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How do you celebrate Easter? - 3/10/2008 11:32:17 AM
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sajenni2
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It seems there are as many ways to celebrate Easter as there are families out there. How do you pass on the meaning of Easter to your children?
Do you do Easter egg hunts or the Easter bunny? Do you observe Lent or have special Holy Week devotions? Do you attend a sunset Easter vigil service or dress up Sunday morning? Please share!
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RE: How do you celebrate Easter? - 3/10/2008 4:38:44 PM
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roligirl
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We celebrate our Savior's resurrection with church, pretty spring dresses (for the girls), and a nice family meal.
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RE: How do you celebrate Easter? - 3/12/2008 10:53:58 PM
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Karaboo2
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We also give kites to the kids, as three of them are very much allergic to chocolate, soy, and artificial colouring (hives at the minimum). We do an egg hunt around the house, but they are the plastic eggs with various things inside (such as cross-shaped stickers, fun erasers, etc) ... that way they don't feel centred out if a kid at play group asks them if they found lots of eggs, etc.
They know the Easter story through and through. The kids know that God is real, and Jesus really did die on a cross, so the thought that other kids (and grownups, for that matter) think it's just a fictional story totally blows their minds!
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RE: How do you celebrate Easter? - 3/13/2008 9:36:53 AM
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sen10tious
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We did a lot for Easter when the kids were little. It came about this way --
Our children were the only grandkids on my husband's side of the family, and for over a decade they were the only ones on my side as well. When they were small and all the grandparents, great aunts, and aunts were alive and healthy, Christmastime was a glut. If a five year-old runs out of energy opening gifts, they have too many! That was the day I decided there had to be a better way. I changed our budgeting and stopped buying the kids the Christmas gifts I wanted to get them. Yes, I felt a tiny bit of loss over that; what parent doesn't enjoy getting their kids Christmas gifts? But we redirected the bulk of what we'd have spent then toward Easter. It was the practical choice, especially since we lived in the Snow Belt at that time. By spring the Christmas mittens & sweaters would not be used. And they would need some outdoor toys, since tricycles with studded tires aren't a hot-ticket item. And then really, I know without Jesus' birth, the death and Resurrection would not have happened, but isn't the Blood Atonement a little higher in priorities to emphasize to our kids than Peace on Earth? I decided it was. How long does earth-life last? How long does Eternity? Furthermore, the church we attended at the time did low-key Easter. They did not even change the music!
So we did egg dying, cookie baking, egg hunting, house decorating, jello egg-molding, hiding of baskets with chocolate bunnies (and often with an inexpensive kite), special stories, making/writing/sending cards to grandparents (yeah, a bit of school stuff), glazed ham with the fixin's, a new outfit, and a major toy.
Ooo, I need to set up the egg tree, I'm late this year. No, Easter is early. The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228, which is 220 years from now. The last time it was this early was 1913. The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was the year 1818. So, no one alive today, has or will EVER see it any earlier than This Year!
< Message edited by sen10tious -- 3/13/2008 9:43:52 AM >
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I can easily make the Kite into an object lesson!
If we ever did an egg hunt it was because there was one at the church; we didn't seek them out, though. 
