need to be understanding this. I'm glad we've talked about this. Okay, show's over, we got. I gotta get to my croc education class. No, I'm glad Now I'm gonna be, and my daughter will probably love that because she's had her pair and you know, with kids especially.
Kerry:But I know.
Chrisy:I've seen everybody wearing these. It's not just kids, it's adults, it's everybody.
Kerry:I even have Jim, farm boy, jim, wearing Crocs when we go on vacation. He doesn't wear them any other time.
Chrisy:I was going to say I've never seen this. It's hard for me to imagine.
Kerry:When we go on vacation, we go to the Caribbean. He Crocs all the way. Well, because the sand doesn't, that wipes out easier, I gotcha.
Chrisy:Or, you know, just park your car really close to the ocean and wash your feet out in the ocean and then send your car off to sea like my father did. That solves that problem too. Forgot about that? I didn't.
Kerry:Easter baskets. Big question Easter baskets Did the. Easter bunny, hide your baskets, or did they just appear on the counter full?
Chrisy:No, they just appeared on the dining table or the kitchen table.
Kerry:You never had a search for your Easter basket.
Chrisy:No, this is a current phenomenon that I had to, not with the basket but with, like, finding eggs or something. Please understand that would have required effort on the part of my parents. No, I never, ever had to look, you're so true. Now I'm hoping that maybe it was because a little bit of laziness on their part. I hope they weren't thinking that I was just so goddamn stupid I wouldn't find anything. No, no, they knew I was smart. They knew you were smart.
Kerry:Yeah, right.
Chrisy:No, they just didn't want to do it. They didn't want to waste time with that. That would have taken time, good Lord, why you had to find your Easter basket.
Kerry:Amen. Every year I had to find the basket and to this day I still make my husband my 30-something-year-old son. If they happen to be around at Easter, everybody doesn't. Still, you have to find your Easter basket, the whole basket. The whole basket.
Chrisy:I could see looking for eggs, but Nope, whole basket, whole thing. Do you also have to find the stuff that's supposed to be in the basket?
Kerry:No, the basket's full. Oh, but it's got all the goodies and stuff in it. But you've got to find your basket. The whole thing is hidden.
Chrisy:And where are some of the favorite places? The Easter bunny hides your whole basket, the laundry machine, the dirty clothes hamper oh really, is there dirty clothes?
Kerry:everything's covered, everything's wrapped, everything's all wrapped. Yeah, it's wrapped in cellophane so that all the stuff doesn't fall out oh, there's another thing I never got you wrap your baskets in cellophane.
Chrisy:Somebody else took more time to do something that I never got.
Kerry:Yeah, the oven. Sometimes you had to go outside. It might be in the barn you never knew Might be under the rug. This sounds very time consuming. Yes, there have been many an Easter that it was late in the afternoon before one found their Easter basket.
Chrisy:Well, that would have just caused hostility on my part.
Kerry:I would have thought your parents would have liked it, because it would have kept you engaged for hours.
Chrisy:They knew I was engaged, unless they hid the TV. They knew that would have been a problem. But no, a basket. I've just been like look, someone watches program you let me know when the baskets are there. I'm not going to bother you.
Kerry:Were your Easter baskets just full of candy, or did they?
Chrisy:have toys, okay. So my husband and I have had this conversation many times because I have kids and the idea of what you get at Easter time has changed a little bit.
Chrisy:Mine, and I'm guessing for my husband too, it was mostly. It was candy, first and foremost. Candy, candy, candy. And then usually, when I was young, you got some sort of Easter themed stuffed animal oh, okay, little bunny or something fun like that, and then maybe like silly putty. Oh, I do remember getting silly putty a lot, Not Play-Doh, right, I didn't have Play-Doh when I was little.
Kerry:No, I didn't either.
Chrisy:But silly putty I did remember getting, and maybe my husband had mentioned, like coloring books or oh wow, a paddle ball. I always got a paddle ball. Oh, yeah, a paddle ball. The paddle ball, yes, very.
