Happy Easter!
We all have our reasons for celebrating or not celebrating Easter. Today, Happily Ever After Authors are sharing how they celebrate the day and why.
Bekki Lynn: As a child, I used to go to sunrise service, then home to hunt for easter eggs and check out the goodies in the Easter basket. Today, and for many years, the heart of my Easter celebration is my family. Like Christmas, there is a giddy, childlike excitement about putting together the baskets for candy and special gifts I search out for each and every person. The joy of the kids is every bit as jubilant as it is on Christmas morning. I hide eggs in our front and back yard, some easy to find, others not so easy to find. It turns into a mental challenge as we throw out clues that make them think; like puzzles. There is a lot of laughter, a lot of fun jibing. Once our home fun is finished, we hook up with the rest of the family for either brunch or dinner, whatever grandma decides she wants to do. For us, Easter gives us another day where we know we'll all be together; unless family from out of state is visiting, it's our first chance since Christmas with everyone having busy lives. It's all about family and the love of being together.
Happy Easter!
Bekki
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Savanna Kougar ~ As a kid, growing up, I had some of the best Easter days ever, thanks to my parents. It was about family, everyone being together and eating that specially prepared dinner. Oh, the smiles and the smells. For several years my very talented mother would make a bunny cake, a rabbit face decorated with food-colored coconut frosting and jelly beans. Yum!
Early in the day, me and my siblings would paw through our Easter baskets gobbling the goodies or trading them... one of the advantages of a large family. Before Easter, there was always the egg dyeing, one of my favorite things to do. Nothing like a beautifully colored egg. I would feel entranced once we'd finished, and just sit and look at them.
These days, it's the joys of nature, right outside my door on Easter, that make me feel the most spiritual, the most connected to everyone and everything on Mother Earth.
Have a Joyous Easter~
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Lindsay Townsend ~ These days I celebrate Easter as the start of the New Year proper, with the growing plants and newly-born animals and birds. Every day the light grows stronger and the flowers begin to bloom and the birds sing and begin their courtship. To me it's a time of hope and renewal.
As a child I was less focused on nature or church and more, I'm afraid, on the chocolate eggs I might receive! I especially loved the extra-special eggs my parents bought us from the local chocolate shop, Thorntons. Their chocolate was always very silky smooth and luxurious and our eggs were always signed with our own names - in pink or white icing sugar. I still have fond memories of those eggs now...
Lindsay
We all have our reasons for celebrating or not celebrating Easter. Today, Happily Ever After Authors are sharing how they celebrate the day and why.
Bekki Lynn: As a child, I used to go to sunrise service, then home to hunt for easter eggs and check out the goodies in the Easter basket. Today, and for many years, the heart of my Easter celebration is my family. Like Christmas, there is a giddy, childlike excitement about putting together the baskets for candy and special gifts I search out for each and every person. The joy of the kids is every bit as jubilant as it is on Christmas morning. I hide eggs in our front and back yard, some easy to find, others not so easy to find. It turns into a mental challenge as we throw out clues that make them think; like puzzles. There is a lot of laughter, a lot of fun jibing. Once our home fun is finished, we hook up with the rest of the family for either brunch or dinner, whatever grandma decides she wants to do. For us, Easter gives us another day where we know we'll all be together; unless family from out of state is visiting, it's our first chance since Christmas with everyone having busy lives. It's all about family and the love of being together.
Happy Easter!
Bekki
_______________
Savanna Kougar ~ As a kid, growing up, I had some of the best Easter days ever, thanks to my parents. It was about family, everyone being together and eating that specially prepared dinner. Oh, the smiles and the smells. For several years my very talented mother would make a bunny cake, a rabbit face decorated with food-colored coconut frosting and jelly beans. Yum!
Early in the day, me and my siblings would paw through our Easter baskets gobbling the goodies or trading them... one of the advantages of a large family. Before Easter, there was always the egg dyeing, one of my favorite things to do. Nothing like a beautifully colored egg. I would feel entranced once we'd finished, and just sit and look at them.
These days, it's the joys of nature, right outside my door on Easter, that make me feel the most spiritual, the most connected to everyone and everything on Mother Earth.
Have a Joyous Easter~
________________
Lindsay Townsend ~ These days I celebrate Easter as the start of the New Year proper, with the growing plants and newly-born animals and birds. Every day the light grows stronger and the flowers begin to bloom and the birds sing and begin their courtship. To me it's a time of hope and renewal.
As a child I was less focused on nature or church and more, I'm afraid, on the chocolate eggs I might receive! I especially loved the extra-special eggs my parents bought us from the local chocolate shop, Thorntons. Their chocolate was always very silky smooth and luxurious and our eggs were always signed with our own names - in pink or white icing sugar. I still have fond memories of those eggs now...
Lindsay
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