Are you doing anything special or different for Easter and Passover this year?

Of course it is different. Normally I would go to my brother’s for a seder in NYC. I was figuring on doing nothing for tonight but they invited me to a Zoom seder. I’ll have supper on my own beforehand. The ritual is not that important to me; it is the being with family.

No Easter Mass on Sunday. No visit with my mom. No See’s chocolate eggs or bunnies.

I live in a part of Atlanta where there are churches galore. In one ½ mile stretch there are something like seven churches of various varieties. On a normal Sunday, if you are trying to drive down GA20 around noon, when all the services let out, you can be stuck in traffic for a good half hour.

It’s safe to say that traffic will not be a problem this Sunday.

Also, on Easter Sunday in a normal year, almost all retail is closed because of the holiday. This year all retail will be closed, but not for the same reason.

Nothing different. Some years I make my grandma’s Passover candies, but not always. I won’t be making them this year. During Passover I make one or two of the dishes from my grandma’s recipes also for dinner. I might try to do that. I need to go to the store to buy some of the ingredients though. Last time I was in the store they were out of some of it. If I don’t do it during Passover I’ll do it sometime soon.

There is a restaurant here that I could get Passover take-out. I haven’t eaten any restaurant food for three weeks. I’ll think about it, but I’m thinking about other take-out too. That restaurant always has matzoh ball soup, we eat it all year here.

I never do a Seder at home, but sometimes if we are invited we go to a friend’s house.

For Easter I usually go candy shopping on the Monday after. I doubt I’ll bother, although I could time my next shopping on that day. I wonder if the stores will have less traffic on Easter? That might be a good day to go grocery shopping.

Since no one is out and about searching for easter eggs, this year I will, unfortunately, not go around, scattering rabbit corpses dressed in easty bunny costumes and shattered eggs.

No dinner with my family this year. I haven’t seen my brother for 3 weeks and I usually see him every week. It will be a long time before we get together.

No.
We usually go to my sister’s but that won’t happen this year.
I told her to just send me candy ;)

We’ll probably binge the new episodes of WestWorld. I usually work on Sunday but don’t have to this weekend. I’m going to enjoy it. I bought my Easter chocolates yesterday after my shift at work.