Hope I don't offend anyone by interjecting a little bit of humor into this. Easter more often than not falls in the middle of the Passover season. Although our family has never kept a kosher house, we traditionally stick closer to the rules at this time of year -- mostly out of tradition. My kids loved the passover treats my mother made for them. They also loved the Easter Candy noth grandmother's gave them every year.

It was hard to convince my m-i-l in a nice way not to serve ham to us durimg Passover, but I thought I'd finally got through to her. Until one year when I came down to her kitchen and could smell the bacon frying. She was beaming as she set it on the table beside the matzo she had bought especially for us. I gave her a big hug, then ran up to warn my kids not to say a word and that it was fine to eat the bacon. It's a wonderful memory that they still treasure.

Family holiday celebrations can be and should be anything that brings us closer together.