Do you celebrate Easter?

Absolutely! Went to Easter Worship, as well as Good Friday. We have no family or friends so just us, wife has to work. Ham, potatoes, veggies for dinner. Reading of Scriptures and prayer later on tonight.

As a side note, every Sunday Christians celebrate Easter, which is the resurrection of our crucified Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. So, next Sunday, we’ll be back in church celebrating Easter, just without the added flare of the one designated Easter Sunday. It varies church to church, but we celebrate Communion once a month save for special occasions like Good Friday.

Buy candy and baskets for my grand kids. Even the older ones get goodies even though they don’t believe in the bunny sny more. Usually have an egg hunt in the yard as well.

Not really. I try to buy the chocolate on the Monday after easter when it goes on sale. Growing up we dyed the eggs and went on Easter Egg hunts, and ate chocolates. My family isn’t Christian, but my mom told me later that she saw it as a spring holiday. I think it had more to do with that side of my family being artists and chocoholics.

Yes. Worship service this morning, and a family dinner later in the day.

I made baskets Friday, did an act of service yesterday, and spent today with family.

No.
I just have no space for a rabbit shrine.

Nope

I ate M&M’s till they came out my ears, I may go into a coma now…

Negative

When I was little, we colored eggs a day or two prior, and on Easter Sunday, we went to dinner at my grandmother’s house. THe Easter Bunny would leave baskets at my house, with candy and small trinkets that my mother brought out year after year.

As an adult, before my mother died, she would color eggs with my daughter a few days prior to Easter, and we’d go to dinner at her house on Easter Sunday. The Easter Bunny left baskets at my house for my daughter and at my mother’s house for my daughter.

Now, for example today, I went with my stepfather and his girlfriend and my sister and my daughter to a fancy restaurant for a 2 o’clock lunch. It was a price fixe thing that included appetizer, entree and dessert, and mimosas or bloody Marys. The Easter Bunny left stuff at my house for my daughter, even though she’s a teenager and no longer believes in the Easter Bunny, it’s a fun tradition. I put some candy, some trinkets, a few stuffed animals, and some small scented candles (Yankee Candle from Costco).

I didn’t color eggs this year because I really don’t eat a whole lot of hard boiled eggs, nor does my daughter.

^^ I fondly remember the days when we would color eggs, and still love the scent of vinegar. My mom sewed beautifully and would always make outfits for my sister and I. We wore hats and gloves and tights and new shoes and matching purses and the whole nine yards.

I stopped celebrating Easter when I found out that I had to eat the eggs that I found. I was afraid to get cancer from eating food colored eggs.

I was being a smart ass when I said that I gave up Christianity for Lent.

For me Easter is a time for chocolate. Especially for Cadbury creme eggs.

My favorite Easter candy is Peeps. My second favorite is black jelly beans.

@RedDeerGuy1 That’s pretty funny about Lent! I didn’t see that comment.

No. Couldn’t give a shit.

I wished my family members Happy Easter. That was about it for me.

Not since my children were little. My husband and I went camping this weekend and it was the most relaxing Easter weekend we’ve ever had. There were hardly any other campers at the campground. We loved it.

I do! So, typically the church I attend has services on the Thursday before, which celebrates the Last supper and the night before Jesus died. And then we’ll have a service on Good Friday which was the day that he died. And then of course we have church on Sunday, like we always do, but there’ll be extra music and things going on so sometimes it’s a bit of a longer service.

For the rest of the day I don’t typically do that much. I know some people have a big Easter dinner but my family isn’t really inclined that way, or they just do something with their individual spouses and kids. But I work at a church and that weekend between Palm Sunday and Easter is really busy. I have two extra bulletins to do and lots of other chaos going on, so that by the time I get to Sunday afternoon, I’m pretty wiped out. So I’m planning content to go home and take myself a nice nap and just take it easy.

This year, however, this nice lady from my church invited me over for Easter dinner and I decided to go. She actually had asked me over on Thanksgiving Day last year because at the last moment my sister-in-law, who was cooking, got the flu and so the family didn’t get together until a few days later. Well, I did have a nice time again, but I was so tired by the time I got home I almost wished I had politely declined. Fortunately, I’m off today so I’m kind of taking it easy to catch up on rest.

@Acrylic that’s how my church does it too, every week is a celebration of the Resurrection. But I’m Lutheran, so we actually have communion every single service, except for Good Friday because it’s supposed to represent that Christ is in the grave and is separated from God temporarily.

@JLeslie I typically do the after the holiday buying candy thing because it is much cheaper, especially nowadays! But I was at CVS picking up my prescriptions on Friday and I had $10 worth of free coupons that were going to expire that day so I got myself some Reese’s peanut butter eggs and some Cadbury creme eggs. The last me a while because I can only have a bit of chocolate at a time but it’s nice to indulge every once in awhile.

@KNOWITALL I like the act of service thing. I’ve never really done that before but interestingly enough, this past Saturday I went down Church and went through this huge stack of choir music that my dear choir director never has any spare time to go through. I had meant to sort through it and refile it this past winter but then had some health issues and such and so never got around to it. So I spent about 5 hours at the church working on it and got it in really good shape for him. And he was really surprised and touched when he came in on Sunday morning and all that had been taken care of.

@RedDeerGuy1 the Cadbury creme eggs are to die for! But we dyed eggs, but we never hid them outside. I never thought about the danger from the dye, but I would be concerned if the eggs were sitting out in the sun for a while. Around these parts, whenever there’s an Easter egg hunt, they never use real eggs, they buy the plastic ones and then they put little candies or sometimes coins in there.

I’ll be checking out the Easter clearance chocolate display.