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#58 - 04/10/03 05:23 PM Easter traditions
Dotsie Offline
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Anyone like to share what traditions you share with your family during Holy Week and, or Easter?

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#59 - 04/12/03 05:07 AM Re: Easter traditions
countrygirl51 Offline
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Registered: 02/05/03
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Loc: Clifton, Ks. USA
In our family, we try to go to church as a family. We try to dress extra specially nice on Christmas and Easter. Then we like to have dinner together with Easter egg hunts featuring individually wrapped candies and plastic eggs with coins in them in the front yard. We also decorate hard boiled eggs with food coloring and bits of lace and other decorative items. The kids love doing this. The adults split up into teams, one team keeps the kids entertained inside and away from the windows and doors, and the other team is outside hiding the eggs. Then the kids are allowed outside. Some of the adults help the younger toddlers to find and pick up the eggs, and the older ones have a time limit to find their eggs, so they don't have an unfair advantage over the little ones. Sometimes we hide the eggs again with any leftover candy. One Easter, the kids were having so much fun just hunting for the eggs, that we rehid them 5 times! After the kids are finished hunting eggs, then the croquet or badminton sets come out of hiding for the adults and older children to play. Supper is usually leftovers and then everyone gives hugs before heading home.
Unfortunately, often the traditions are carried out without Becky or myself, if we are working.
One of my favorite things to do when Easter is being held at the family farm is to take some of the older children on a hike up to the old natural springs located on the bluffs behind our old family farm. The story I submitted to BAby Boomer Project is from one of those hikes that I took by myself. I find the top of the bluffs very refreshing, invigorating, and inspiring. The wind blowing and the grass swaying, the view from the hill where you can see for at least 10 miles across the river valley, all make me feel very alive and free.

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#60 - 04/14/03 02:50 PM Re: Easter traditions
Micki Offline
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Registered: 10/30/02
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Loc: Linthicum, MD
We have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, steamed shrimp on Good Friday and then fresh ham with all the fixings (just the same as Christmas and Thanksgiving--sauerkraut, corn, mashed potatoes, gravy, Waldorf salad, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, dressing) and I usually have fresh asparagus and fresh strawberries. Of course, we always HAD an Easter basket hunt when we were small, but now we do an Easter egg hunt for the kids. Every parent or grandparent brings a big egg with their chikld's name on it and either a special item or money inside and that child is the only one allowed to find that egg, but we hide about 300 small ones with pennies and candy in them and they (there are about 15 kids)hunt until we have them all (supposedly). I usually am greeted at the door for days by my Chesapeake Bay retrievers with eggs, but hey--they gotta have fun, too!!

Easter is kind of a mixed bag for me. My husband died three years ago this Saturday and so Easter week is pretty melancholy for me now.

Also, I can't do the whole Easter thing this time because of my elders that are ill, so it will be very small--just my Dad and I probably, as my husband's and my niece is doing his side of the family this time.

Hope you all have a great Easter....

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#61 - 04/14/03 04:30 PM Re: Easter traditions
Dotsie Offline
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Loc: Maryland
Easter will be different for me this year too. Easter was the holiday that Mom and Dad always had at their house with the entire clan.

Great food, lively company, and always an egg hunt. Dad would hide the eggs and each one was worth a different value when cashed in by Mom with her coin-bag/change purse. All the grand-children (some in early twenties still hunted). They also helped the younger ones find eggs too.

Because Mom was a woman of the Depression, she cared about how she spent her loot. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> Mom's adding up and giving out the cash was so much fun and always a laugh. The kids would try to rip her off, but there was no ripping Mom off! Boy do I miss her fun ways and how she horsed around with all of us. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" /> She was great with the grand-children because of her sense of humor.

One year I joked that a certain egg was worth a trip to Disney and my one nephew believed me. I felt horrible when my sister had to tell him I was kidding. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> He's been to Disney too many times to count anyway!

Mom died March 17, 2001. That Easter all of us went to my sister's house and had the hunt and a balloon ascension. Everyone wrote their mesages to Mom and folded them and put them in their balloons. We stood outside on a beautiful spring day and sent them to the heavens to be with Mom. Environmentalists wouldn't be happy with us, but it was such a meaningful event that we couldn't do without it.

This year Dad is taking off with one of my sisters to visit a grandchild in another state. The clan won't be getting together as a whole this year. Tradidtion will be broken, but life does go in and God remains good to us.

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