What are you doing to make Easter Sunday special?

Spirit_2

As a child Easter Sunday involved, church , chocolate eggs, a new dress and very often a vist to or from relatives.

We have followed a pretty similar pattern whilst my daughter was younger, or have at times gone away for the weekend

This year we have nothing planned - I have'nt even shopped for a roast yet. There are just the three of us and I need a bit of inspiration. I have left it all a bit late.

What are "old stylers" doing - or what can you recommend?

Thanks
Spirit

Nicki_Sue

We dont "do" a lot over Easter - so we are having a huge spring clean! WE have a new Dvd for lo from the library to keep him happy, then we can crack on doing a top to bottom, finding everything that needs recycling, freecycling and selling, stardropping all round and when everything is done we'll all go out for a walk and weather permitting some fun at the park!

SunnyGirl

We're not doing anything special either. My Mum & Dad are away in their caravan (or they should be but Dad's been taken into hopsital from the caravan park :eek:) and now that the three elder kids want to be with their friends in the holidays it's difficult to plan anything. I'm doing a roast gammon joint with roast pots & veg etc and I've made a chocolate easter cake decorated with mini eggs for dessert tonight but thats it really. I'll probably spend some time in the garden if the weather is nice and DH, myself & our youngest son will go for a walk with the dog.

It's strange how some traditions get dropped as the children get older as we always used to go to my Mum's on Easter Sunday, all dressed up etc, it was a bit like Christmas Day. Gotta roll with the times I suppose :rotfl:

I hope that you enjoy your day whatever you end up doing.

celyn90

I might invite some friends round for dinner and board games if I can get hold of them. I will bake a simnel cake as I always do, even though it's only me that eats it. Not much else.

thriftlady_2

I usually bring a flowering branch into the house and string it with little wooden eggs I bought from Ikea years ago and bows tied with very thin ribbon in yellow and green. It always looks lovely but this year I've not bothered.

no one has missed it and tbh I've only remembered about it because I'm reading this thread lol. We're having a roast cockerel tomorrow and trifle and there'll be an egg hunt in the garden.

tessie_bear

hi.....we go to church....have a fun easter egg hunt in the garden (weather permitting) and go to relations for a roast dinner....bit like christmas ...we do same everyyear

hope everyone has a nice day whatever they are doing
tess

rosieben

thriftlady wrote: »

I usually bring a flowering branch into the house and string it with little wooden eggs I bought from Ikea years ago and bows tied with very thin ribbon in yellow and green. ...

I love this idea, storing it away in my outlook calendar for next year

Edited to say, I'm not at all religious so for me this would be a great Spring celebration

AMG2B

Ooh - same here for me - as a child Easter was a bit like Christmas - it makes me sad not to do something, so we are going to church tomorrow, and then having a bit lunch with OHs family which will be lovely. Then on Monday I'm doing 'Easter Monday tea' for my side of the family. It will be busy but I love doing it. Have a lovely Easter everyone.

charlottecarter

I'm trying to teach my kids what easter is about...

On Wednesday we watched Prince of Eygpt to teach them about the passover meal.

On Thursday we had a kind of passover meal and all washed each other's feet - like Jesus did with his disciples. On the table everyone had some silver chocolate coins - representing the silver coins that Judas got in exchange for Jesus.

On Friday we ate hot cross buns and talked about Jesus dying on the cross. We had chicken for dinner and talked about Peter denying knowing Jesus 3 times before the cockeral crowed.

Today we went to a charity egg hunt in our local park and made simnel cake and easter cards for our family.

On Sunday we'll go to church.

On Monday we are having family round for lunch and we will have fish and honeycomb ice cream (not, obviously, together!)- in the king james translation of the bible it talks about the disciples giving Jesus fish and honeycomb when they saw him after he came back to life.

That's easter in our family... x

love-hearts

I'm working:(.

deborah64

We have the in laws over for dinner, thats about it really, we still have a nice time though.