Easter...How do you celebrate?
 

For me it's really just another day. When my grandmother was alive, and half my family hadnt gone insane yet, my aunt that lives across the street (she's on the more sane side of the family) would make baskets for everyone. But, then half the family went insane (during the reading of my grandmother's will...it's always about money)

So, half the family doesnt talk, and other than my aunt's two daughters and 3 (soon to be 4) grandchildren, I'm the only other person she makes a basket for.

At least she buys good chocolate and loads us up on the M&M's.

I usually make my parents baskets, but this year, I cant load my dad up with candy and coffee. This year his basket is really just going to be a small assortment of decaf coffee's (the kind that make 1 pot each) I might get him a jar of no salt nuts. He's developed a heart problem and cant have anything cool anymore. (his choice, he's trying to lose a lot of weight. He's lost 50+ pounds, but most of that so far was due to the diuretics he's taking)

I guess I'll do some sort of a cookie and candy basket for my mom. She likes cookies...too bad she only likes one kind of coffee (chickory flavored...ewwwwww!!! It's some weird Southern thing) I'm going to get her some See's candy to go with the cookies.

Ham for dinner. Tradition for both my family and my hubby's.

We try to get together with his family since they are in driving distance.

Kids get to color easter eggs. Easter baskets with chocolate and jelly beans. In my family, also included stuffed animals. I had a collection of chicks and bunnies by the time I was a teen.

I remember going to church in pretty new easter dresses and those buster brown mary jane shoes.

Easter and Christmas were always my mom's favorite holidays, and mine too.

We celebrate Easter too. It's a special holiday for me and for DH's family.

We color eggs, and when the kids were little we would hide the eggs and the kids would find them.

we have a huge easter feast. It's my turn this year:eek: I have about 30 family members coming this year. The menu is:

Ham
Lasagna
Macaroni Salad
cheesy potatoes
Garlic Salad
pretzel jello(mmmmgood)
pies
cakes

I am tired already:rolleyes:

Church in the morning, long coffee hour afterward, then big Honey Baked ham dinner, watch the men act like they've never seen a kitchen, kick back and play "Pin the Crap on the Baby" if we currently have one who will fall for it.:D

Both my boys and their girlfriends will be here for dinner. I stopped making Easter baskets a couple of years ago - neither of them are big candy eaters and you-know-who was eating most of it so . . . . .

I'm going to try my hand at making cornish hens. I was trying to explain this to my oldest son who had never heard of a cornish hen. I finally had to say "it's like a personal pan pizza only it's not a pizza it's a chicken." That seemed to do the trick.

I'm going to make cornish hens stuffed with wild rice stuffing, roasted asparagus, parker house rolls and angel lush cake with pineapple.

Yummy . . . I'm already hungry!

We still have a big family dinner at parents house {we all bring food} and still hide eggs outside even though youngest kid is 13.

aunts & uncles hide the eggs for teens & 20 somethings after a few rounds we switch and they hide the eggs for us oldsters:D
Then we go back in the house and pull out the old video of the 20 somethings taken on a Easter 20 yrs ago...
So cute to see your kids again when they were little and silly & goofy - and the clothes we had them dressed in back then:o I swear most of them must have dressed them selves..
good for a laugh.

My DD and I color eggs. My DH and I hide plastic eggs and a basket for our DD. Then we go to my mother's house and have dinner with the family. There is another Easter Egg and basket hunt there. I love when it is nice and warm out and we can have our hunt outside. That happens only once in a while so it's a treat.

we just decided that we're going to one of the best old restaurants in town (italian restaurant) that I've loved since I was little.

Just this year they started to take reservations on some holidays and have a special menu set up for those holidays.

On thanksgiving, they had on the menu, turkey and stuffing and ham and things like that. So, we had our T-day dinner there with one of my dad's sisters (part of the insane group in our family, but she's not quite as nutso as the others) and every thing was great. I had the turkey, and they also had a lot of their Italian menu items, so for appetizers, we had fried raviolis.

We're making the reservations tonight for Easter day, and I've already seen the menu....I cant wait...spaghetti and meatballs! fried ravioli and garlic bread. My kind of food. (no italian in my family, we're Luxembourg-Irish, but my dad did grow up in the part of town that used to be called Little Italy)

I love Italian food. I cant wait, it's only place in town that makes decent restaurant spaghetti.

Since I work every Sunday I will head over to SO's Mothers after. She usually has ham and all the trimmings. Since I will not arrive until after dinner I will get lots of leftovers. :) I like this as I do not even have to do the dishes. It is sweet because his mom makes all of us Easter baskets every year.

Joyce

Easter in a week????????:eek: Why was I thinking it was in April?

My kids are grown and no longer like to dye eggs. Thank goodness.
We always get the kids candy and a chocolate easter bunny. Spend the day at the inlaws house.

Usually ham and all the fixings.

I'm not sure what I'm doing for my daughter this year. She cannot have sugar. So no regular candy for her. She told me a while back that she saw sugar free peeps in one of the store circulars. We have looked and looked but cannot find any Easter candy that is sugar free.
(isnt sugar what peeps are made of? How can they be sugar free?)

DAY

My husband and daughter are Jewish so no Easter at our house...but we go to my parents' house and help *them* celebrate *their* holiday. :)

We do the traditional ham, or roast beef, scalloped potatoes, sweet potatoes, veggies, etc...in addition to all of the munchies we eat through out the day (stuffed eggs, spinach dip, baked brie, etc.).

Chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate.
Jelly beans. Even the spiced kind.

Followed by my "Cool Hand Luke" eat-all-the-boiled-eggs impersonation.

Good times...

Good times.

But seriously folks... now I feel a little guilty. Should get back into church. Had it not been for God stepping in and saying, Knock it off, you hard headed rascal!, I wouldn't be as well off as I am today.

~Don't let the cheery demeanor throw you off... I'm still a fat cripple! HA!:)