Easter Plans

Star · 03-11-2005, 06:21 AM

Easter right around the corner. What are you traditions and plans?

For us, like every other holiday, we get together with family on both sides.

At home, our tradition is to hide easter eggs all over the house so that the kids can find them. Of course Erika is too little to be doing that this year so Kassandra will get them all. I don't think she minds.

I also fill a huge basket full of chocolates and candies with a stuffed animal. I buy a gift also; could be a movie, clothes, cd... maybe this year I'll put in a gift card and the girls can just go and buy what they want.

We'll be eating turkey with all the trimmings and ham. Hopefully it's a nice day and we can be outside. Most years we can do that.

Merika · 03-11-2005, 09:50 AM

I have a bag of plastic eggs the kids still like hiding from each other. I always make them a basket of candy and we color about a dozen eggs which we end up giving to Alkali...since no one here eats them. Usually, my parents are back up in the mountains in their summer hone by then....so we generally just stay home and goof around.

It was much more fun when they were younger.

Duke · 03-11-2005, 11:32 AM

My daughter usually does her easter stuff at her moms house. All I do is buy her some chocolate here.

Star · 03-20-2005, 06:41 AM

we're going to be a busy bunch of bunnies come eater weekend. There might be a birthday party for my mother in law on friday, then we have my side's easter day with everyone at my brother's place (would've had it here but i just don't have the room for all the kids so I'm paying for all the food and using my brother's bigger house

), then on sunday we have hubby's side's easter day.

I can just imagine how my house if going to look on Monday! YIKES!! it becomes such a mess when all you're doing is getting ready and running out the door. I kind of hope that birthday party thing is called off.

Do you allow your kids to eat chocolate in the morning after they get their goodies?

My kids have always had a chocolate breakfast on easter. I never stopped them from eating any of it; on that day only! I figure, 1 day won't kill them. I do make them eat real food during the day. By the time it's night time, they're very sick of eating chocolate. LOL!

Duke · 03-20-2005, 06:44 AM

I never stop my daughter from indulging in goodies the day of whatever event it is. I've never made her eat breakfast prior to opening gifts on Christmas or picking snacks over breakfast/lunch on New Years. Days like these are meant for celebrating in one way or another so why stifle what your child wants to do? That's not my idea of celebrating, of course I'm likely no good parenting role model either I guess.

Star · 03-20-2005, 06:47 AM

I'm the same way when it comes to any holiday with the goodies and my kids. Of course this year, erika is too little to enjoy all that but she will get her first taste of it next year.

darkangelism · 03-20-2005, 10:16 PM

im going back to school that day

RandomSkater · 03-21-2005, 01:44 AM

I'm gonna help somebody move...

We don't celebrate most holidays do to religious stuff.

I don't really mind since I don't really like them anyway.

Duke · 03-21-2005, 12:46 PM

Do you celebrate Christmas?

RandomSkater · 03-22-2005, 02:48 AM

Not really.
Normally we go over to my grandparents house, but it's more of visitting the family then celebrating the holiday for us.

Duke · 03-22-2005, 02:50 AM

If you don't mind my asking, what do you eat for Christmas dinner? If you do mind then forget about it, I'm just curious is all.

Star · 03-22-2005, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by RandomSkater

We don't celebrate most holidays do to religious stuff.

If you don't mind me asking, what is your religion?

twinkle · 03-22-2005, 07:48 AM

It's a bit weird, Since I'm an Orthodox, I celebrate Easter in May. On the other hand, Catholic Easter is next week end, right???

Oh, well, I shall be in the middle of my exams by them.

Back home, everybody is baking cakes and other traditional food. We hardly ever eat chocolate for Easter, also we can make one of our cakes with chocolate. Mom prefers it with cheese, I prefere it with cream.

It's a huge deal - Easter. Even more than Christmas. Maybe a bit more than Christmas, due to the food specialities... I don't particularly enjoy them, but I remember years when mom would spend days in kitchen... thanks Lord she came to her senses right now.

It's a very private holiday and we don't have friends coming over, because basically there is no reason to celebrate. All kids go to church to take home "the light", and there's a beautiful messe given in open air if it's hot enough. I remember that every single year I would be dead tired by midnight and my feet would hurt terribly from standing up... It was a different type of holiday, a special one, non the least.

Merika, almost no one in my family eats eggs either - except for my father. HE'll eat almost anything, LOOL!!!

RandomSkater · 03-22-2005, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by star_64

If you don't mind me asking, what is your religion?

Bible believing christian.

The reason we don't celebrate most holidays is becuase most of them were originally pagan that the catholic church turned into non-pagan holidays to make them not so bad. This is also the same case with the wafer thing during communion(although I don't believe communion is wrong).

Star · 03-22-2005, 11:56 AM

hmm. i never knew that and i'm a catholic. wow! That's interesting.

The reason i asked was because my sister in law's x decided he wanted to be a jahova witness so now he doesn't celebrate anything including birthdays or anniversaries. When you said that you didn't celbrate any of these, I thought perhaps your religion would've been jahovah.