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 ☀️

Twigs decorated with eggs and fluffy chicks
Hot cross buns and kedgeree on Good Friday
Sunday roast and a cheesecake topped with mini eggs
A few eggs and Lindt bunnies, might hide them if the weather’s nice.

Decorations up, eatser hunt with clues and eggs with item of clothing.. Small gift

Covid has pretty much ruined Easter for me. I can only see one of my two DDs, as I can’t form a bubble with both. DD’s partner has been shielding and only had his first vaccine dose, so has asked me not to go to church in case I bring infection back with me.
Church would not be normal in any case - no hymn singing allowed, no egg rolling, no chocolates for the congregation, no coffee afterwards, and everyone masked and distanced.
So I am missing the Maundy Thursday communion, the solemn and moving Good Friday service, and the joy of the Easter Sunday celebration of the risen Christ, with all my favourite hymns.
At least I will see DD for the first time in six months, and we will have roast lamb, a walk round the local loch, and decorate the house with forsythia and daffodils (from my garden - we do not approve of stealing them from parks and depriving others of them!). And we will get each other chocolate eggs and have hot cross buns.

The kids get an Easter egg each, and usually some more off relatives.
That's about it really!
Don't do any special meal or anything.

Worship from Canterbury Cathedral via Youtube during Holy Week.
Walks as weather allows to admire blossom and spring flowers.
Fish on Good Friday.
No Easter eggs unhappily, DP is newly diagnosed diabetic post Covid so being careful.
Chicken dinner on Easter Day. FaceTime my family and call Dp’s sister.
And being so thankful DP is recovering. It was a bit touch and go at one point but he’s much better now. Hope everybody has a nice Easter.

Nothing.

We have lamb for lunch and do some sort of hunt, though my kids are teens and neither like eating the chocolate. Might suggest just the ine big egg each and skip the hunt...
No decorations except a few on the dining table.

I feel odd about Easter. This year feels sad as my mum would always do a lovely big leg of lamb. Sometimes a trad roast but usually with something to remind us children it was different - she'd often do a salad with lots of herbs for the 'bitter herbs' or she'd make flatbreads. Always hot cross buns. We never did decorating for easter.

When I was married, my ex-H fasted all through Lent, so Easter was really the proper deal. I liked that. DD is too little, but we're trying to think about what we eat.

I don't get the animus against decorating, though? Why not? A bit of fun and it's a lovely time of year for it. Much nicer that Christmas if you think about it.

Not a lot
For DH, who works in a food warehouse for one of the UK's major retailers, it's usually one of his busiest weeks at work.

DS is autistic and doesn't like to change his routine. So its just like a normal weekend for us.

Daffodils were DM’s flower, she always decorated the chapel with her own and sent them home with the children on Mothering Sunday.
I have a little enamel daffodil brooch from the Macmillan Trust that comes out every Easter....

Apart from that I have an ever-growing collection of bright patchwork eggs in a basket made from pattern.

No decorations or other plastic shite for landfill.

Mass on Thursday and Saturday night.

Good Friday planning nice fish meal (not fasting)

Sunday tonnes of chocolate for an elaborate egg hunt. Bought a nice rack of lamb and expensive wine.

Will try to see family within rules.

Nah I'm fine. I have mastered the skill of reading. I just don't give a shiny shit what she thinks.

Well, if you've mastered the skill of reading, how come you haven't grown up enough to realise that you can't just go and take things that aren't yours ?

Easter from kings is worth a watch on iplayer.

My council incidentally no longer fund any flower displays at all (they've all been filled in) due to people picking them and ruining displays. There were some charitable groups e.g learning disability the group/mental health team who did some planting but those got stolen as well. Nothing now for two years. Makes the area look bloody awful and shabby, especially now most places are shut - we are a popular place for tourists. Every year since it stopped people have complained. It's sad a few selfish people ruin it for everyone.

We normally make a big fuss, but then we've normally got a big house full. We decorate (I cut a huge branch off the mahnolia and hang lights and children's past decorated eggs on it, a 'happy Easter' banner that they made and a few little things like bunnies and a door wreath). Normally we do crafts and an egg hunt. Not sure if they'll want to do the crafts this year but definitely will want to do the hunt. Lunch is a big Christmas style meal but with roast lamb, sometimes in the garden with a long table on the lawn if the weather is lovely. We'll probably have just 6 of us this year.

