Bunnies and Eggs?

Goodness, this has been a long week and I haven't written nearly enough. It seems like I had just gotten back to school when I was leaving for home again for the Easter Holidays. Not only that, but I have a big project due next week and I have been working on that endlessly it seems for the past few days. Oh well.

Speaking of Easter, I wonder where the Easter Bunny came from. I heard someone say recently that it is related to the pagan sign of fertility (as is the egg), but why do we have an Easter bunny that carries around a basket of eggs? That doesn't make much sense. Is there a children's story about the Easter Bunny? You know, something like the one about ol' Saint Nick. Of course, the story of St. Nick makes a lot more sense than an Easter bunny that likes to hide eggs. I don't know if anyone even could make a great story out of that. It seems kind of wrong, really. Easter is supposed to be about the Resurrection and new life. And yet, the eggs this Easter Bunny hides are unfertilized, boiled, painted, and eaten (sometimes). What kind of new life is that? And still, why on earth would a bunny have anything to do with eggs, or baskets, or candy. It doesn't make sense.