Easter Sunday as family event like Xmas day?

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When I was younger, we celebrated Easter very similar to Christmas Day with extended family members.

For various reasons now I don’t see it as any kind of special family day.
My kids are with their father. It’s a normal Sunday to me (Plus chocolate obviously).
Even if kids were here, it would still be a fairly normal Sunday

Am I alone in this ?

It's not about the Easter bunny but the anniversary of Resurrection of Jesus

For the Christian festival its about that, it also coincides with traditional spring celebrations (seasonal foods, depictions of eggs/baby animals/new life, early spring flowers). These celebrations are every bit as valuable as Christian ones.

@Ishoulddomore a bit bored tonight?

We just had a nice meal at home when I was a child in the 80/90s.

We try and see family especially as there are so many children- it's lovely for my children and my nieces/ nephews- if not a little stressful!

The Poles do both Easter and Christmas so well! I love the tradition of blessing the baskets of food and the colourful dried palm fronds on Palm Sunday

Isn't there also a custom on Bank holiday Monday for boys to sprinkle the girls with water, or is that another day?

What would we be celebrating?

It has never crossed my mind to do anything beyond give the kids Easter eggs. Maybe a bit of a hunt when really little.

It’s just a normal Sunday surely

It's a celebration in our home. I've baked several things and have already prepped the veg.
We'll go to mass in the morning and my dad is heading over for the day.

Might do a walk, or watch a film and we have a new game too.

We never really celebrated when we were growing up, but my parents weren't religious - mum is a lapsed catholic. It was a normal Sunday really.

It feels like Christmas for me, just way less stressful and warmer.

I have my family here, good excuse to get together and cook lamb

i reckon the entire 25 odd church goers in the UK are on this thread. It spins my mind to hear it - quaint really

I find this post interesting. We did nothing at easter - we were given eggs, v grateful for that, and then made to ration them for the two weeks worth of holiday (to begin with there was the 'wait until actual easter' thing but there must have been a year like this one where the weekend landed right at the end and my Mum couldn't handle us asking for 2 solid weeks, and from then I guess the rule changed!) and plenty of sonic 2 on the megadrive. No egg hunts. Probably decorated something at school, and there will have been a hundred smelly decorated eggs in boxes in the hall before we broke up. I had an easter bonnet one year as a kid, again for school. It was never a home occasion though, ever. No meal. I have found it weirder and weirder growing up, moving away a bit and realising that people do egg hunts?! and that apparently (I learned this year) you have lamb on Easter Sunday?! We learned all about Jesus at school, but other than the chocolate, there was nothing at home. My friend is cooking for us tomorrow and I'm delighted, but it'll be the first time I've ever had an easter gathering. I'm from the NE originally and I'm interested to know whether anyone else had an entirely uneventful childhood of Easters. (Though I had a hand decorated egg with my name on one year, that was very special.)

Yep😂

I’ve learnt about the lamb thing this very minute on the thread. Never heard of it before. Seems a bit weird really, like ‘yay, Spring, rebirth, babies’ ‘actually let’s munch on a baby sheep to celebrate.’

And I love meat.

It is quite an event for some people. It's become over-commercialised like many other things but Easter is lovely for those who like it. Six minutes to go......

@TeamMandrake I'm in Scotland and the schools in my area are off Easter Monday and back in on Tuesday

We usually have a big family get-together, with tea / cakes. A load of the family have fallen out recently about nothing 🙄so not this year. PLUS, it's getting a bit difficult to host all the generations of people in one place. Still doing an egg hunt for my littlies though, then celebrating with my family, brother's family and parents, by going to National Trust and then having a meal together. Have bought eggs for the adults, and bubbles for the children. Can't wait!

I thought the same!

I find I never know when pancake day or Easter actually are. I never know which day is properly Easter either, out of the Friday and the Sunday and is there some stuff the week before?? The dates change all the time. I don't know how I'm expected to keep up. 😆

Just a normal day for us. I’ve been eating eggs for weeks and we’re not church people. We have got family coming over, but they pop in most weekends, so unrelated to Easter. We’ll probably have a roast on Monday but, again, that’s not unusual. We’ll probably have lamb but that’s because I love it and haven’t had it for ages.

Another one here where Easter is a family event. In many ways prefer it to Christmas (which I also love) because there’s so much less pressure and not such a long/big build up.

We have family coming tomorrow, 17 of us. Hot & cold buffet, drinks, Easter egg hunt and just nice family gathering. Late mum used to do a big roast so we like to keep up the family tradition albeit different food arrangements.

We used to but the dc are adults and I don't have the stamina to have guests. We usually go to our ds and dil for occasions but they are on holiday.
We aren't religious so it is more of a celebration of spring.

We have a very small family and invited them but they have a prior commitment (randomly, someone they know is having a birthday party on Easter Sunday). So we’ll be alone - a bit sad but typical of our family really. We’re not the most social and don’t have tonnes of friends so it is what it is. We’re having an egg hunt in the morning and going out for lunch. So a special day for the children. Not everyone has close family to celebrate this stuff with and not everyone wants to spend their time with those they do have.

This is wild. Truly. I never knew people did meals, I swear. It's starting to give me the same feeling as Eid does, thinking about other people celebrating when I'm not. Not good or bad, just, huh, that's a thing people do.

I know this but only because I was sent to Sunday school (by atheist parents, no less 🤨) as a child.

You’ve got Maundy Thursday, which remembers the Last Supper. Good Friday, which is the day Jesus was crucified and the main event is Easter Sunday, which celebrates his resurrection.

I’ve never been sure when pancake day is or what it represents though. Clearly I wasn’t paying attention that Sunday!

As soon as giving something up was mentioned years ago my ears slammed shut. 😅

I think eating lamb is symbolic of the Lamb of God - the paschal lamb being a Jewish Passover sacrifice and Christ on the Cross being sacrificed for humanity

We tend to visit family. More because it’s a long weekend. Lots of chocolate and morning church too so kinda like Christmas!