The Easter basket is an integral part of the popular Spring holiday.

Easter is a time to celebrate with friends and family, and a chance to enjoy the renewal that comes with the spring season.

Many of those delicious treats come courtesy of the Easter Bunny and the fun-filled baskets he brings. If you have children, you know how much they love this part of the Easter tradition. They wait up all night waiting for the Easter Bunny to arrive. The smallest Easter celebrants look forward to Easter morning with the same breathless anticipation as the Christmas holiday. You can make the Easter holiday even more special this year by buying your Easter baskets online and sending them to the people you love. It does not matter if your children and grandchildren live down the street or halfway across the country - you can send them a smile with just the click of a mouse.

Easter is all about family, and what better way to celebrate it than with a beautiful Easter basket?

We live in an interconnected world, but families are more scattered than ever before. You may remember family dinners as a child - and the family gathering for the annual feast of ham and all the trimmings. Now that the kids have moved away and the grand-kids are scattered around the country, you can recreate a little bit of that childhood magic by selecting the perfect Easter basket online and sending it to the people you care about.

When you send an Easter basket, you are sending joy from far away.

You may not be there to attend sunrise services on Easter morning or participate in the annual Easter egg hunt, but you can be there in spirit when you send an Easter basket full of candy, toys and other goodies. Of course Easter baskets are not just for kids, anymore. It does not matter how old we get - we still love nothing more than a delicious chocolate bunny or white chocolate cross on Easter morning. Whether your children have children of their own or not, sending them an Easter basket will be a wonderful surprise.

If your son or daughter is now a parent, sending them an online gift basket is a thoughtful thing to do. They will have endless fun comparing the contents of their online Easter baskets with the ones they bought their own kids. The whole family will have lots of fun sorting through the goodies and picking out their favorites, and the kids will be impressed by Grandma and Grandpa's generosity and creativity.

Even childless adults can enjoy the holiday more with an Easter basket on their kitchen table. When you send an online Easter basket, you are actually sending a hut - and a childhood memory. Unpacking that carefully selected Easter basket is sure to trigger happy family memories and remind your son or daughter of cherished times gone by. Whether you are buying an online Easter basket for a child, grandchild, niece, nephew or other loved one, you will actually be sending a piece of yourself and showing how much you care.