Do You Do Much For Easter?

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Again I am letting magazines full of decorations, recipes etc for Easter get to me too much. I feel guilty that I don’t decorate the house. DD12 isn’t interested in crafts this year really & has said she doesn’t want an egg hunt. I have bought lamb for the Sunday but rump steaks rather than a joint as DD won’t eat it. She has asked for pick & mix instead of an egg. DH & I will have a big bar of chocolate each. I have the whole weekend off except working 4 hours on Easter Saturday. I doubt we’ll do much as DD spends a lot of time in her room. Hopefully we can persuade her to come out for a picnic & we’ll do a BBQ if the weather’s fine ☀️

An egg and spoon race in the lounge followed by a Easter egg hunt around the house. Usually do a nice meal about 2pm followed by a walk along the promenade. We don’t do all these decorations or multiple eggs.

Yes - although muted this year, for obvious reasons. Its the biggest feast of the Christian year, so above Christmas in terms of celebration, but less commercial.
Starts with Good Friday solemnity and fasting. Everything off from noon to three pm and usually go to Mass or drop off presents to elderly neighbours. Something simple and fish based for supper - usually crab cakes or fish pie.
Saturday I'll bake a Simnel cake with marzipan apostles and buy lots of lilies for the house.
Sunday we'll do Mass but can't do as usual this year. Normally it's an Easter bread breakfast before church then a big Sunday lunch with lots of guests and champagne, as many will have been abstaining over lent. Salmon pate, roast lamb and lots of vegetables including carrots aplenty, an egg hunt in the garden and puddings that include sweet poached eggs with a red sauce and hot cross bread and butter pudding.
Cheeses and Simnel cake for supper.

Easter Monday is traditionally a village walk on the Downs and then back to someone's house to eat a pot luck picnic with hot soup and more Easter eggs to search for.. Older folk wander down to eat. A few households usually stay on for a few drinks into the evening.

As kids it was Mass, eggs and a normal Sunday lunch. Catholic so a chocolate egg after Lent was the main focus!
We got one egg from our parents and if we were lucky another from grandparents. Although both my Nana's were much more likely to give us clothes.
As adults most years my siblings and I visit my parents, some for the whole weekend some just a night. Usually a scenic walk or other outside activity in the day and nice dinner with wine and games in the evening.
Eggs are now something partners buy us if we want them.
I really enjoy our non-Covid Easters as an adult as it's the only time in the year we spend all together for more than a few hours.
Christmas has to be shared with in-laws so it's a few years since my whole family spent it together.
The nice thing about Easter is the lack of pressure. No need to decorate, the meal is a roast not a feast and an extra day off work but with no prescription on what to spend it on.
Maybe you could try to create a low key Easter tradition with your daughter now she is past the age of making baskets and egg hunts?
Easter Saturday jigsaw day or new board/card game? Dance off? Something you will all enjoy that doesn't need special clothes, or much money or preparation.

We don't do anything in particular.

We'd usually see family at some stage over the long weekend (normally the day with the best weather) and we'd go to one of the big parks - Hampstead Heath is mid way for most of us.

I am planning a full on Christmas Dinner take two for Easter Sunday and I do this every year. We rarely have full roasts with all the trimmings so this is a huge treat!! There'll be lots of wine too.

One tradition we do have is that the kids get a gift (relatively inexpensive) as we don't do eggs and our DC have Nov / Jan birthdays so it's a very long time before they will next get any presents. It's usually just lego / playdoh etc.

Usually Easter is a nice time to be lazy and relax at home but we're all utterly fed up of that so we'll do a long canal walk one day and go to the big play park another day.

Decorating Easter trees is a big thing here. Most neighbours have done so in the last 1-2 weeks. It’s usually outside tree that’s twiggy.

I bake hot cross buns. Usually have boiled eggs for breakfast.

Lindt rabbit each. Kids have egg hunt ( but baby too young, and no guests this year so we won’t bother)

The nice thing about Easter is the lack of pressure. No need to decorate, the meal is a roast not a feast and an extra day off work but with no prescription on what to spend it on.

Good point.

Along with @allthecarrotcake and her family we pick flowers in the park and then go on an Easter egg hunt around our local Tesco where the kids pop as much as they can carry into their sweet little coats

dressinggownchic I had a smile at “ nicest” for “ nieces” 🙂

Roast lamb Easter dinner with all the trimmings
Easter lemon pavlova for pudding
Easter eggs for the kids

For the last few years (except last year) on Good Friday we go to a National Trust property and do the Easter trail and then home for a fish and chip supper.
Saturday bake cupcakes and decorate with mini eggs.
Easter Sunday we have Easter eggs and a roast for lunch - would usually have in laws over.

We don’t decorate the house but do get a couple of bunches of tulips. And this year we’ll plant DD’s sunflower.

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I heard a shout,
Oi! You! Get off my fucking daffodils!

@EggBobbin

Along with *@allthecarrotcake* and her family we pick flowers in the park and then go on an Easter egg hunt around our local Tesco where the kids pop as much as they can carry into their sweet little coats

How sweet - this year you could take little baskets so they can carry even more. Remember not to pay! The Easter Bunny will pick up the tab.

I think you’d better have another read of @EggBobbin’s post, @allthecarrotcake.

People decorate for Easter? I had no idea.

However, do you realise that companies send free stuff to magazines in the hope that they'll write about them and people will see them and buy them. Don't fall for it.

Any magazine these days is pretty much a book of adverts. Either it's an actual advert, or it's a feature about something the magazine was sent by a seller, so is an advert in any other name.

Easter is an egg each, a nice meal, maybe with extended family in normal times, a walk and/or picnic, BBQ or trip to the beach. Obviously church if you're Christian. That's it. House decorating and presents totally unnecessary. Just why?

I don't have decorations for Easter or Christmas. But I do send gifts. It's a way to celebrate, same as Christmas.

We just sit in bed eating Easter eggs for breakfast. I often work Easter Sunday but not this year. Only by chance I'm off that day.

When the kids were small we did Easter egg hunts for them. Otherwise it's just a normal Sunday.

We have a hot cross bun for breakfast,
Some sort of nice roast or a bbq for lunch/dinner
Do a small Easter egg hunt for DS (he’s 3)
He gets one bigger egg (not a huge one just a medium)

That’s it really.

We're Catholic so in normal years do a lot for Easter, palm Sunday Mass, when I was a child there was often a school organised Easter Egg hunt at some point, fast/fish on good Friday, Easter Mass, chocolate eggs, a roast, a colomba (Italian Easter cake shaped like a dove), and DM would decorate with flowers and an Easter twig with wooden decorations on.

(So happy we are allowed in gardens for Easter, my DM is even more excited than my DC for Easter)

We don’t decorate the house. Fish pie on Good Friday, Egg hunt, decorate boiled eggs for egg rolling and egg jarping competition on Easter Sunday. Normally a big family BBQ which won’t be happening this year.

When my DS was small we did some egg hunts which was cute. We had a really great weekend in London one year. But usually its eggs and lunch. Sometimes with the extended family and friends.

This year its eggs and a nice lunch with our bubble. That will do.

I enjoy our little Easter tree and putting a few fresh flowers about the house, it's a celebration of Spring for us as much as anything. No pressure. I decorate the dresser in the kitchen with a handful of bits and bobs collected in Austria There'll be fish for dinner on Good Friday, Easter eggs all round, egg hunt for the kids and a roast lamb dinner on Sunday.

We will have an Easter egg hunt, go to the national trust for a walk, visit my parents in their garden for a Easter egg hunt and cook a roast over the Easter weekend.