Is Easter a big celebration in your home?

[Saphire]

Easter is huge for us! Church is awesome, full to the brim at all services, excellent music and celebration, my favorite part of the day.

Then we visit with extended family and enjoy a big ham dinner mid day. Kids are back in town, we still have Easter candy despite their ages. Good wine, lots of dessert, oh and this year...Red Sox opening day! Or should I say evening, which for me, is a great way to end an Easter Sunday!!!

 

[Pigeon]

Not really. We have a nice dinner, do Easter baskets and an egg hunt, but it's pretty low key. It's a cultural thing. We aren't religious at all.

 

[pigletgirl]

Well ever since my grandpa died when I was around 8, Easter has been really low key. We do church and then a meal along with easter baskets. Other than that, not a whole lot. For the past few years my dad has always had to work, so really it was just another weekend day, with jelly beans and chocolate! lol

This year, I'm not going home, but rather DF and I are hosting lunner (lunch/dinner) and having a bunch of friends over later in the day. We'll both go to church in the morning though...It is important to me, and DF doesn't mind coming along.

 

[klacey1]

Hmm, I don't know what's defined as "big." DBF and I go to his parent's house for dinner with his siblings and cousins (about 20 people). This year, we're going to stop by my nana's for dessert (also around 20 people). We always exchange baskets/gifts between the two of us and go to church in the morning. The day is important to us, but not as important as Thanksgiving (dinner for 50 at my nana's) or Christmas (dinner at my uncle's and 25 person party at DBF's parent's house).

 

[Cinerbelle]

I'll be sad when the kids stop wanting to do these egg hunts

I found filling the eggs with cash keeps them wanting to do the hunt no matter how old they get.

 

[minkydog]

Easter is a Holy day for us, not a day of rabbits and eggs. We have no problem with the Easter bunny and will give baskets to our kids like we got them growing up, but the Holiness is far more important than the eggs and bunnies. Lunch with family after church, etc.

For us too.We always go to church on Easter morning. We don't do Easter bunnies, but we dye our eggs and I put a little pie pan out with some jelly beans in it for the kids. We don't do presents or new clothes. I bake a ham and we have a nice dinner with the kids and whatever friends happen to be around. I never know who is going to show up at my table.

 

[ead79]

As a Christian, Easter is very significant to me as the day we celebrate the resurrection of Christ. On the secular side of things, we don't do too much since we don't have kids yet. This year we are having the family over to our house for lunch after church on Easter, so it will be a little bit "bigger" than in previous years. We're serving honey baked ham with all the fixin's.

 

[MariDisney]

It's a big deal for us religiously. We'll spend several hours at church in the morning with various services and classes. The rest of the day will be relaxing. DD will have an Easter basket, but it's not that big of a deal. I will make a ham dinner. We don't see extended family on Easter or Christmas because of needing to be at our own church and the distance we would need to travel afterwards.

 

[starann]

Growing up Easter was just as big of a deal as Xmas and Thanksgiving. The fmaily (grandparents, aunt, uncle, their son and daughter and my dad, mom and us kids) would all get together at Bama and Poppop's house. The Easter Bunny would make us a basket for there (as well as home) which included a new set of PJs. We would do a plastic egg hunt. Huge dinner. SOme years we would sleep over Bama and Poppops house and color eggs the night before, 5 grandkids in a 2 bedroom house, but we always felt loved and wanted.


Now that Bama and Poppop are gone none of the holidays are a big 'family' deal. We no longer get together with my Aunt nad Uncle or their kids, I don;t speak to my father, so we don't see each other. But I want memories for my boys, so we do an indoor egg hunt (with coins in the eggs so the dogs dont try to eat them), we will do baskets from the Bunny and color eggs. I think my inlaws are coming over for dinner (my mom and stepfather were going to come over as well, but mom has strep throat).

So we are trying to make Easter a big deal......for the boys to have the great memories that I had as a child!

 

[Redpepperflakes14]

It's not a big deal for us. We will probably go to church, but we don't have any children so no Easter baskets or egg hunts. Both my DH's family and mine are about 500 miles away (thank you Easter bunny!) so we can't get together with them.

 

[Disney Doll]

Easter hs always been important from a religious standpoint, but it's not a big "social" extravaganza.

When we were kids, the Easter Bunny came and left baskets, then we had some kind of family dinner with various members of the family. As I got older, the family dinners got smaller as fmaily moved away and so forth. I can remember being a teenager and my father had to work a long shift on Easter Sunday and my mother and I had Philly cheese steak sandwiches for Easter dinner!

 

[aprilgail2]

Not a big deal- we do the easter basket, hunt for eggs then get together with some neighbors and they usually have small gifts for easter for my daughter and now that one neighbor has an almost 2 year old son we have things for him to- we made up an easter basket with toddler type things in it - not so much candy but a small bunny, some cookies, stuffed animal, bubbles and things like that! My daughter can't wait to give it to him!! We go out to dinner at a local restaurant- its a holiday so no way am I getting stuck cooking on the holiday!