Guest guest Posted March 26, 2002 Report Share Posted March 26, 2002 We would get new dresses made by our grandmother (a wonderful seamstress) and usually the three girls were dressed alike even though we were different ages. We would get a hat, gloves, and a new purse to go with our outfit. Also new shoes. This tradition has not been passed down to my kids due to my lack of money at this time of year. One year I bought my son an Easter suit, he promptly broke his arm, and couldn't wear it! What a waste! The kids started to observe Lent several years ago , and they usually give up chocolate or " Big Gulps " so Easter has become a big gulp, chocolate day! :-) Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2002 Report Share Posted March 26, 2002 At Christmas and New Year's we had some interesting holiday traditions sent in. I'm just wondering if anyone does anything unique/special for the Easter holiday? We do the usual - color hard-boiled eggs with the kids, have an Easter " egg " hunt that is really more just candy hidden throughout the yard, and then have a huge meal and lie around all afternoon groaning about why we ate so much. I thought maybe there would be more hidden pickle ideas out there.... LOL. Do you all buy your kids Easter dresses? Go to sunrise service? Do anything special for the day? Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2002 Report Share Posted March 26, 2002 When we were kids, we would get a new dress for Easter. I was supposed to get outfits for my kids, but everyone has been sick with one thing or another the last few weeks. Maybe Thursday I'll be able to get something. Anyway, we're going to an egg hunt on Saturday, and we have Easter dinner of ham. This year will be at my in-laws. We try to do an every-other-year thing, since my parents live almost two hours away. We haven't colored eggs because no one eats them. Our church has a sunrise service arranged by the youth. My husband usually goes, but I haven't since we've had kids. Pattie accuscript wrote: > At Christmas and New Year's we had some interesting holiday traditions sent in. I'm just wondering if anyone does anything unique/special for the Easter holiday? We do the usual - color hard-boiled eggs with the kids, have an Easter " egg " hunt that is really more just candy hidden throughout the yard, and then have a huge meal and lie around all afternoon groaning about why we ate so much. I thought maybe there would be more hidden pickle ideas out there.... LOL. Do you all buy your kids Easter dresses? Go to sunrise service? Do anything special for the day? > > Chris > > > TO REMOVE YOURSELF FROM THIS MAILING LIST send a blank email to nmtc-unsubscribe > > PLEASE VISIT THE NMTC WEB SITE - http://go.to/nmtc > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2002 Report Share Posted March 26, 2002 The only thing different that we do is how the eggs are done. We will break just a very small hole in the tops of eggs in the week or so before Easter, rinse them out after using the contents, and set them aside. At Easter the eggs are dyed, filled with candy or some other such goodies, and a small patch of brightly colored cloth is glued over the hole to seal in the new contents. Quixote Easter traditions > At Christmas and New Year's we had some interesting holiday traditions sent in. I'm just wondering if anyone does anything unique/special for the Easter holiday? We do the usual - color hard-boiled eggs with the kids, have an Easter " egg " hunt that is really more just candy hidden throughout the yard, and then have a huge meal and lie around all afternoon groaning about why we ate so much. I thought maybe there would be more hidden pickle ideas out there.... LOL. Do you all buy your kids Easter dresses? Go to sunrise service? Do anything special for the day? > > Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2002 Report Share Posted March 26, 2002 Well, yes, but Easter is a Pagan holiday--named for Oestrus, goddess of fertility. And it's a lunar holiday. Why turn down a really good excuse to eat chocolate? At 01:53 PM 3/26/2002, Candlelight wrote: >Don't have an Easter tradition... I'm Wiccan. (: > >-C Valeria Truitt Medical Office Administration Instructor Craven Community College New Bern, North Carolina 28562 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2002 Report Share Posted March 26, 2002 My family growing up celebrated the secular side of Easter--coloring and hiding real eggs, baking a coconut cake with green coconut on top and jelly-bean " eggs " in the " basket " . The Easter bunny always brought a basket full of candy eggs, one big Chocolate egg for each kid with his/her name on it, and new clothes from the ground up. The clothes thing was probably because there is a BIG difference in winter clothes and summer clothes (we don't do spring and fall around here), and kids always outgrow last summer's clothes. The only thing I did different with my own children was to bake different kinds of cakes--egg