Kerry:Things like that, yeah, but Like that, yeah. No, ours was purely candy, all candy.
Chrisy:So not even the Silly Putty.
Kerry:I don't ever remember getting any kind of trinket toys or Cracker Jack toys or anything like that. No, it was all candy.
Chrisy:Pure candy.
Kerry:I got a puzzle a couple times. A puzzle, wow. But like nowadays, there's like big toys when you go to the stores and stuff oh, dj Nick's pointing at Chrissy Do you give big toys in your, in your Easter baskets for your kids? Our kids, yeah For your kids.
Chrisy:Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, they usually get, and I'm more than happy to share these. I have wonderful pictures. The other thing too, just to give credit to it, is you know, our Easter baskets were usually the kind that were just sort of purchased at the store. My sister who passed away was very crafty. I mean to say crafty is actually an insult to her.
Kerry:She was very talented at making.
Chrisy:She was a floral designer for years a photographer. She created many beautiful things, and the one thing she did for my kids that I hold dear and will never get rid of is she made their Easter baskets and they're beautiful. I'll be happy to share a picture of the basket she created and the material that she used to create these baskets. They don't make anymore.
Kerry:Really.
Chrisy:It's got a name and I can't remember the name of it. I forgot it may come to me. So those are very important to our family and those get displayed.
Kerry:But your baskets growing up were you didn't have like a basket, you just like it was, whatever was purchased at the store.
Chrisy:I think it was probably one of those more lower.
Kerry:You know something that was meant to not be kept okay, disposable type basket, yeah, right, so okay, yeah, I mean, you know, yeah, my dad wasn't gonna keep that stuff it had its purpose of holding candy and those little crappy toys in it, and then it was done. I still have my Easter basket from when I was a child.
Chrisy:Oh, you have the same one every year. Same one every year. Yeah, I still have it.
Kerry:And I'm wondering, if the material is. Is the material you were talking about that your sister used? Was it actually like a basket material, like a raft, tan or something? I'm trying to think of the name, but it was a cloth.
Chrisy:Well, actually the baskets were bunnies. She was able to take a basket and then create it appears to be a bunny sitting with his feet, and then it looks like his little paws are holding onto the thing and his head with the ears oh that's beautiful and I would normally buy the ribbon that would go around the bunny's neck. Yeah, and so each one of my kids has one. Uh has one specifically for them.
Kerry:Oh, that's great that each of your kids got one from her.
Chrisy:Yes, that's nice, it's, uh, she made some other things for the kids. Uh, my oldest, uh, there was a stuffed animal that my daughter liked very much that they didn't sell. It was from a show that my daughter watched frequently, but there was no stuffed animal of this, no stuffy for it.
Kerry:Not at the time, so she made one, and she made one oh how sweet and we still have that. That's cool.
Chrisy:These are things I will not ever part with. You think. Oh well, that doesn't say much, but no believe me that means a lot, and they are put different place than everything else Of course. So, yeah, no, that's amazing, you have the same basket.
Kerry:I still have the same basket and you still have it.
Chrisy:I still have it Now. See, you kept something. I did You're busted? You kept something.
Kerry:I don have a whole basement, though, which I have to give DJ Nick some credit, because DJ Nick's been doing some cleaning, and we were talking a few episodes ago about, you know, cleaning up and everything and we talked about this. So, yeah, I've noticed a big difference in the studio area today. So good job DJ Nick and good job Chrissy for letting him do it.
Chrisy:The only way I let him do it was I tried not to be anywhere around. Well, I'm proud of you. Good job. I did question what was in, and he's smart.
Kerry:He comes down here with black.
Chrisy:You can't see in the bag Black bags.
Kerry:They're black bags.
Chrisy:Good, smart move, and I'm like, and so then I start touching and then I try to stop myself, because then I'm like imagining what's in this bag? It's going gonna go walk away. I do, I'm, I'm getting better, well, good, so yeah, no, I don't have anything like that from my childhood, which I love hearing that you do, though I do, I do have.
