Easter

March 25, 2000

2nd try. Let me know if this doesn't come through. My niece sent me this. Happy "Keester" Jeanie

April 20, 2000

Thanks Aisha that is so cute. I am going to email it to some people. Kellie

Easter

LOL.... a friend sent me this pic - though you all might get a laugh. Love A.

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April 9, 2003

In a message dated 4/9/03 5:13:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time, lisa@...

writes:

>

> Ok should have specified abit better- do you give easter eggs for the

> kids on Easter Friday?? You know how Santa comes every year at Xmas

> eve?? Does the Bunny come every year on easter friday?? ( or you out the

> eggs out thurs nite for discovery on fri am...)

>

> I understood that the claender changes each year- and actually thought

> it was based on christian not roman calender

>

the Roman Catholic Easter is on the first Sunday after the first full moon of

spring (the vernal equinox), based on the GREGORIAN calendar.

Not the same however for Eastern Orthodox Easter, which is on April 27th this

year. The Orthodox religions used the JULIAN calendar.

for more info http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ortheast.html

- Becky

April 9, 2003

Sunday, April 20 is Easter day.... and that is the day the kids find their

Easter Baskets. When I was younger, the Easter Bunny came while we were

sleeping and left the basket outside our bedroom doors.

Now,as a Mother.....I have changed things....LOL. We like to go to Sunrise

Service and the LAST thing I need is for the kids to be getting full of candy

and playing with new toys. So, While the kids are buckling into the car,,, I

set the baskets outside their door for when we get home from church. The

Easter Bunny hides the eggs later at my Mom's house when we have our get

together and dinner.

April 9, 2003

Easter is always a Sunday, the friday before is Good Friday, with the belief

that Christ was crucified, dead and buried, on the third day, arose from the

dead. The third day is Easter Sunday, and a day of celebration. Easter

Sunday is when the eggs are hidden, and then discovered, and Easter baskets

are given, depending on family tradition the baskets may have just candy, or

other gifts as well. Our baskets always include some small gifts for the

girls, and we don't hide real eggs, but rather the plastic eggs that you can

put treats in. We used to put candy in all, now we put coins in some,

candy in some. Then it is off to church, dressed in pretty new spring

dresses. In my family, the traditional big Easter family meal has been

replaced with Easter brunch at one of the many local restaurants that really

put on a huge feast for this day.

Easter egg hunts are held throughout early spring, almost always before

Easter, but usually just within the couple of weeks before Easter. Egg

hunts tend to get turned into a type of party, with games and treats, and

sometimes a visit from the Easter Bunny.

At least this is how it is done in our area of the country. I am sure there

are differences all over.

Sharon

Mom to , (11, DS) and , (7)

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

Re: easter

> Ok should have specified abit better- do you give easter eggs for the

> kids on Easter Friday?? You know how Santa comes every year at Xmas

> eve?? Does the Bunny come every year on easter friday?? ( or you out the

> eggs out thurs nite for discovery on fri am...)

>

> I understood that the claender changes each year- and actually thought

> it was based on christian not roman calender

>

> Leis wrote:

>

> > what day does the easter bunny come??????????????????????

> >

>

> --

> Leis.... Aussie mum to 5 ,Natasha 1 and Jellybean due Oct 03

>

> An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience

is an adventure wrongly considered.

> G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

>

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messages to go to the sender of the message.

>

April 9, 2003

In this neck of the woods, the Easter Bunny comes on Sunday morning - baskets

go out empty Saturday evening then are filled up in the Am.

We have also been hidding eggs on Easter Day and leaving some money in the

eggs. we usually dye eggs a few days before just for fun.

Lately the Easter bunny has been bringing cds and videos- since amanda cant

have too much candy.

~ Mom to 12 DS and Diabetes Type 1 and 8 NY

April 9, 2003

There is a great story about a young boy with DS and what he learned in Sunday

School ... Easter Eggs were part of the story.

Does anyone have that saved that they can share with us?

Cheryl in VA

April 9, 2003

We do the egg decorating during the week. Go to bil girlfriend ' good

Friday. Easter Sunday kids get baskets.

Maureen

April 9, 2003

More Easter trivia:

Lent officially ends with the singing of the Gloria (which is not sung

during Lent) at the Thursday evening mass. before Easter.

Thursday evening mass, with washing of the feet, begins the Easter

Triduum, which continues through Easter Sunday evening.

The Easter Season begins with a mass which always begins after dark on

Holy Saturday evening called the Easter Vigil, and it ends 50 days later on

Pentecost Sunday.

The 40 days of Lent does not include Sundays or the days of the Triduum.

Bev, who besides being mom to Danny, 11, DS, is also church librarian and

occasional organist

Oh, yeah, the Easter bunny goes to work after we get home from church

Saturday night & the kids go to bed.

April 9, 2003

In a message dated 4/9/2003 4:52:49 PM US Mountain Standard Time,

cindysue@... writes:

> We eat dinner out - usually a nice buffet that has prime rib,

I wanna come!!!!!!

April 9, 2003

All four of my children get Easter baskets - I don't care if two are adults -

they are still my babies and will get one. I also get Tim some Reese Peanut

Butter Eggs (the larger size). Tim hides eggs and the kids find them (well now

just and Snoop).

I prefer Saturday evening mass (Easter Vigil) to Sunday morning mass. It's

much, much longer and more solemn and spiritual. It also the time that the

church welcomes new members through baptism, confirmation and first communion.

