to prefer Easter...

[hobnobsaremyfavourite]

....as opposed to Christmas?
Nice long weekend with (hopefully) decent weather.
Apart from buying a few Easter eggs no huge present angst.
No fuss about seeing family.
Might do a nice roast on Sunday...might not.
All very chilled and lovely.

I prefer Easter because this is my favourite time of year; Spring! When all the flowers are coming out, and it's time to look forward to Summer.

My Easter won't be chilled though as I'm working all weekend!

I love Sprin too , my favourite time of year.
Sorry to hear you are working. I used to have to work over the easter break so very grateful to be having a nice long break this year.

I love Easter. Double bank holidays, the sun may well be out, lots of chocolate and it's my birthday on Saturday.

I'm the same. I don't really enjoy Christmas. It's at a depressing time of year. I get the best part of two weeks off work during miserable weather. We live too far from our families to just make an afternoon visit so have to book somewhere to stay.

I love spring and summer with the longer, lighter evenings and love the stress freeness of it all. We did our duty visit to the family last weekend so that it will be just the three of us at Easter.

We have a lovely family routine at easter. Easter bunny brings an egg and a present, eats half a carrot leave the rest on our lawn. Easter egg hunt at our local reserve. Meal. Real family day with no obligations to anyone else.

It is also the Church's most important featival.

Festival.

I wouldn't say I prefer it to Christmas but I certainly appreciate the fact you're not expected to buy anywhere near as much shit so it doesn't cost anywhere near as much and the fact it's 100% less stress. It's certainly a lot easier. But it's kind of boring isn't it? Compared to Christmas anyway. There's only a couple of films ever made based at Easter, barely any children's books, not really that much of a big deal made of the Easter bunny in this country at least, most people don't decorate for it (but we do have a tree ). It just doesn't have the same excitement, build up or cheer that Christmas has.

I try to make it as exciting as possible for the DC with the Easter tree, egg hunt, leaving something out for the Easter bunny, baking etc but it just doesn't have the same feeling. Having said that my DC all said they like Halloween the best and they get zero gifts for that so there you go . I don't remember the last time we had good weather at Easter though, it snowed two years ago ffs!

I love both festivals but I know what you mean.

At Easter, the days are lighter and longer, the weather is (generally!) better and there are daffodils and other spring flowers everywhere. Light makes everyone more cheerful!

Both festivals reflect the time of year and preceded the Christian interpretation: so we need a mid-winter celebration with lights, warmth and food to cheer us all up in the dead season and a spring one to celebrate the return of life in all it's forms.

The seasons are still very important to us.

*its forms

Easter means precisely chuff all to me, and I'm vaguely irritated by everything being shut on a day that doesn't mean anything to the vast majority of people in this country. I am very fond of springtime and the children need some time off school before the long summer term, but the heading of 'Easter' is quite irrelevant.

I love Easter, .

It signals new beginnings and I take comfort that things are going to get better if things have been shite previously.

Good weather, a nice turkey Sunday lunch, a pretty table and I'm happy!

I much prefer Easter to Christmas because I dread the two months after Christmas

Christmas itself is lovely but the cold and darkness of jan/feb make me feel horrible.

Easter is all new season, new life, new beginning with a glorious summer to come.

Easter is my favourite time of year.

Yanbu!

I do like Christmas too though. I think I like the change of seasons.

Oh and hot cross buns too as well as chocolate.
I just find it a more relaxing less pressured time of year.
And there will be another bank holiday weekend in a few weeks :)

YANBU. I adore it although I'm working every minute of it this year.

New flowers and things sprouting, birds busy nesting and gathering food, the feeling of spring and summer in the air.

I've never felt the need to do Easter cooking or baking per se, and I like the lack of pressure.

I'm off to look for chocolate hot cross buns! Any recommendations?

Yanbu, I love Easter too! I like Christmas but not the cold weather or stress it seems to cause. Never had a chocolate hot cross bun only, but just had a nice standard one from tesco.

I prefer it, too. Am an atheist, but since the kids are off school, I prefer the better weather that Spring brings.

I might do some baking this weekend. Dont get the chance very often but really fancy a lazy afternoon pottering.

I prefer Easter too, a nice long weekend, lighter nights and hopefully some time outdoors. I do like Christmas, but only the run up; by the time it's here, I'm fed up of it!

Long weekend, daffodils, lots of chocolate, family gathering, roast lamb, lots of wine, and Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

What's not to love!

I think it's a lovely time of year to have a baby too. The sound of the birds singing at dawn always reminds me of the weeks leading up to one of my DCs being born when I couldn't sleep. Love Spring and Easter time.

Totally agee with you. It feels a lot more relaxed than xmas and there is not this huge build up.

Springtulip - Me too! My son was born at the beginning of April and I remember sitting in a garden full of daffodils, waiting for his arrival. (Looking like a beached whale!)

Easter is much better than Christmas. Less stress and expense!