Kerry:You know I do have some nostalgia, things like that that I've kept and everything. I just don't keep a lot of uh knickknacks. I guess you can say right, but there are some nostalgia things.
Kerry:Yes, and then my easter basket as a child is one. So yeah, Well, but I do still make, I still use it. And yeah, for Easter Jim had to find his basket. Oh, did you? I do, I make, he gets some. He acts like he. He acts like he doesn't like it and all annoyed and everything. But I know the little kid in him.
Chrisy:And if you didn't, do it, he'd be bothered probably, yeah, probably yeah no, nick and I never did the basket thing. It was. I don't know that we ever exchanged anything for Easter, just enjoyed the day together. Once we had kids, then it was about, you know, making their day for them. Yeah, no, and I do like decorating for Easter now. Granted, I don't do a lot outside. I think a couple years I did try to do the thing where you hang the eggs on the trees and you put like the inflatable bunnies out there.
Chrisy:But if you know anything, you had an inflatable bunny, a couple. Yeah, I used to, so the inflatables don't matter. Oh, ok, wait, when I say inflatable, yeah, these are like old school. This is. This predates these new inflatables.
Kerry:Oh, okay.
Chrisy:They're really actually when I say this.
Kerry:They're crappy compared to what they have now they're almost like a swimming pool blow up oh it's not with the constant air in the little machine and everything. Oh, no, no, no. You blow it up like a beach ball, basically, and then you have to tie it to something because it's going to float away.
Chrisy:It probably stands about, I don't know, like two, three feet at the most, yeah, and they come in colors.
Kerry:Chrissy, you're showing your height here, because you're tying two or three feet and you're putting your hand out at like a four-foot level.
Chrisy:Well, yeah, no, it's probably lower lower.
Kerry:But yeah, they smell like pool liner.
Chrisy:If anybody had a swimming pool you know a pool with a liner in it.
Kerry:Well, the weather is so unpredictable this time of year. So to put decorations out at this time of year you don't know what's going to happen to it, Because we have the wind. The wind is going to blow my way.
Chrisy:That's why I don't do anything. I have anxiety over it because I can hear the wind out there and I just imagine all the stuff just gone blown away.
Kerry:I know.
Chrisy:But inside, yes, I do have a lot of like little themed things that I put out that light up, that are pretty things and again with my sister who passed away, we enjoyed crafts together for most of my life with her. I appreciate that she gave me that and we would paint. I have a lovely statues and little eggs, ceramic type things that we painted and did together and those are also prized possessions of mine that I do put out at Easter.
Kerry:So it sounds like Easter was definitely less family dysfunction. You have a lot more good memories from all the times we've talked about holidays and family and stuff. This is the most I've seen where you have a real. You can see a smile on your face.
Chrisy:I don't remember a lot of drama for. Easter, I mean and I know I, because I'm not very religious, but we did go to Easter Sunday Mass.
Kerry:So I guess, we were one of those types who, all of a sudden, you were a poinsettia and a lily you only went to Christmas and Easter Well, just lily.
Chrisy:We're even really bad, and it was usually my sister who passed away and her husband belonged to a Catholic church that my brother-in-law had grown up in and was a member of for a long time. It's where they got married and actually my oldest daughter was baptized at that church because they were my daughter's godparents. So we would normally my mom and I, and then probably Nick even though we were not married, at that church the family went there, because my niece and nephew went there, so you would go to easter sunday.
Chrisy:Yes, on sunday, not the easter vigil I never even knew there was such a thing, but my husband helped introduce me to this mass, which, if anybody's making a point to go to this every year, are there people who actually that's the mass they want to go to?
Kerry:Oh, my mom. Every year she had to go because because you have to understand that it's not just a little Catholic education here and I'm probably going to mutilate it and my, my good Catholic sister will probably scold me after this episode for probably not getting it right. But Thursday, monday, thursday, holy Friday or Good Friday and Easter Vigil Saturday is really like one long mass, like it's not three different masses, it's all kind of part one, part two, part three.
Chrisy:Oh, no, we got the series, the installments again.
