Easter - what do you do?

What do you guys do for Easter? Is there a religious significance for you, or is it just another long hol? Do you buy eggs for your kids if you have them?

Its just a long weekend to me and a packet of Maltesers

Well we don't really do much. Pig out mostly haha Mums heading off to New York so me dad n sister are gonna do a bit of extra pigging out without being told off!

Off on our hols to Sue's place on Saturday , no praying but probably plenty of swearing ! I requested a bar of chocolate instead of wasting money on eggs. Jenny and her mate Keeley are both coming and I suppose they will have loads of eggs and really looking forward to taking Tilly to the beach............oh and lots of alcohol

Not doing anything.Hubbys at work as always lol

I'll be cooking a roast, the kids will be stuffing their faces with Easter eggs, hubby will prob be on the playstation. What do you do Caryll?

I'll be working all weekend, but I wouldn't have been doing anything for easter anyways. Might try take Violet to the park on the Monday, as they always put on an easter petting zoo and have Clydesdale horses giving cart rides too!

church & family. Easter is central to our family's faith.

and lots of food.

we'll not be doing anything different apart from my eldest having his easter eggs, he wont know what day it is though and we'll just have a Sunday roast like every sunday what about you Caryll?

We don't really do anything special.

Matt 2 wrote:church & family. Easter is central to our family's faith.

Wow, just you & me go to Church, then?

My Easter starts on Thursday with The Last Supper, the the Passion Service on Friday & the Easter Vigil Saturday night, which covers me for the sunday.

We do have easter eggs, but that's just a side issue for me. After all, the whole point of Easter is religious, and it's the most important time in the Christian Church's year.

agree completely

I also go to church, friends and family. We usually have a good friday service and Easter too. Egg hunts for the kids and the dogs have to watch.

bbimson wrote:I also go to church, friends and family. We usually have a good friday service and Easter too. Egg hunts for the kids and the dogs have to watch.

We got a doggie easter egg for Dempsey this year!

didn't know those existed

One year I hid some small foil covered Easter eggs with the bigger packaged ones in the back garden for the kids. Ellie my previous Staffy went out for a long wee. When the kids went egg hunting, no small eggs to be found and bits of foil in the dog poo for a while, so we knew who had eaten them. Luckily cheap eggs with little real chocolate, so Ellie was ok.

nothing I am on my own, everyone is away apart from me

we have never done anything for easter

lynne wrote:nothing I am on my own, everyone is away apart from me

Aw, Lynne. You'll have to be on here more, then!

I'm normally working but I'm off just now so I'll be going to my mums for dinner. My sister, her husband and their kids will be there so there will be an easter egg hunt for them

i have my own business..so i will be working..i own 2 pizzabar/cafes so if anyone would like a pizza please let me no... it may take a while to get there for some of you..but i will try my best and see what i can do!!..

I used to do the whole religious thing. I can recall doing the 12 stations of the Cross being on my knees for almost 4 hrs.

Dont do it anymore as I have a different way of thinking now. Will be with all the grand kids at my sons place on Sunday. We will have an eater egg hunt for the kiddies and probably a BBQ for lunch. My son is married to a Moslem girl and even though my grandson is being raised open to all creeds, we simply do not make it a religious time.

I have a great deal of respect for all religions (I have a couple of Pagan friends & their religion attracts me, even though I'm a Catholic), and please, nobody take this as a personal attack, but Easter is a religious time! Without Christianity there wouldn't be an Easter! Without Easter, there wouldn't be Christianity!

It seems that people nowadays prefer to ignore the relevence of an occasion & just bend it to their own needs. It's the same at Christmas.

i agree, Caryll

but Easter is a religious time! Without Christianity there wouldn't be an Easter! Without Easter, there wouldn't be Christianity!

Easter is a pagan fertility festival celebrating the spring equinox hence the eggs and 'easter bunny'; the hare a signficent power animal and representation of spring being parodied by the bunny. Of course the Christian festival of the ressurection would still occur but it's only at the same time as easter/eostre because the church tried to stamp out paganism and put all the christian festivals on top of the pagan ones. I'm sure you know this anyway.
Funnily enough Pesach (passover) has fallen at the same time but i'm not doing anything for that either, I would make some lamb but I can't afford it.
Very pleased I have two days off work. I hope everyone enjoys themselves whatever festival you are celebrating. If you can eat eggs i'm very jealous.

'Easter' as is stands today is a Christian festival. Yes, the timing is based on a pagan festival, but Easter itself is, and has been for centuries, a Christian festival. It's the death & resurrection of Jesus.

i have no faith so its not a major time for our house ( all faiths over time have created wars) so i don't get involved, apart from my son pigging out and me and the better half having a week off

I agree with you Caryll on it being a Religious time.

I always saw it a religious festival, but don't go to church any more - so its a chance to relax and stay away from overcrowded and over commercialised places and cash in on cheap chocolate in the supermarket after

I'm working it all as usual, but we will prob buy some eggs once Easter is done as I'm not fussed TBH

Going to the pub

After reading through all your messages I have now changed my mind and I will now be celebrating Easter.

I think I will treat my hubby to roast lamb on Easter Sunday with all the trimmings and even spoil him with an Easter Egg too. Some traditions should not be allowed to die and I will do my utmost to see Easter celebrated this year, as it should be.

Thanks to all for inspiring me to do this (I think I just needed a kick up the bum TBH)