How does your Easter Sunday compare to your childhood Easter Sunday.

[Theteenagerera]

Easter has always felt like a bit of more relaxed Christmas for me.

My folks were not lavish or particularly imaginative at all when it came to special occasions but for some reason Easter Sunday always felt a bit magical and i look back on it fondly. There was of course a pile of eggs when we woke up, with the big one often having a note or a few pound coins taped to it. An egg that had been hard boiled and ready to decorate and we often got our white frilly socks to start the summer school term in and there would also be daffodils on the table

We didn’t get a new outfit (I know that was a popular choice) but we would get dressed up, often accompanied with wellies and we would go for a a big hilly walk clutching our painted eggs and have competitions to see who’s made it the furthest rolling back down without cracking.

Then it would be back for Sunday lunch, sometimes with added family and of course followed by Simnel cake for dessert.

I also remember family movies The railway children or similar and one year we did have a very small Easter egg hunt round the house with clues.

My own children are all now teenagers but Easter is still special to us all and unlike Christmas where I tend to go much bigger in thought and expense than my parents did I do my best to keep the simplistic fondness than I had for Easter Sunday.

There is still a pile of Easter Eggs to wake up, and I will decorate the dining room with a some flowers and some bunting that we have used every year since the DC were younger, even now we often do a Easter bonnet or egg decorating competition, we often have family staying and there will be bacon rolls, hot cross buns and pots of coffee flowing and it just always feel like a really lovely morning.

I partake in a few glasses of bubbles while DH cooks the lamb and the DC go on there egg hunt round the garden, (I hope they always want to do this) there will be a nicer bottle of red on the table which will be set with the posher table cloth and normally some silly bunny paper napkins I have picked up and we will enjoy Sunday lunch together before the really star of the day is brought out, DH’s famous Easter egg cheesecakes.

After dinner the fire will be lit and we will all sit together for a movie or game.

I wondered how everyone else’s Easter Day shaped up to the kind they grew up with.

Quite different now, It's not a big thing for me anymore. We would go to church when I was a child as my family were religious and we would always have a family lunch but nowadays it's just a normal Sunday.
I don't really have any family here now and DH's family are not remotely interested in Easter, my DD is back at uni so no motivation for a big Easter roast and I don't eat lamb anyway!
Today we are taking our dogs on a long walk in a new place. Fajitas for dinner and a movie.

An Easter egg on our tablet at breakfast. Church in the morning, then home to a turkey dinner with additional members of the extended family. We didn't have ALL the trimmings at Easter, but it was still a celebratory meal.

I had lots of aunts and uncles plus grandparents so loads of eggs. My children only have one aunt who doesn’t buy them.

We would normally go to my grans for the weekend and play with cousins. Mum would spend no time with us as was the norm.

I will do activities with the kids - a hunt , farm park and take them to church. Spread out over the weekend.

Mine is different as childhood ones were largely at one of my grandmothers, who died when I was a young adult. As my mum and dad belonged to different churches, the travel to church was different, as at home everyone could walk to church, whereas neither had a church where my grandmother lived.

I've got salmon for lunch, would never have had fish on Easter Sunday as a child.

As a child we got 1 Easter egg off our parents and that was it. We went to Church on Easter Sunday (as well as Good Friday). We had roast turkey dinner - the turkey having been I the freezer since Christmas.
When my DCs were young, we did an Easter egg hunt in the garden with friends and they certainly got more eggs, and additionally a book or clothes.
We nearly always have a roast on a Sunday so that is no different on Easter Sunday.

Same as every Sunday but an Easter egg being the difference. Going to Sunday school whilst my DM cooked lunch. My Dad in the pub, at work or sleeping because of a night shift. Arguing with my sister. No visitors, no visiting.

As a child in the 80s, it was just a case of getting chocolate eggs on Easter morning. Maybe visit family. Sunday roast. At school we might paint eggs and make Easter bonnets.

Now, I hide mini eggs around the garden for DC to hunt. They only get one big egg each, whereas we used to get lots off all the family. We will go for a nice walk and have Sunday roast. But that’s it. No family.

As a child it was usually like any other Sunday with chocolate and a gift.

When my partner became a vicar - it was in-laws and church services and a plastic smile on my face at the 5am service, the 10am service and the end of a busy week of services every day. Stretch it out Jesus!

Now with new partner, who is still in bed, I'm thinking about my tomato plants and watching the birds, and having some tablet that my neighbour made for me.

I won't be going to church, but that's another story.

As a kid I remember Easter eggs and a Sunday roast and visiting my grandparents.

Right now DH and DD are in bed and I’m enjoying some quiet time on MN. DD has Easter eggs from us, grandparents and my sisters. We decorated the lounge with a string of yellow bunting and some Easter chicks. 🐣

We’re having roast chicken later. And I’ve just made a nice pot of coffee for one! The sun is shining so I expect we will be out walking at the coast today. Nice to have another day off tomorrow too.

A 1960s childhood. Easter was a special time in our house even though we weren't a religious, church going family. DSis and I always had a new dress for Easter. On Easter morning we had a chocolate egg. Our eggs were always lovely, in baskets and decorated with flowers etc. I don't know where mum got them from but they weren't the usual Smarties, Chocolate Button eggs. I've tried to find similar but haven't been able to - they've disappeared along with boxes of chocolates with photographs on the front of the box.

Mum and dad painted eggs with faces and patterns and hid them in the garden so we'd go out and find those to have for breakfast. Lunch was always roast lamb, there was a freshly ironed table cloth and a flower arrangement on the table. My widowed grandma came to lunch and she'd bring us an Easter egg each.