Kerry:Yes, the Saturday Mass is several hours long and so my mom would always want to go to that one and at the time when we were taking her to her parish you know, before she was living with us when she was still living at her house but couldn't drive it was always like a crapshoot on who was going to draw the short straw that would have to take her to that because it was so long. And the priest at that particular church, you know she really liked him and everything, but he's a little wordy so it made it extra long. So it was always like, oh, who drew the short straw? I had to go to that.
Chrisy:This long is hours long yeah that's the one, and only one, and only time I went to it and it's because my husband oh became catholic prior to us getting married oh, he was not catholic.
Kerry:Yeah, I mean it is sweet. Did you know what you were getting into when you went to that service? And it's going to be three hours long?
Chrisy:no, I, I never went again. And I and what's funny is, this is over 30,. What two 33 years ago? That this occurred and I still can't get over the hostility I feel about the length of that Mass. Probably that's when I said you know what? I probably don't ever have to go to church again. You're good for life. I filled my time in that one. That is just it's long.
Kerry:You know it's wonderful traditions and it's a lot. But I hear you, it can be a long mass. That's torture. There's nothing else I can say.
Chrisy:I'm sorry For somebody who has a hard time just sitting. You know, if you're strong in your faith and you love being, you know you're Catholic and you have that in your heart and that's wonderful and I know there are many people that is their thing Then I can understand why that has so much value to you.
Chrisy:I'm a horrible human being. Oh, chrissy, I don't have that kind of faith. I don't feel strongly about any religion. You wouldn't probably even sit through a movie that was three hours long. Of course I would. I saw Titanic.
Kerry:I saw Titanic in the theater eight times. Well, okay, I was trying to help you with that one.
Chrisy:No, I'm not looking for a pass because I, like I said, I scheduled my appointment in hell. So at this point, there's no, no, nothing to worry about. Um, but no, yeah, that's a tough mass. So at this point, there's nothing to worry about. But no, yeah, this is a tough mass. So what did you guys eat on?
Kerry:Easter.
Chrisy:Well, because we went to mass with my brother-in-law's family and their parish was. A lot of the parishes in our area maybe elsewhere again, I don't want to say it's just our area were built by neighborhoods and families of a specific ethnicity.
Chrisy:That were moved into those communities, so different sides of town. We had different churches that were, of course, open to anyone who wants to worship, but when you look at their history and traditions, a lot of them are based in different ethnic groups. So my brother-in-law was Croatian, so this was a Croatian Catholic church with a lot of Croatian families. So when we would go to mass there the day before Easter I believe maybe I'm wrong, I can't I don't think it was on Good Friday, but they would take their food that they were going to be eating for Easter Sunday and have it blessed.
Chrisy:So we would have breakfast at the lovely lady Millie, who used to babysit me for New Year's Eve, the one with the tinsel on the TV. No, no, that was my aunt's house.
Kerry:Oh sorry, yeah, no, Millie didn't obscure my view, pizza rolls, pizza rolls, yes, and Rudolph's shiny New Year.
Chrisy:We would have breakfast there with my brother-in-law's mother and his side of the family and we did that for a really long time and it was kibossy and what was great. Why is kibossy come up so much? Well, it just it was we got. And what was great about this kibossy? And I can't express to you how good it was and I can never duplicate how this, how she was able to do this. I don't know if it's a type of kibossy she bought, but it was generally cold. We ate it cold or it was room temperature. I what are you gagging about? It was really and I mean it was awesome. It was so good. And what kills me is it probably sat out. They probably never did anything once. It was blessed because it was blessed. Now it's got this whole thing on it. You can't alter, tamper with it. Nobody ever got sick, carrie, I swear to Nobody ever got sick.
Kerry:Carrie, I swear to God I literally have chills.
Chrisy:It was really good and I've tried to do it. I've bought kielbasa, I've made it, I've cooked it in the oven, baked it in the oven and then I've tried to let it sit out or put it in the fridge to get it cold. I still can't make it the way hers tasted. It was always good. My brother, if he listens, maybe he can help me out with that, but I'm gonna be the only one eating it because I you're passing out over here I'm literally sitting here holding his tongue.