To me, Easter Services has always been a fashion show - and that is not what I

want out of church. That is my opinion

We eat dinner out - usually a nice buffet that has prime rib, ham, turkey and

lots of side dishes.

, who thinks maybe I did not give a basket last year and now feeling

pretty guilty!

April 10, 2003

I also get Tim some Reese Peanut Butter Eggs (the larger size). Tim hides

eggs and the kids find them (well now just and Snoop).

>

> , who thinks maybe I did not give a basket last year and now

feeling pretty guilty!

Mike gets the Cadbury Creme Eggs for Easter. loves them also,

says they are yucky!

Sharon

Mom to , (11, DS) and , (7)

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

April 10, 2003

In my local United Methodist Church, we have Maundy Thursday services on

Thursday night, recognizing the Last Supper, agony in the Garden, and the

arrest of Jesus. We have communion, and our minister performs the washing

of the feet ceremony.

On Good Friday, we have a Tennebrae service, recognizing the last hours of

Jesus. This is also called the " darkening " and is one of the most poignant,

spiritual, and just plain gut wrenching services we have. When the church

is placed in total darkness and silence at the end of the service, the

emotion is absolutely undescribable.

Easter Sunday of course is the day of celebration, and that is when the

Hallelujah Chorus is sung in our church.

We do the Easter Baskets before church, but no candy allowed until after

church. Now that the girls are a little older, they really don't mind

waiting.

I have always loved Easter. Along with the meaning in my faith, I think the

sense of a new start, along with the flowers, etc., has always captured my

heart. I have a friend who does not do New Year's resolutions in January,

she does her resolutions at Easter. And she rarely breaks those

resolutions. She told me she has always associated Easter with new

beginnings.

Sharon

Mom to , (11, DS) and , (7)

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

RE: easter

> More Easter trivia:

> Lent officially ends with the singing of the Gloria (which is not sung

> during Lent) at the Thursday evening mass. before Easter.

> Thursday evening mass, with washing of the feet, begins the Easter

> Triduum, which continues through Easter Sunday evening.

> The Easter Season begins with a mass which always begins after dark on

> Holy Saturday evening called the Easter Vigil, and it ends 50 days later

on

> Pentecost Sunday.

> The 40 days of Lent does not include Sundays or the days of the Triduum.

> Bev, who besides being mom to Danny, 11, DS, is also church librarian and

> occasional organist

> Oh, yeah, the Easter bunny goes to work after we get home from church

> Saturday night & the kids go to bed.

>

> Click reply to all for messages to go to the list. Just hit reply for

messages to go to the sender of the message.

>

April 10, 2003

As for me, Raisinets all the way!

Sharon

Mom to , (11, DS) and , (7)

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

Re: easter

Mike gets the Cadbury Creme Eggs for Easter. loves them also,

says they are yucky!

Sharon

Mom to , (11, DS) and , (7)

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

April 10, 2003

Hi,

We have pretty similiar services here. On Good Friday, we have drumming at

noon interspersed with scripture. It's very cool. In the evening, we

process with the cross and instruments around the neighborhood then have a

passion play which is usually very heavy and lamentful.

Easter morning, we do a small stations of the cross, everything still

Lent-like and dark, then the children process with the lillies and the church

is transformed into spring, etc.

I love to get Godiva in my basket!!!!

~ Mom to 12 DS and Diabetes Type 1 and 8 NY

April 10, 2003

loves the Cadbury Crème Eggs also!! Bridget goes for the pure

chocolate...chocolate kisses!!!

We also get malted milk eggs and Turtles (caramel with pecans covered in

chocolate shaped like a turtle).

mom to Bridget 10 ds

Re: easter

Mike gets the Cadbury Creme Eggs for Easter. loves them also,

says they are yucky!

Sharon

Mom to , (11, DS) and , (7)

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

April 10, 2003

Easter here for our family is this:

My dh, myself, and Jasmine get up on Easter Sunday morning and find that the

Easter Bunny has come during the night and left his goodies for us all. Then

we get all dressed and go to church. I made a dress for Jasmine this year.

It's been a few years since I have sown her anything so I wanted to do it

this year. By the time you have to sew a size 14 it's not really cheaper

than buying it ready made, but it's the thought that counts!

Our choir(of which I am a member) sings our Easter musical in place of the

morning preaching service. Then it's off to my sisters house for the holiday

gathering. All her husbands family comes over and brings pot luck. We

always have the same things to eat, except when I decide I'm tired of

bringing the same old thing and bring something different. Then everyone

fusses cause I didn't bring sweet potato casserole. I guess this year I'll

have to bring that and something strange! These are some real dyed in the

wool southern folks I'm talking about! You know the kind-if you ain't got

beans on the table it ain't dinner!

If the weather permits we will have an egg hunt while there. Then we all

just sit around and talk and visit.

Out church has an egg hunt for the community on the sat. before Easter

weekend. We have the hunts for different age groups, puppet ministry so they

get the gospel, and free hotdog, chips, and drink and dessert. It goes well.

Everyone in the church donates the eggs and candy. We all get together the

Thurs. night before and fill all the eggs with candy and a scripture verse.

It's fun!!!

That's our Easter. It's fun and my sister has finally realized that I am not

going to miss church on Easter Sunday morning to go to her house earlier. So

life goes pretty well.

Toni-mom to Jasmine-11-and still afraid of the Easter Bunny!

April 10, 2003