What to do Easter Sunday?

[georgethegeranium456]

My narc mother has just told me that she won't be spending Easter Sunday with us as she is going away to visit her golden child (a blessing in disguise really, but she has been banging on about it for ages now so despite feeling relieved that I won't have to endure a day with her, I now feel let down, that that makes sense!).

All my friends etc have their own family stuff on, don't really want to ask anyone if we can join as would feel like a total charity case, and we have no other family (dd's dad is long gone). So it will just be me and dd (5). She's really excited about Easter, so feel really bad for her that it is just going to be us!

Any ideas about what I can do, aside from an Easter egg hunt in the garden. Lunch? Can't really be doing a roast just for us (and the dog!), would it be really sad to book Pizza Express or something for lunch?

Are there any Easter special cinema showings?
A trip to the seaside ? A walk in a local park where the daffodils have come out?
A trip to a farm to see the spring lambs ?

Not at all sad! I would have an egg hunt in the morning followed by hot cross buns/party food lunch then go somewhere like the cinema, bowling or a trampoline park in the afternoon before going out for dinner. Please don't think everyone will be doing amazing magical things they really won't be! I am a lone parent and usually we wake up, have an egg hunt, breakfast then it just becomes a normal Sunday with more chocolate! The day is only a big deal if you build it up to be one!

No won’t be sad sounds like a good idea! I waS going to cook a roast as I have 4 children wouldn’t do it just for one. Is there any local Easter things going on near you? I’ve seen a few Easter things advertised where we are.

Church? Nice spring flowers, songs, a reminder of what Easter is about, probably a children's talk. Especially if DD is excited about Easter. Don't knock it till you've tried it. You'd be welcome at ours whether you believe or not ( we can't tell!)

I think a day together sounds lovely! We never do anything special for Easter.

Can you see if anywhere local has an egg hunt on? National trust used to do them for kids.

Going out for pizza sounds a perfect treat too!

can you have a day trip to the seaside or a local small town that might have a new playground etc?

if staying home then maybe some Easter baking? Or craft?

You will definitely have a better day without your mum.

How about going to church in the morning ? Most churches will be having something for children like an egg hunt at the end of the service and easter dunday always has a lovely celebratory feel.
Then home for an egg hunt?

Then have whatever you want for lunch but make it special. Set the table with all your best stuff, get dd involved.

If the weather is goid, a nce trip to the park afterwards and then home to watch a cosy film while munching chocolate?

National trust egg hunt.

Carvery or pizza after.

Easter film with chocolate eggs to eat in the evening 😋

I don't know where you are but the weather looks beautiful on Sunday. A special breakfast, Easter egg hunt then a drive out to a lovely big park with a picnic? Find an ice cream place nearby?

Lots of lovely suggestions but please don’t hesitate to ask a good friend if you could join them- I’d genuinely welcome anyone of my friends to join us and would be so sad if they couldn’t ask. Two more around a table would be no problem especially if you offered to contribute x

I’m not a lone parent but only have my sister as extended family (my husbands family aren’t in the U.K.), and to we see my sister and her family all the time. Easter and Christmas etc can make you feel really shit if you don’t have extended family and a big house to host in. I’m taking my LOs off to a kids farm with softplay and playgrounds and Easter events to make the day special.

I loved taking mine for an NT Easter egg hunt obviously they loved it too esp as they'd have egg and spoon races and face painting quite often there too

I think you and your DD could have a lovely day together, don't put too much pressure on yourself, she's 5!

What @petitdonkey said. If we were at home on Easter Sunday we'd always welcome friends to join us - just as easy to cook for 6 as 4 if we're doing a roast.

Thanks for all the lovely suggestions! I don't feel so bad now, it is after all, just another day, with more chocolate! Think we will go for a nice long dog walk after an Easter egg hunt, then go somewhere for lunch, and do a movie afternoon 😊

As a child, a couple of days before Easter, I would be given a cardboard box from the supermarket and paint, tissue paper etc and made an Easter basket for the Easter bunny to deliver my egg to. Cheap, fun and time consuming for a child of that age.

I do a roast for me and my 3 year old and enjoy it. No reason you can't just because it's only the two of you. Just do something super simple. :-) Always nice to have company too, but please don't think there's no point in doing one just because it's only two of you! You can use the left over meat for meals during the week or freeze it. Hope you have a good day, I'm also finding the weekend a bit difficult, imagining all the families having fun together. It's not always the reality though xx

This time tomorrow I bet you will be thinking that yiu have had a lovely day without your pain if a mother. The weather looks promising so i would be tempted to get out in nature. Take a packed lunch,have an ice cream and chill. Bet your daughter will love being with u

I did a roast today for myself and my 16 year old. Though, teenage boy means we got through a three person roast and a four person pile of roasties. When he was smaller we'd have enough for two nights.

Just set alarm for Easter egg hunt setting up, she's insistent it has to be in the garden and too tired to do it tonight, plus I don't trust the foxes round here! Set her other Easter eggs up tonight, next to the Easter 'tree' aka branch hacked off from a bush in the garden that she decorated with plastics eggs etc, although blossom petals everywhere and spiders now roaming free in the living room!
Got stuff in for a (cheat's) roast. Have also promised her I'll paint her nails, and we will go to the park. And then take dog somewhere different for a run. Had a look on Prime and I think she'll enjoy watching Hop (plus James Marsden for me 😉)
Hoping it will be nice to have a day just us. And you are right, at least I won't be on tenterhooks with my horrible mother safely out of the picture!
Hope you all have a lovely day tomorrow! It's just another day after all... 🐰

That sounds lovely. I'm doing a roast for me and two kids, 9 and 11! I just do it air fryer style!

I used to not bother and then realised there is no reason not to! 3 are just as worthy as a roast! We have them regularly now!

Cinema showing? I'm told the new mario film is a laugh! Nice walk in a park?

Should have rtft... This sounds perfect OP