Kerry:The guy next to me, he don't want to eat that crap I'm literally having a physical reaction to that. Like that literally just sent chills down my spine the, the hair, the sweat. Why is? So many opposed to the kibossy, it's so good I was just at a little bit of a gag response whenever you just said kibossy, but oh God, I can't even say it.
Chrisy:I can't go any further and say it was good.
Kerry:And then we had ham Did it have sauerkraut with it.
Chrisy:No, no, no, no, no. It was just. It stood alone With ham. We had ham, and we had ham, and then you had your hard-boiled eggs. I can't remember what other stuff we had. It was like it was just loading up on kielbasa, ham and hard-boiled eggs. Nobody would have heard of this afterwards. Everybody was rooting into it, probably after breakfast. I never thought of it.
Chrisy:We would go to my mom's then for dinner, my mom and dad's for our Easter dinner. It was ham again and generally kielbasa, but it was cooked and hot, warm or something, I guess. Do you see the hairs raising on my every time? I didn't realize this caused such a trauma thing and probably had some sort of potato dish, I think, maybe with her, maybe a salad. I'm having a hard time remembering all the oh no, I know what. We used to have a dish. We can talk again about it when we do another episode about family traditional foods that are specific to certain families. It was called felon. Don't ask me to spell it, don't know how to spell it. But basically it's like crust, a breading that you make. It has a specific recipe and then you fill it with like potatoes and peppers and onions and like Romana cheese and you bake it. It's really good and you cut it and you kind of eat it with your hand.
Kerry:You kind of cut it in like pieces and for the record, dj nick and I are both sitting here gagging and shaking our heads. It was, it was good it was good well, my brother-in-law their family.
Chrisy:They ate, I guess, what they call blood sausage, which I think is legitimately blood. I know I didn't eat that.
Kerry:I didn't eat that, but. But these are.
Chrisy:European traditions. It's more of the what would you call that, the more Slavic type areas of Europe. And you had the hard-boiled eggs, of course, and, oh, easter bread.
Kerry:Oh, easter bread, which is fantastic and that is one of the things that a lot of the churches in our area do. They will make that Easter bread and A lot of the churches in our area do they will make that Easter bread and you get the bread a couple of days before Easter and stuff they make it and then, yes, that's very good.
Chrisy:Some people have different types. My mother's was definitely the traditional type of like Italian Easter bread.
Kerry:Yeah.
Chrisy:And she used to have to do it with the yeast and it would have to rise and she would make it.
Kerry:And others are lighter. They're like, I want to say like an egg based, or something.
Chrisy:Ricotta. Is that what it is? I found this recipe, and probably a lot of people, but it's lighter, it's fluffier, it's not as heavy as the yeast. No, and you don't have to monkey around with the yeast thing and rising. This one that I make with the ricotta in it tastes just like my mom's.
Kerry:And you didn't save any leftovers for me when I was coming this week.
Chrisy:Probably in the freezer. Oh, you're in trouble now You're going to get fellow won and Easter bread Next year. Freezer, I'm not going to give you kibosh, you just throw it at me in horror.
Kerry:But yeah, so that's where the.
Chrisy:So you guys had, what did you have? Turkey, Turkey, that's your favorite. Well, I tell you kind of Previous episodes.
Kerry:we talked about our Christmas and Thanksgiving and Easter Turkey about our.
Chrisy:Christmas and Thanksgiving and Easter, turkey, yeah, and then, just so, the decorating. We didn't decorate.
Kerry:Nope, didn't decorate Barely, but we didn't search for things. We didn't have an Easter egg hunt, yeah, we didn't have an Easter egg hunt because we hunt for our basket, for our basket, and the eggs would be eggs that we dyed, were already in the basket, so they were in the basket.