shaped ones, bunny shaped ones, and so on. To this day, if my kids (ages 40 and 25) are at my house for Easter, they expect a basket with chocolate eggs. My church starts celebrating with Palm Sunday. The service last Sunday was the Easter cantata. There will be a sunrise service Sunday morning, which often is quite chilly, and then hot drinks and a snack at the church. We're sort of a low-key Protestant denomination. Valeria At 01:55 PM 3/26/2002, accuscript wrote: >At Christmas and New Year's we had some interesting holiday traditions >sent in. I'm just wondering if anyone does anything unique/special for >the Easter holiday? We do the usual - color hard-boiled eggs with the >kids, have an Easter " egg " hunt that is really more just candy hidden >throughout the yard, and then have a huge meal and lie around all >afternoon groaning about why we ate so much. I thought maybe there would >be more hidden pickle ideas out there.... LOL. Do you all buy your kids >Easter dresses? Go to sunrise service? Do anything special for the day? > >Chris Valeria Truitt Medical Office Administration Instructor Craven Community College New Bern, North Carolina 28562 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2002 Report Share Posted March 26, 2002 >Well, yes, but Easter is a Pagan holiday--named for Oestrus, goddess of >fertility. And it's a lunar holiday. Why turn down a really good excuse >to eat chocolate? I never turn down an opportunity to eat chocolate! (: Silly Christians, stealing all the good parts of Pagan holidays... decorating eggs, bunnies... <grin> -C More info: " You call it Easter, we call it Ostara " http://www.witchvox.com/holidays/ostara/ostarahistory.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2002 Report Share Posted March 28, 2002 Besides the sunrise service and singing our Easter Cantada in my church choir for the regular morning service, the Easter weekend celebration starts on Friday for my husband and me. He was raised at the Methodist Children's Home, and they have their annual alumni reunion Easter weekend. Friday night, they set up a fund raiser craft sale thingy at a hotel here in town (that offers special deals to out-of-towners who grew up at the home to stay there, who are back in town for this occasion), and people come and hand out and visit and buy stuff. They fill the whole hotel. It's a big business weekend for that particular hotel. They have an indoor swimming pool, a gym, a gameroom and just a nicely decorated area there near the pool with fountains and little water things (almost like a courtyard but you're indoors) and tables, chairs and benches to sit and visit, and I think you can even eat or have a drink there without having to go into their restaurant or to the bar if I remember correctly, and the kids love being able to swim so early in the year. Then Saturday, they have an auction (more fund raising for the home), and I believe they have a board meeting sometime during the day at this same hotel and discuss things they are planning, but meanwhile at the actual campus of the Methodist Children's Home, they also open up the rec room where you can play basketball or air hockey or pool, and they always have their yearly baseball game on campus between the alumni and the kids who currently live at the home. Sometimes they'll have a special thing like someone's birthday party who's worked there a long time with plenty of cake for everybody or a special dedication ceremony for a new building or pavilion they've built on campus. That night they have a dance and karaoke back at the hotel. Finally Sunday morning, they have the morning church service that even folks who don't go to church regularly usually attend because they were raised to go on Easter Sunday when they lived at the home. Immediately following the service, there's a free lunch in the cafeteria where the kiddos now at the home serve the alumni and their families who came back for the reunion weekend. My hubby really enjoys going back to see people he knew way back when. So I'll be joining him for everything except the Sunday service when I'll be singing at our regular church, but I'll rejoin him for the lunch afterward. ----Original Message Follows---- To: nmtc Subject: Easter traditions Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:55:34 -0500 At Christmas and New Year's we had some interesting holiday traditions sent in. I'm just wondering if anyone does anything unique/special for the Easter holiday? We do the usual - color hard-boiled eggs with the kids, have an Easter " egg " hunt that is really more just candy hidden throughout the yard, and then have a huge meal and lie around all afternoon groaning about why we ate so much. I thought maybe there would be more hidden pickle ideas out there.... LOL. Do you all buy your kids Easter dresses? Go to sunrise service? Do anything special for the day? Chris _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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