Last Sunday was Easter! I loved sitting in church with my daughter and all my grandgirls, singing old Easter hymns as well as newer ones. Loved the reminders of just what Jesus meant when, on the cross, He announced, “It is finished.” Then we came home and the remainder of the clan arrived and we cooked a delicious Greek dinner (no, we’re not Greek, but it’s still our traditional Easter dinner!) and my daughter, daughter-in-law, and niece set up a massive egg hunt for all the kids. What are your Easter traditions?
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Every child has his or her own color of eggs, filled with all kinds of things from candy to stickers to tiny toys. And they are mostly hidden in plain sight…
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Blessings this Sunday Valerie and all. For Easter we had dinner with our oldest son and family – ham, turkey, cheesy potatoes (family favorite), fresh green beans, salad, rolls with parmesan basil butter spread (family favorite) and a Bavarian raspberry roll for dessert. For our 3 grandkids, I hid Easter baskets in the house and plastic eggs outdoors on the deck (each child had their own color and this year we had a Golden Egg with $$). It was a nice sunny warm day to sit outdoors on the deck. Maybe next year I can have the entire group together, since our youngest son is moving closer to home in June. Easter isn’t complete till the family competes in the Easter Egg Tapping contest using colored hard boiled eggs. Opa’s egg won. Many Eastern European countries as well as Louisiana have this Easter tradition. The birds are chirping outside my window. We have ALL been enjoying the warmer Midwest weather. Blessings.
That sounds a lovely family filled Easter. We also spent it with family, we went to my parents along with my sister and her family. We did an egg hunt too. I love the idea of different colours for each child, I don’t know why we haven’t thought of this as it would make things so much easier!
Hi Renate! I’m happy to hear your son is moving closer! And I’d never heard of egg tapping. I had to look that up. What fun!
It really does simplify things since the kids turn more cooperative instead of competitive as they call out the colors they are seeing or ask if anyone has seen eggs with their color! It also enables the adults to tailor the “fillings” to the age of specific children. The toddler had “animal eggs” that had different things in them than the big girls. No chewy caramel candies, for instance.
I’m glad you enjoyed a family Easter, too.
That’s a really great idea, giving them their own color of eggs!! At least then you’d know if they got them all, too, by leaving them in plain sight!! I’ve started new traditions since Mom’s passing. For Easter, it was still attending the church service (I’d feel horrible if I didn’t go every Sunday, much less Easter!), and then I went to a friend’s house, and they even had an Easter basket for me! I took things for them, too, so that was really nice!
Hugs, Trudy. Sometimes we need new traditions. I’m glad you had a great Easter!
cute pic
Thanks!
I don’t really have any Easter traditions. I learnt this year in America and Canada many use plastic eggs with things in them for the easter hunt. Here in Australia, we normally use hunting eggs. They are often the small eggs by Cadbury (or one of the other companies) and some with use a little bigger hollow egg which come in packs for egg hunts. (some with have other ones like bunnies or bilbies just depends on who is doing it) We never believed in the Easter bunny so normally my brother hid an egg for me and me him. He is over 4 years older so I could never find them he always found mine straight away. One year I figured I would just put it under his pillow cos he would find it quick anyway. Well he was so frustrated went to sit on his bed and almost sat on it cos he couldn’t find it. Turns out it was the best hiding place ever!!
It looks as if everyone had a fabulous day. My husband and I had a laid back day. We cooked the day before. Congratulations to the winners. God bless you.
Yes, the plastic reusable eggs have been in use in our family for a lot of years now. When I was a kid, people hid actual decorated hardboiled eggs. (My family didn’t participate.) Fun story about your brother!
Laid-back days are great, too!
We didn’t do the decorated eggs as much here either. but I do know friends yesterday had orthodox Easter and had the fancy decorated eggs. I leant you tap them (2 people) and the one that breaks the other is the winner I think.
I like the plastic egg idea so you can colour co-ordinate. helps when there are younger kids who can miss out. We did a egg hunt for a church picnic and we made sure we had some we protected so only the littlest kids could get them. thankfully most of the older ones helped the smaller ones too but sometimes there are a couple really greedy ones.
Renate mentioned that egg-tapping game! I’d never heard of it before. And yes, the colors really make for a cooperative effort instead of competitive. I love that.
How wonderful to enjoy the time with your family. Plastic eggs are new to me. We would decorate hard boiled eggs when we were younger and after Sam our dachshund ate the chocolate eggs and thankfully recovered we chose traditions of attending church and hard boiled or lolly eggs.
We decorated hard-boiled eggs when I was a child, too, and ate egg sandwiches for a week! My girls often do that with the littles, too, but don’t hide them because it’s hard to keep track of them!