One of the things I used to hate about Easter when the children were at school was the Easter hat parades. Being a non crafty person the mere mention of hat parade or fancy dress was enough to send me into despair.
Easter eggs always took a secondary role in Easter celebrations. Easter Eggs or bunnies never appear till Easter Sunday morning. Having two children who were allergic to chocolate when young always put a damper on it. Maybe that’s one of the reasons we never went overboard about Easter eggs.
Yes, I tried carob and candy eggs but it’s not the same. And then there were problems at school with teachers who thought they were being kind and handed out chocolate eggs without checking first if children could have them. It’s hard to take one off a child after they’ve been given it. Fortunately our children outgrew the chocolate allergy fairly young. Then they got, not a basket of eggs, not even a lot of eggs but one little egg and a bunny.
Why a chocolate bunny? Because it put him in his place and was a fun thing of Easter but not something real. We never mentioned Easter bunnies in any other context with our kids. Of course, there’s something nice about chomping on chocolate bunny ears. Even Mick’s and my bunnies come as a couple.
Another married couple I know with no kids, the husband hides the eggs. She finds them. Then they share them.
A friend I knew years ago once gave me a blown and hand painted egg delicately painted with a scene of the cross and a bible verse. It was a beautiful reminder of the true meaning of Easter. I had it for many years bit eventually it broke in one of our many moves.
It’s also good to connect with our family and for many families who no longer live as close to each other as they used to in our parents or grandparents’ time. Easter is a chance to do that, given the four day break. We sometimes see our son and his family or our daughter and her husband over Easter. But even that is limited at times because all our families are very involved in church services over the Easter weekend.
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