How was Easter with your family, when you were a child :) ?

Question

Thank you for sharing, and Happy Easter! :)

Where do (did) you live?

Answer 1

I was born in 1947, so I was a child a very long time ago.

Easter was mostly lilies all over the place and wearing my new spring Sunday outfit. We went to church, of course, because my mother was a Sunday school teacher.

We had hard-boiled eggs which were dyed by dipping them in a mysterious cup of different colors swirled together. My grandmother had little bottles of dye which she dotted onto the eggs one color at a time, using Q-tips. Sometimes there were little transfers with pictures of bunnies and chicks which could be adhered to the side of an egg.

Mom and Dad would hide the eggs all over the house and the yard while we were asleep, and we looked for them in the house when we first got up. But we were not allowed to go look for them outside until after church. Then they would take pictures of us in our new Sunday dresses, searching for eggs in the yard and garden.

We each got a basket filled with artificial grass, with toys and little hard candy (later foil-wrapped chocolate) eggs, and often spun-sugar eggs with little scenes inside when you looked through a hole in one end. We could take out all the contents of these baskets except the grass and use them to go look for eggs on the lawn. Usually Daddy stole some of the candy while we were outside.

And the candy, especially the chocolate! If you got a hollow chocolate bunny, you always bit off the ears first. My grandmother always gave us hollow chocolate eggs filled with Hershey's kisses. And there were always peanut butter eggs, which were covered in chocolate. We had enough candy that Susie became a diabetic, and I'm hypoglycemic, but we still hated it when Daddy stole. He never asked so we could give him our least favorites; he stole our most favorites! What a cruel, cruel daddy!

Answer 2

Easter was always a happy memory. First thing we would do when we got up was look for our Easter baskets, full of goodies. (well on Saturday we alway dyed eggs! so much fun) We would always get a new dress, usually homemade. I still can picture my sisters and mine matching dresses, only hers was blue, mine was pink. We were not a wealthy family at all so our baskets were so special. We would always go to church, I mean what is Easter without Jesus right? We'd have a nice big dinner with family. What a good question, really makes ya think back to happy childhood memories, especially now that my dad is no longer living.
Happy Happy Easter to you!!
ps. I live in Montana

Answer 3

Easter morning I would wake up to run to the living room to find a big Easter basket that the Easter bunny had left for me while I was sleeping. My mom always made my baskets and filled them with cool stuff. We'd then go over to a family members house for lunch or dinner and all the kids would have a big egg hunt.

Answer 4

Did not celebrate Easter until I had my own family. Use to hide eggs in backyard for both of my kids, even the dogs participated. Then go to Grandmas house for another easter egg hunt and easter dinner. But mom is now gone so sister in law said no more holidays at the house.

Answer 5

Hi there! I will share with you an Easter secret I learned from my mom while growing up.

The Easter Bunny (or mom) would randomly leave jelly beans all over the house. Sometimes they would be in my shoe, on my dresser, kitchen table, etc, etc. This would start about a week before the holiday. The story was The Easter Bunny was looking for places to hide his eggs (early of course) and dropped a few things on his/her way out the door.
I used to love it! Heck, I'm almost 30 years old and I do it to my girlfriend and co-workers and they get a kick out of it!

Answer 6

Easter has not ever been a massive get together with me, and my loved ones will not be religious both. I'm 26 unmarried, no kids, and only have my mother and father and brother (who also has no youngsters). I might recommend doing a dinner training factor... Maybe appear up some distinctive Easter recipes for meals, appetizers and a dessert. I normally revel in cooking so that is what i'd do... Hire some films and simply hang around across the condo all day and consume.

Answer 7

I would wake up the Easter morning with my 3 sisters, run into the kitchen and find our Easter baskets full with gifts. We then had to get dressed in fancy dresses and go to Church. After Church we went to my grandparents house and ate from breakfast to dinner with approximately 30 relatives. Although alot of relatives have passed away, alot were born and we celebrate Easter exactly the same way.

Answer 8

Easter has never been a great occasion with me, and my kinfolk isn't religious the two. i'm 26 single, no teenagers, and in ordinary terms have my parents and brother (who additionally has no teenagers). i could propose doing a dinner education element... perhaps look up some different Easter recipes for foodstuff, appetizers and a dessert. I constantly take exhilaration in cooking so as that's what i could do... lease some video clips and only dangle out around the residing house all day and consume.

Answer 9

In WEstern Canada, but we celebrated a traditional Ukrainian Catholic Easter. It was totally wonderful, all the services were beautiful, and the special things we did were amazing.
Loved getting a new Easter dress and shoes!

Answer 10

When my sister and I were small we would go to church with our mom and then go home and have a big family dinner. We also would have our Easter baskets with candy. Now that our parents are no longer living our family has split apart.