HAPPY EASTER!! How Do You Celebrate?

Happy Easter! Yes - we had one this morning - feeling full of chocolate at the moment! We fill plastic eggs - equal number per kid - and hide them all over the house.

We colored some hard boiled ones this year - thanks to Mamapedia moms for posting how to do this in an earlier post - worked really well. The kids used crayons underneath the dye and it worked out really well. I did the packet of dye with the instruction but food coloring, vinegar and boiling water worked better. Fun.

We do an Easter Brunch instead of a big dinner. So we do a little ham, eggs and hashbrowns and the kids made delicious cupcakes and decorated them with eggs on top.

I don't think I need to eat for rest of day. Enjoying my downtime at the moment with a coffee. Hope everyone else is having a nice Easter too!

Happy Easter to you W. W. and all other moms (and dads) on MMP!!!

My daughter is coming over later and we will have some traditional food to eat and her request of my homemade marinara sauce with pasta. Even though she is 21, I have already boiled eggs and we will dye them. She still loves decorating them. I have a beautiful basket from Godiva for her with a chocolate bunny and a little soft stuffed bunny that I couldn't resist because it was so adorable. I also have stuffed plastic eggs with Easter M & M's and a card with her favorite... CASH! I look forward to a nice day. I am also surprising her with an edible arrangement of strawberries and pineapple daisies!!

I am passing down my Oreck vac so she has a better set up in her condo. I had taken mine in for its regular service about 2 weeks ago and when I went to pick up, the model I had looed at with my hubby back in 9/15 was on closeout. Our plan was to give daughter my Oreck and I get a new one. Well I got a deal!!! The model I was going to buy was $600 but if I bought the floor model that had never been out of the store and had been fully serviced STILL with the 10 yr warranty, I could get it for $299!! So I bought myself a new vac. That has nothing to do with Easter but if anyone out there needs a vac, go check out the deals!!

Yesterday I received my Easter gift, at least that is how I feel about it. Back in 11/15, we ordered the headstone for my husband's grave (many of you know that he had a heart attack at home and died 10/10/15). It is a stone that the funeral home offered but no one had used it before. It is imported from South Africa I believe. It is jet black and has a few little gold specks in it. We fell in love with it. It is very bold and strong and that fits my husband SO well. So, yesterday the funeral home called and his stone was set yesterday morning!! I had been going to the cemetery too much hoping to be surprised when I got there. I did run by yesterday and it looks beautiful. Daughter and I will be going today so she can see it as well. We can't put flowers in the vase for a week until everything sets so we will place fresh flowers on the ground at he base of the stone.

The stone will be used as an example for other families selecting headstones because it is the only stone like it in the cemetery. As much as I hate going through the loss of my husband, I feel like we are honoring him as the loving, supportive and strong man he was. We miss him like crazy and I still have bad moments but the headstone does give a bit of closure if that makes any sense.

I apologize for my novel. I do wish each of you a good day and keep in mind that life can change in a second. We were talking, laughing and all of a sudden he dropped dead. It is that fast. I thank God I was with him when it happened, as scary as it was.

TF

We get up, the boys take a quick peek at their Easter baskets and we get ready for church. Our church serves breakfast before the service on Easter. When we get home from church the boys hunt for their eggs. I was worried that at 11 and 14 they were too old, but who's ever too old for chocolate? This year enough of the snow was gone for them to hunt outside. This year we aren't getting together with family as my brothers family is on vacation, so I am cooking an Easter turkey at home. Happy Easter everyone.

We put dollar coins in plastic eggs and had our Easter Egg hunt!
We have a ham in the crock pot and we'll be having a late lunch/early supper about 3pm.
We're watching Dr Who and having a relaxing day!

My guys are out of town, visiting my in-laws this year. It's my first Easter that Kiddo's been away.

We usually color eggs, do an Easter Egg hunt in the garden, and give him an 'outdoors' related present along with a couple nice pieces of chocolate. This year I wiggled things around since he's with his grandparents with no toys and no kids to play with. Mama Easter Bunny ordered a K'Nex gears set with motors so he had something to do while he was there. Apparently they went to Jungle Gardens and miniature golf (they are in Florida) today.

I myself am going to enjoy a cup of tea and chocolate croissant in a few minutes:) I'll miss the fun of the hunt, but there's always next year!

My kids (nearly 14 and 16) and my husband had easter baskets to find. My own basket was full of laundry to wash. LOL

Now the three of them are playing a tabletop RPG called Pathfinder. My husband made lunch; I have a pork roast in the crockpot for dinner.

Happy Easter!!!

My 3 kids slept until after 8 and my husband didn't go out to hide the eggs until around 8. The youngest MAY still believe, but I'm not sure. Either way, every year it's been "daddy counting the eggs" so they are used to him being late with that. We always woke up to it being done, but it is what it is. They had 14 eggs each to find...they said they wanted more. Last year they had 25 each. So I think we'll go back to higher numbers...doesn't hurt anything and they like it more.

My parents ditched us here for the kid in SC, so my brother and a friend came over for dinner. My sister and her family came over for dessert. It was a great and relaxing day for sure!

I think my kids will ALWAYS want to do eggs, and I'm okay with that as long as I don't have to smell the vinegar, I can't stand it.

We do one special egg, but don't mark it as special. Maybe next year I'll do a Golden Egg. The special egg only has $1 in it, but that's because I don't want the massive fight over who gets it. The middle kid isn't as in to looking for things as the other two. The youngest and middle saw the "special" egg at the same time but didn't know it. The little one got it, and later gave his brother $0.50. It made my day.

Yes. We went to church on Holy Thursday and yesterday for a family service followed by brunch and entertainment. Church again today and then my uncle made corned beef and cabbage because we hadn't had our usual st pats get together.

We took 3 of our 6 kiddos, my mom, my brother, and my nephew to a very fancy Easter brunch today (our youngest son is in an ICF/MR so we picked a place close to him so we could pick him up, too). Our other 3 and our grandbaby are in various states today so they were not able to make it. This is the first year that we did not do Easter baskets and no one seemed to mind. I did a high impact exercise program and a 3 mile run when we got home - everyone else is watching the Ten Commandments (tradition for us) in the living room. Luckily I made a small dinner last night for tonight since everyone will probably still be full from the buffet!

Happy Easter!

My Unitarian church does a flower communion.
My husband and I give each other, my daughter, and her partner gifts of chocolate.
That's about the extent of our Easter celebration.
We prefer to celebrate Half Price Chocolate Day today.

we go to my mother - in -laws. usually the sat before easter. she has a big buffet dinner, and we sit around talking with family. the big kids hide the eggs for the littles and every one watches. other than that we don't do anything for easter