Late afternoon we would go to a family party at my other grandma's or at the house of one of my aunts. More chocolate eggs. As it's a special day there would be salmon sandwiches as part of our tea.

Today there will be just DH and myself. We chose an Easter egg to share from one of the supermarkets but nothing as pretty as the chocolate eggs my mum used to buy. We are both vegetarian so no roast lamb for lunch and our flat is too small for a dining table so we eat off trays sitting on the sofa. Later it will still be just DH and I. I could visit my DSis but as I'll have a couple of glasses of wine with my lunch, I won't be driving later so will most likely stay at home falling asleep in front of the TV.

It's very different now to what it used to be. I do miss it.

As a child we went to church, came home and enjoyed a roast dinner. As an adult I work in retail so I'm in work fixing a store ready for a bank holiday tomorrow. My adult children work in hospitality so are working too. Makes me feel quite sad. But we do get to enjoy other days off together.

Similar but with an added Easter egg hunt. Lots of flopping around, eating chocolate and a roast, and maybe seeing some family.

Our Easters were exactly the same as any other Sunday, apart from the fact we were given a chocolate egg. In our house today is the same as every other Sunday, so in that respect nothing's changed from my childhood.

My parents are very religious, so it’s always been a big day for them. We’d go to church for Easter breakfast and then the service. At home, we’d have a roast that actually wasn’t chicken (50 Sundays a year it was roast chicken!), sometimes with extended family. We got loads of eggs, big family and friends of my parents would often give them too. My mum would sometimes freeze them to make them last most of the year 🤷‍♀️.
Now, it’s very low key. Both my kids are autistic and don’t enjoy big family gatherings, so we just saw my parents for a couple of hours yesterday (without the expectations of a meal), and having a quiet day today. We still all give each other eggs, even the adults, but that’s about it.

As a child of the 50’s Easter was very traditional, church with my mother (my dad refused to go), my grandparents would join us for roast lamb for dinner, an Easter egg (smarties or chocolate buttons), the afternoon was spent having to keep quiet so as not to disturb our grandfather.
All very boring and not that much different from every other Sunday.
We had Sunday school most Sunday afternoons too, didn’t dare not do as we were told, given no choice in whether we went.
I hated Sundays.

My family were never big on traditions or making those lasting nostalgia style memories around holidays.

When I was a child it was just waking up to a few Easter eggs and then normal Sunday lunch.

With my children we make it last a few days. I do Easter crafts/baking with them on the run up days, then yesterday we did an Easter egg hunt with the small eggs. Then today was the big Easter eggs from the Easter bunny, church and then roast lamb dinner with lemon meringue pie for dessert.

My grandad used to do an Easter egg hunt with small (mini egg sized) eggs in the garden. I have quite a few cousins so there was a crowd of us running around. I don’t remember if there was a special meal but there probably was. We never had the large hollow eggs, I used to want one but DM always said no.

I kept up the egg hunt with my DC, it lasted until they were early/mid teens because when they were a bit older I made it into a treasure hunt around the local area with clues on bits of paper.

They are older teens now, DD1 is away at uni and DD2 unwell with depression. I did give her a little basket of mini eggs which she threw across the room, then cried. We ended up having a nice talk so although it’s been an objectively shitty day I do have hope that next Easter will be better.

Wasn't a big thing growing up in the 80's / 90's and it isn't now.

My parents would always do something with us over the long weekend (usually seeing the sights in London - and this is something I do with the kids albeit not just at Easter). If the weather was nice we'd be "playing out" lots with friends. And we'd make chocolate Easter nests. No new clothes, no toys and eggs would be from aunt / grandparents

On the Sunday we'd have a "Christmas" roast (IE all the trimmings not just the bog standard roast), Easter eggs for dessert and a film in the evening. Which is exactly what we're doing at home today!!

I used to get an egg but my mum and dad would have a lie in after I'd been given it and I would watch TV/read. We'd have a family meal (not necessarily a roast). And that was it!
We did a mini egg-hunt for DS this morning but otherwise it's just a Sunday, except with no driving him to rugby training.
I don't really like Easter Sunday. Never have. I love Christmas though.

I think because by Sunday we had already been off for 2 days and been shopping/dog walking/seen family we were usually a bit out of ideas!

my Parents usually went away in our caravan every Easter so I got used to spending Easter Sunday on a remote caravan site. Usually had an egg and visited some stately home or other

when my kids were little i didn’t do much, maybe did an Easter egg hunt over the weekend, Sundays , a roast but that’s normal anyway. No church, my parents were atheist.

now my youngest is 14 and I now have grandkids Easter Sunday is still the same, I’ve just got back from an Easter fair at a local park with ds and family, it was rammed and I couldn’t wait to go home 😂. Got a roast on, teenagers are being their usual miserable self and eldest dgd is playing games on her tablet before she goes home in a bit.

Used to love Easter as a kid, we would get about a dozen eggs! Every relative would buy them for each other’s kids. We would scoff any chocolate eggs that had already been delivered all morning, have a roast dinner then go and visit family to collect more eggs along the way.
Today has involved a long walk, lovely roast dinner out and an afternoon nap. No eggs but very nice all the same.

Pretty similar to my 70s childhood. We used to get one Easter egg from our parents, nothing from anyone else and my mother cooked roast lamb.

Today, I cooked roast lamb for me, DH, almost 90 year old parents and the 20 yo DS who is still living here. I asked him if he wanted me to buy him an Easter egg and he declined.

So (apart from the lack of Easter egg for anyone) nothing much has changed in half a century.