Chrisy:That was hidden. The Easter egg thing is a control issue for me and it's tough. Now with the kids I've gotten better, but you really, I always wanted to be specific to making sure that they were perfect, like I didn't want them to sit once. You dye them. Sometimes you put them somewhere to dry, oh, and they get that weird ring.
Kerry:I didn't want that.
Chrisy:So I really like making sure the eggs were perfect. Yeah, dressing nice, having a nice meal, maybe going to church eating the food that was blessed, and kiboshy that's cold, and and specific movies.
Kerry:I equate I connect with easter I can't believe it's taken this long for you to bring the movie well, I'll make it quick, because I don't want to keep everybody over easter long, but because everybody's like probably had enough of it since we're a little bit past it.
Chrisy:But great family time and you're looking forward to spring. I think it's a lovely time for family and and stuff. Jesus nazareth, of course. I mean. I'm sorry I already mentioned that once, but even for us non-heavy religious people, I mean good movie, and it's got to be the one from 1977, uh, and it's got to be the uh, what's his name? Fel Fellini. Who did that one? No, zeffirelli, zeffirelli.
Kerry:Zeffirelli, zeffirelli.
Chrisy:Jesus of Nazareth with Robert Powell Definite. For some reason I always watch Sound of Music at Easter.
Kerry:Yeah, because that was back in the day, whenever it would only come on once a year, and that's when they played it around.
Chrisy:Easter yeah.
Kerry:Kind was like around christmas. Yeah, it was, it was in that weird period, yeah it was, and then sometimes it would be right before christmas, yeah, but sound of music definitely. Yeah, please watch that one.
Chrisy:And then there was a couple of the stop action animation ones like rudolph and everything, but they were easter ones and it was here comes peter, here comes peter, cottontail, right, nick, I don't know. And the easter bunny is coming to town. Out of those two, everyone I recommend, the easter bunny is coming to town, it's better. I hated the other one. I know it was casey casem as peter cottontail.
Chrisy:And then you had vinnie price, mr vincent price, the freaky guy doing iron tail and that freaked me out all the time and his and I just remember like I would be freaked out that my eggs would turn that color because he was trying to give people those horrible like they look like army green eggs. He was trying to hand those out at Easter.
Kerry:Never saw it.
Chrisy:I guess, even though it's after Easter, I never saw it. You need to sit down and YouTube it and sit and watch it. Okay, yeah, all right, I'll try to find it. I can't believe you didn't watch these. Okay, you didn't watch the. You watched some of the Christmas stuff, I'm sure.
Kerry:Yeah, a little bit, but no, no, sound of Music was probably about it. Sound of Music, yeah. And then there was just a Disney movie.
Chrisy:For some reason I don't know why I watched it, but it was fun. It was called the Ugly Dachshund and it was a Disney movie with Dean Jones and it was on TV, or did you?
Kerry:go to a movie theater.
Chrisy:No, this would have been a later phenomenon for me. As an adult, I had access to be able to watch this, and they must have played it on the Disney Channel a lot at spring.
Kerry:That would have been way not available to me.
Chrisy:Suzanne Plachette was in it and they had dachshunds. She was crazy about her dachshunds and the husband never got a manly dog and this puppy was basically turned away by his mother when he was born.
Kerry:Was this a cartoon or like a people?
Chrisy:No, it's a regular movie like a Disney movie and the vet talked him into taking on this puppy because the mother didn't want it and it needed to be nourished. And the dachshund just had puppies and had plenty of milk.
Kerry:And it's called the ugly dachshund.
Chrisy:Yeah, he sneaks this dog in with the other dachshunds but here it's a great day, so he cheesed. He like lies to his wife that it's the dog. Had another puppy and she's like it looks funny, it don't look like the other puppies. What the hell's wrong with this dog? And then you know, of course, like in two weeks a dog's like 100 pounds um, but, and not near as long as a dog, yeah, but no, it's, it's a good. If you like those kind of fun nostalgic movies, I recommend it.
Kerry:I feel like one other movie that came out I want to say it was usually in the spring was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Chrisy:Yeah, I know, that's a Dick Van Dyke vehicle, that one.
