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| Fudge having fun with Easter eggs two years ago |
Growing up Easter was always a favorite holiday of mine. When I was little (under 6) my mother would throw Easter parties for my friends and cousins. I faintly remember running around the outside of our brick house looking for eggs. It was so much fun I started that tradition with my own children. Every year we try to have some sort of fun Easter party with crafts, games, and of course, an Easter Egg hunt.
My kids pulled out some old home videos the other day. Several scenes were from an Easter party when my oldest was only about 6 or 7. To see my teenagers enjoying the video and reminiscing about that time gave me hope that they will want to continue that tradition with their own children.
One of the highlights of Easter was looking for our baskets. My dad came up with some of the best places! We had to search and search and search until we each found our own. One year they were in the oven, another up in the chimney. I don’t know who had more fun, my dad in hiding the baskets, or the kids in finding them! That is another tradition we carry on, only ours are given on Saturday instead of Sunday. Sometimes I give clues for the children to follow, other times they have to follow a string here, there, and everywhere to find their baskets. And sometimes they are on their own searching and searching like I did as a child.
All these festivities are held on Saturday. By evening we are all ready to begin the more spiritual celebration of the atonement and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We make resurrection rolls to eat Sunday morning for breakfast, we read from the scriptures, and have a Jerusalem dinner. Sunday morning we all put on our new Easter clothes and head to church. The afternoon is spent together as a family, eating the traditional Easter meal, singing Easter hymns, reading more scriptures, and watching church videos about Jesus Christ.
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How fun for your kids!! Mine have never had Easter Baskets. I do buy them their favorite Easter candy, we put it on the table. We read stories of Easter and talk about the Savior all week. We enjoy a wonderful dinner, attend a Sunrise service (I direct the community choir) and make it as holy a day as possible. We actually all love Easter, even without the goodies, but I could see that it would be so fun to find a creative happy medium.
sounds wonderful. I’m finding it hard to fit in all the things we want to do (like I want to make egg shape cake pops, but it isnt gonna happen) I wish I had money for new easter outfits for everyone. Thats one tradition that I want to start each year, but never happens.
That sounds a lot like my memories of childhood, except we didn’t have a lot of extended family…just a small gathering, but always together on every holiday!
I have been contemplating switching the festive Easter celibration to Saturday as well… Question, do you guys “do” the easter bunny?
How fun! I love your pictures of Fudge. I am so doing that this year with Jake. He is great at making silly faces since he is sick of me taking his pictures so much. 🙂
So here is my question…
Do you have a different traditional meal coming from your spanish background? My SIL does, (although it seems that tamales rule about every holiday! :D) so I wondered if your family celebrates the holidays with “traditional” meals?
Love WW. Thank you for always giving us the topics.