Do you celebrate Easter?

[princeofromance]

[nightdrot]

You bet I do!

Easter Sunday is my favorite holiday by a million miles. It is like Christmas only in far better weather and without the blaring in your face intensity.

To be sure, in our family growing up it was a huge holiday. My mother decorated the house. She had a little Easter village with Bunny figurines, she had a wreath on the front door with an Easter there - flowers and colored eggs and a couple of Bunny figures, and suchlike.

We would get up and look for the Easter baskets that the Bunny had hidden. These had always been hand made by my mother and were wrapped in colored celophane with a big chocolate bunny in the center - in the Bicentennial year of 1976, I still remember this, it was "Peter Patriot." The Bunny also brought us a few wrapped presents as well - and again these were all hidden all over the house and we hand to hunt for them.

Then we would go to church - which to be fair as little kids we were not all that keen on. Then to my mother's parent's house for brunch and --- guess what? ------ the Easter Bunny happened to have visited there and we got another smaller basket and a couple more presents.

Then after that to my Dad's parent's house where there was a huge dinner party - probably 60 or so people, friends and cousins - that would go fairly late into the evening.

On top of all that, in those days the public schools actually gave you an Easter break that ran from Good Friday through the whole week after Easter Sunday. So you got home late on Easter night but knowing that you had a whole week ahead of you to do whatever you want. The weather was finally - we lived in Michigan - turning warm after a long winter and as little kids we were out to run and play all day. When I was I high school, my friends and I would make day trips to local parks and such.

Suffice to say I have nothing but fond memories and my girlfriend and I do essentially the same things with our own children. Plus we have the extra advantage of living in the Washington, DC area so the weather is generally even better than it was in Michigan.

(We also added our own tradition of driving across the Chesapeake Bay bridge - and then back across - "breaking the seal on beach season" we call it - and then going to Annapolis to walk around and maybe take a bay cruise. Then we go to her parent's for a dinner party.)

As I say, it is all the fun of Christmas but without the blaring in your face television commercials, the lousy cold weather, and the garish colors. (I much prefer Easter pastels to Christmas primary colors.)

So as far as I am concerned we can dispense with all the other holidays. As to my kids, (ages, 9,8, and 6) I have to admit that seeing their excitement at any of the holidays warms my heart - but I still have to admit that when I think back, even to my own surprise, it is the Easters that I get the most sentimental about.

[AviatorTom]

When I was younger, with young kids, we celebrated Easter. Now, with kids grown, Easter is just another Sunday.

[Flower7]

No because though I’m a Christian, I believe that Easter is a fertility festival and is not a true religious holiday. There is nothing in the Bible that talks about this holiday or says that people should celebrate it. Yes, the events with Jesus resurrecting are mentioned, but Easter as a holiday is not.

Eggs represent fertility and rabbits multiply often. I feel like all of that has a different origin other than religion.

[EmmaMary]

@princeofromance

Absolutely... And as usual we will be putting on our traditional Easter Egg Hunt on our land, for both our children, all our nephews, as well as all the local village children... It's just lovely hearing all the shouts and squeals as and when they find an egg, and no one goes away empty handed if they haven't found one.

Naturally we're all hoping for a nice sunny day. 🤞

[EmmaMary]

Gosh... Thank you so very much indeed @princeofromance for the MHO.

[Simslover92]

The most I will do is try and catch the Ten Commandments on the Saturday before Easter as a way to celebrate it lol

[Anonymous]

I am not a Christian, but I find Christian holidays very fun and peaceful. If I can find a Christian husband, I hope to fulfill everything about Christianity with him. I am very curious about Christianity.

[DryGermanGuy]

"Have you heard the good news? He is risen."

- Aaron Arkaway, The Sopranos

[FunkyMonkee]

I used to but I have no one to celebrate it with anymore.

[douride2]

No children around here so nothing happening here at Easter.

[clampfan101]

I don’t exactly have Easter parties like when I was a kid. lol But yes.

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

Yeah, and I found out that it was a surprisingly big deal when I moved to Australia.

[smahala1991]

Not as much anymore, we do get Good Friday off as a paid holiday

[jahaims]

Yeah the kids love it. We don't celebrate any of the fake religious aspects though

[beefcakebradybatson]

Yes;in fact, I like Easter more than Christmas.

[thegreenyogi]

In terms of food yes. Lol!

[MemeSupreme]

how do you celebrate it

[Nikki1989]

What's to celebrate?

[slatyb]

I give my wife some fine chocolates.

[exitseven]

yes, we always have a big dinner.

[Titanic1912]

Always do. It’s the Resurrection of Jesus Christ!

[Circushowcowboy]

No. I did when I was a kid but not anymore

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

No. It's not biblical.

[RedInnocent69]

Like eating chocolate and eggs? Sure

[Anonymous]

No, I'm not religious.

[NathanDavis]

not really

[Iron_Man]

Yes ..

[BarryLiverstone]

For sure

[seeyounexttuesday]

of course.