OT - Easter Traditions
I love Holiday traditions. What are yours?
We used to do the whole hunt for the candy and goodies around the house for our kids - give them each an empty basket and let 'em loose! They'd each always get a few trinkets along the way, HotWheels cars for Trav, nail polish & such for Bailey. Sidewalk chalk, and a movie for each.
Now that they're older and are no longer interested in the "hunt", we just fill a basket full of goodies for each, and leave them outside their bedroom doors for them to find in the morning. They each still get a movie - that's the one "tradition" they both wanted to keep!
We have my mom over Saturday night, make some kind of special breakfast (egg bake, cinnamon rolls, etc...) then go to church, and usually go to Rich's brother's house for dinner.
My favorite memory was when Trav was probably about 5 or 6... we "coached" the kids on where they might look for the last few missing tidbits the Easter Bunny had hidden. Trav got a puzzled look on his face, looked at me and asked - "Mom, how do YOU know where the Easter Bunny hid everything?"
In one of my better demonstrations of thinking fast, I replied "Honey, the Easter Bunny ALWAYS came to my house when I was a kid - I just have a real good feel for his favorite kinds of hiding spots!"
He took it, hook, line & sinker. (Those of you with little kidlets - feel free to use that if you ever get that question!)
HAPPY EASTER, EVERYONE!!!
We used to do the whole hunt for the candy and goodies around the house for our kids - give them each an empty basket and let 'em loose! They'd each always get a few trinkets along the way, HotWheels cars for Trav, nail polish & such for Bailey. Sidewalk chalk, and a movie for each.
Now that they're older and are no longer interested in the "hunt", we just fill a basket full of goodies for each, and leave them outside their bedroom doors for them to find in the morning. They each still get a movie - that's the one "tradition" they both wanted to keep!
We have my mom over Saturday night, make some kind of special breakfast (egg bake, cinnamon rolls, etc...) then go to church, and usually go to Rich's brother's house for dinner.
My favorite memory was when Trav was probably about 5 or 6... we "coached" the kids on where they might look for the last few missing tidbits the Easter Bunny had hidden. Trav got a puzzled look on his face, looked at me and asked - "Mom, how do YOU know where the Easter Bunny hid everything?"
In one of my better demonstrations of thinking fast, I replied "Honey, the Easter Bunny ALWAYS came to my house when I was a kid - I just have a real good feel for his favorite kinds of hiding spots!"
He took it, hook, line & sinker. (Those of you with little kidlets - feel free to use that if you ever get that question!)
HAPPY EASTER, EVERYONE!!!
Imperfect does not = unsuccessful
Coloring eggs will always be a tradition....besides, we love to eat HB eggs...typically make a nice potato salad....
Hot Cross Buns.....what could be better.
The kids have outgrown baskets, but we still seem to have a ton of chocolate around the house.....bummer.
I used to make roast lamb for Easter, but I'm the ONLY one in the house that likes it, so unless I want to carry on that tradition solo, it ain't happening. Now it's just ham....(Of course that means I gotta bean soup batch a'comin......yeah!)
I love church on Easter....but it's the most crowded sunday out of the year.
Hot Cross Buns.....what could be better.
The kids have outgrown baskets, but we still seem to have a ton of chocolate around the house.....bummer.
I used to make roast lamb for Easter, but I'm the ONLY one in the house that likes it, so unless I want to carry on that tradition solo, it ain't happening. Now it's just ham....(Of course that means I gotta bean soup batch a'comin......yeah!)
I love church on Easter....but it's the most crowded sunday out of the year.
Our Easter traditions will be a little *****anged this yr. We usually go to my sister's for the weekend and spend it with my family. We usually have a HUGE egg hunt for the kids. We were supposed to close on our house last Fri then this Fri and neither one happened so we planned to be here either moving or getting settled. We do always go to church whether it's our church or my sister's. We'll still go to church here. We're doing a mini egg hunt for Sadie at home. I'm cooking a pot roast instead of ham too. We are going to stop at my father in law's so grandma and grandpa can see Sadie in her princess dress LOL. A new tradition that seems to have been started is that Sadie and I take half the day off and go to daddy's work at the hospital. We have lunch with daddy then she changed into her Easter clothes and paraded around for all to see. She just loves all the attention. We've done this right before every holiday since she was born now. She has another whole adopted family there at the hospital and after being there today I wonder why I bothered buying her anything for her Easter basket. It was like Christmas. She got 2 dresses, a short outfit, a chocolate bunny, m-n-m egg, 2 stuffed bunnies, a stuffed puppy, a chocolate sucker, a new Easter basket, and a huge basket shaped balloon. I think the guys my husband works with are enjoying this new tradition as much as her. A big thing that we've carried on from when I was a kid was the whole dressing up fancy for church.
We have Russian Easter.. on a different day.
Traditions?
--Dying eggs with onion peel... into a dark red color
--An egg beating game where everyone picks out an egg (hard boiled) and we either hit "butts" (the rounder part of the egg) or noses (the pointier end)... whoever's egg doesn't crack moves on in the competition. The egg with the least sides cracked (of the two possible sides) wins!
--Hard boiled egg rolling.... we use something as a slope to roll eggs down onto the ground. Each person gets several eggs and you try to roll your eggs so they hit other people's eggs. If you hit their egg, you get to keep it. In the end, the person with the most eggs wins.
That's that!!
Traditions?
--Dying eggs with onion peel... into a dark red color
--An egg beating game where everyone picks out an egg (hard boiled) and we either hit "butts" (the rounder part of the egg) or noses (the pointier end)... whoever's egg doesn't crack moves on in the competition. The egg with the least sides cracked (of the two possible sides) wins!
--Hard boiled egg rolling.... we use something as a slope to roll eggs down onto the ground. Each person gets several eggs and you try to roll your eggs so they hit other people's eggs. If you hit their egg, you get to keep it. In the end, the person with the most eggs wins.
That's that!!
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