What do you do for easter?

[melusine 5]

nothing nothing nothing...

when is it anyway ? (damn that's bad !)

i just realised st patrick's day party was ... yesterday ! lol

I guess i wonder a little too much about my own little personnal drama's

Edited March 17, 2008 by melusine

[Amby 490]

COOL NESSA!

on "easter saturday" we all get together at our family's cabins it's a massive gathering about 120 people. they have mass (we have a church there), a big pot luck lunch with all sorts of different things since everyone brings something, the guys roast a whole pig and drink all night friday and we also have turkey, then we hide eggs in the fields for all of the kids. last year we hid 2500 eggs (I got so tired of hiding eggs I just started throwing them on the ground)!!!!!!!! not sure how many they filled with candy this year because one of my grandma's sisters is in charge of it this year. we all get a silver dollar too. someone always dresses up as the easter bunny and we also have a sylvester & tweety costume too. neil got to be the bunny last year we don't really do anything on easter sunday. i think this year I will make a big dinner and see how many people want to come over and eat with us.

Edited March 17, 2008 by Amber&Neil

[Nessa 23]

when is it? Sunday?

[terrie/kamal 0]

Kamal works sunday night. and we will be doing absolutly nothing during the day.

[*Maureen* 0]

how sad!!

éaster isn't coming this year

[Amby 490]

when is it? Sunday?

yup the 23rd

[wishbone 0]

Will be working on few things/parts to fix in the house, and also the egg hunt on Sunday, mom will be shopping tomorrow for chocolate eggs.

Edited March 18, 2008 by wishbone

[natty bumppo 297]

What does your family do for Easter? Do you have an egg hunt? Eat a big lunch or dinner? If so, what do you usually have? Just curious how everyone else celebrates since we're such a diverse group.

F ... like a rabbit ...

[Sinergy 3]

We do an Easter egg hunt, i make easter baskets for the kids, tho this year all Shonna wanted was some candy and a naruto manga, she sd "im 12, theres no easter bunny and i need to watch my weight anyway"...geez, what a snoot

I made hubby an easter basket too filled with his fav candy.

Ed wont be celebrating easter as he did in Romania, here in my house we dont EAT the Easter Bunny for lunch

Edited March 18, 2008 by Sinergy

[SnowyTater 0]

Don't do anything, my parents were never big on most holidays but I totally want to do easter baskets and egg hunts and stuff with my kids, try to get involved with the community and stuff too, seems like tons of fun. I love the little kids' outfits around easter time, just, aww And the pagan roots

My grandma's a bit senile so randomly a couple years ago started making big fixin's-supper on Easter Sunday. Only we've never done that before ever in my family, so she was upset when no one showed up but...she'd forgotten she didn't tell anyone, and she insists that we've always done it for the past 20 or 30 or 40 years. So that's sad I haven't gotten to make it home any years since she started doing that to eat her amazing food and she hasn't mentioned it this year, so it's always a guess on whether or not her brain will think she's meant to do it or what.

But omgoodness her food Sigh.

I DID get me a Russell Stovers yummy egg today Vanilla cream chocolate covered thingie, highly recommended, turned out amazing 2 for 88 cents at Rite-Aid!

[Scott & Lai 12]

We do the Easter triduum: Maundy Thursday service with communion, Good Friday service, and the Holy Saturday Easter Vigil. Then Easter Sunday we have the Festival Divine Service. I sing in the choir for all four services, and will be the cantor for Easter Sunday, including doing a Gregorian Chant piece. After the festival service, we have our congregation's traditional Easter Agape Feast, with roasted meats, food from around the world, and fine wines. We actually have our own "wine steward," who keeps wine for the feast in our pastor's cellar These four days are my favorite time of the whole year

Edited March 18, 2008 by Scott & Lai

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

In the Czech Republic we have lotsa Easter traditions. At Easter it´s spring actually starting after snowey winter and everything starts getting green and flowery and stuff. One of the traditions is: guys go out and get 8 willow branches and weave a special stick out of it and on Easter Monday they go out (lil ones with their Dads usually and big ones with friends) and visit the houses of the girls they know and the girls get whipped a lil with the willow stick as the guys say an Easter poem or something and then the girls give them something (like coloured hardboiled eggs, chocolate eggs, bunnies, decorated Easter eggs, colourful ribbons for their willow sticks, etc...big boys like to get some booze )...also adult males visit the women within their family and do similar things ...the purpose of the whipping is that the fresh young branches are supposed to give new energy to the women and if they get whipped with it they won´t dry out by the next Easter. (Ofcourse like everywhere these days some people get lazy and actually get the stuff you can buy at stores for the whipping, which is wooden forks, dry willow branches sticks - nothing fresh at all, plastic stick...I refuse to get whipped by any of those cuz first it hurts more, second according to me there´s no point in supporting lazy guys and ruining the traditions). So in Czech Rep. families and friends get to see each other at Easter a lot

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

On Good Friday, like every year, I go over to Mom's place and bake a trizillon Hot Cross Buns So that's more of an English tradition, I guess.

Since we have a Spanish background (Grandma is Catalan), we usually celebrate on Easter Monday rather than Easter Sunday - Grandma loves her paella, so I often make a giant paella with lots of sea food (prawn, mussels, fish, squid) plus chicken and sausages and on and on and on...This year I am making a lamb roast though - on a bed of rosemary, glazed with honey and seeded mustard.

Mom still makes basket full of choccies and eggs for me (that's more the German part of it), but she gave up on hiding the eggs for me (still upsets me LOL)

[Jason-Sasha 1]

You mean Easter is about the church?? I always thought it was about that alcoholic guy dressed as a deranged rabbit at the mall, giving away chocolate eggs.

[GabiandVi 34]

Easter is the most important day of the year for my husband's family. I've never been in his country for an Easter celebration because I can't get that time off work, but he has been there almost every Easter since we met.

They have something called a Revenant when the ancestors are called back from the dead to pray for the living. Their ancestors come back in elaborate costumes and dance around for hours chasing the children and praying for the elderly. The living give them money to dance, which they pass on to the drummers who play for them. It is a massive celebration that lasts several days in which much lamb is eaten and some alcohol is drunk. People who cannot afford to hold their own revenants or who do not follow that belief come to watch as do tourists. My husband hires someone to video tape the entire thing. He is too busy with the handling of certain aspects of it as he has a ceremonial duty in the celebration so he is unable to really watch very much of it while it happens. I've watched the tapes with him and they are very interesting (though they all seem like the same thing to me over and over again and I don't fully understand why he wants to watch them the 100th time.) There are literally hundreds of lookers-on, maybe thousands.

I've been to a Revenant before, but not at Easter.

My family hides Easter eggs and toquees them. (Pronounced toe-kay)That's when you have a battle over whose egg does not crack when you tap them end to end. We eat ham and potato salad. My extended family gets together and there are about 30 or so kids and about 30 or so adults.

Edited March 18, 2008 by GabiandVi