No decorating, no cards.
But, vast amounts of cooking, lots of lovely things to eat, egg hunts and church services. And in non Covid times a huge family gathering.

I'm Catholic though so it is a big deal in our family. I had no idea until I was in my late teens that most people didn't treat it like another Christmas.

The Easter decorating is not a new commercial thing where we live. It’s been around for centuries. Eggs (real) get hard boiled and died different colours as prt of Easter meal and decoration. Real eggs get blown, died colours again or painted and those are hung up on branches as a symbol of new life. Obviously now days you can also get those eggs in plastic if you choose, but many do the eggs again each year, and many have hand decorated blown eggs from years that have been packed away each year.

The table is decorated with the coloured eggs, fresh flowers, candles, and often people have ‘fancy’ Easter crockery or their best China is out for the occasion.

We're RC ...
I'm doing a massive spring clean of ground floor this week
Decorating with daffodils and other spring bulbs
Decorating with a few decorations we've had since DC were small
Experimenting with hot cross bun recipe for Friday
Friday we are having cod pesto dish
Saturday every family member = socially distanced volunteering
Sunday long early dog walk followed by mass from Rome on TV followed by leg of lamb, new potatoes, mint sauce, peas, braised leeks and carrots vichy, lots of phone calls to family
Followed by lemon curd meringue thing
Also making a decorated carrot cake
Going to be trying to tidy up terrace and garden during the holidays

Easter eggs for kids
Easter egg hunt
Daffodils in vases
Few crafts
Small Easter 'tree' (branches in a pot) that the kids enjoy decorating
Nice lunch and a walk on Sunday.

Usually my mum would host us all on Easter Sunday but she died last year so I'm feeling a bit sad about it. She did lots of crafts with the children, bought them a small gift as well as an egg and they loved it. It was almost like Christmas without the pressure for her and she absolutely loved having her family all there together.

This year a local church have organised a trail of decorated windows for children to follow round the town and find so we've participated in that. There are about 30 houses in total.

The kids have absolutely loved it but it does look like Easter has vomited all over the front of my house. They can't do much this holiday so it was nice to have something to put together with them and they are looking forward to people finding our house on the trail!

We'll take them on their bikes to find the other houses so that will be something nice to do (and help with the chocolate intake!)

Normally, not much. We have chocolate eggs. This year I'm not working over the Easter weekend so DH is attempting to cook lamb (a meat he doesn't normally enjoy if anyone else cooks it) and a chicken and we are having our support bubble, parents in law, round for lunch on Easter Sunday. There is cake for pudding but not simnel cake. We are all unbelievers.

Easter egg hunt for DS. Hot cross buns for breakfast. That's it really. I don't like lamb so won't be having that and we aren't religious.

I used to take DD to the school egg hunt and buy eggs too.
We just buy Easter eggs now.
We always used to go abroad over Easter. Miss that alot.
This year we have a week off to do the flooring (lift planks, apply levelling compound, relay planks, fit skirting ugh) , replace some blown sealed units and change an upstairs carpet.

Yep we'd rather be in Turkey.

Happy Easter

My time at Easter was split between getting spoiled with chocolate at my mums house and my dad who didn’t see the point of having so much chocolate I won’t eat.

So instead he used to take us away for a night or two in the holidays. Usually somewhere cheap like Blackpool and we would just stay in a random hotel. He used to pick me up from my mums and just casually ask what do you want for tea? And then we would drive out for about an hour or two and he’d already have an overnight he bag packed and we would stay away for the weekend.

I remember those times much more than Easter egg hunts and treats, so I’ve vowed to do the same for our children. I can’t remember the last time I bought an Easter egg for them as harsh as it sounds but they get loads off their other families (we are blended) and their grandparents, they have had two already off family and it’s not even Easter yet.

In the meantime on Wednesday when they are both back home we will be telling them that we have booked two nights in a little lodge over Easter somewhere for some serious family time fun

Sainsbury's are selling Easter crackers! What a marketing ploy!