Kerry:I do remember and that was a lot of good memories. Yeah, I didn't watch that one.
Chrisy:I don't know why. Maybe something about it annoyed me. I don't want to watch that the car, oh wow. So but yeah, love Easter, love Saturday. I like when Easter runs a little late, like it did this year.
Kerry:Yes.
Chrisy:When we get those Easters in March it really throws you off.
Kerry:It does. No, I'm glad that it's late this year too, because May is just around the corner. It's summer.
Chrisy:Yeah, you don't have to wait much longer for the warmer temperatures. Thank, God. I know. So I wonder what everybody else's Easter traditions were. I know, did they eat cold kielbasa and make Carrie yak?
Kerry:Every time you say that, literally chills.
Chrisy:Yes, but I was eating hot dogs and ice cream, so cold kielbasa was no problem If anything, it was a step up. That's true, that's true.
Kerry:What I want to know is what kind of candy you wanted in your Easter basket. That's what I want to know.
Chrisy:And then it was a company that was not a sponsor. Yeah, got a lot of Gorons. Oh yeah, yes, yes, yes and what are those little?
Kerry:they're tiny little chocolate balls. They're real little sixlets Sixlets, I think they're called and they come in like a sleeve, like a little tube, like a little sleeve and there was different colors and they were chocolate, that they had different colors, but that was always my favorite to get at Easter. I think they were called Sixlets, but I'll have to look it up. Look it up, yeah.
Chrisy:But, anyway.
Kerry:so yes, on our Facebook page we are going to post pictures of Chrissy's cute Christmas or Easter baskets from her sister. Yes, and I want to see what kind of candy everybody wanted in there. Are you a white chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate?
Chrisy:Well, I milk but Do you like white chocolate? No, but we'll eat it when presented with that you won't say no to it.
Kerry:I won't say no.
Chrisy:No, if I'm going to eat cold kielbasa white chocolate, all you got in there.
Kerry:OK, I love white chocolate yeah.
Chrisy:I mean it's, I don't mind it, but it's different than definitely, but we'll also post pictures of how I've overdone it for my children over the years, because I always take a picture, just like I do when Santa's come. Yeah, I always take a picture of when the Easter Bunny picture of when the Easter Bunny's been there.
Kerry:So we'll have to see this year's pictures. Yeah, yes, it's Christmas light in our house. Yeah, christmas light. It's very Christmas With a pastel theme yes, spring happiness.
Chrisy:Oh, one other thing real quick. I know we're getting long, but what is up with the Easter Bunny at the mall?
Kerry:Do you ever notice? Why does?
Chrisy:the Easter Bunny have to have an enormous head.
Kerry:Yeah, I don head. Yeah, I don't know that freaks me out. I have the eyes on those. Things always freak me out.
Chrisy:They're always. Yeah, if the kids were afraid of sitting on santa's lap, I I mean, I we used to take our kids at the mall for the pictures. But yeah, the easter bunny, that's a hard sell how do you? Explain that to your kids. Santa seems more understandable, but you've got this human size oversized bunny with an enormous head, heart, yeah and it's just yeah, because they're in a huge mat, it doesn't? It's scary. Yeah, it's a little scary.
Kerry:Yeah, I avoid those kids go and you get pictures and you get the picture of the kids screaming yeah, I mean trauma dysfunction there it is, you just caused some stress there.
Kerry:But okay, alrighty, everybody well, some stress there, but okay, alrighty, everybody. Well, we hope everyone had a wonderful Easter and that you have a great spring break, and we'll be back at you next week. But in the meantime, please make sure to hit that subscribe or follow button on however you are listening to us, whether it's Apple iTunes or if it's Amazon or YouTube or iHeartRadio, spotify and then also give us a rating. We hope you're enjoying our show. We would love any of those five-star reviews. Find us on Facebook, hit us up with your comments and we will be back with you next week.
Chrisy:Bye, everybody. Happy belated Easter. Belated Easter, yes. Bye-bye, thank you.
