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HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Easter everyone! What is everyone doing for Easter? What are some of your traditions?
My family dyes Easter eggs every year, and my parents ALWAYS get chocolate bunnies. (Those things are painfully addictive.) My parents also sometimes gives little gifts. My parents gave me Grace Unplugged this year, a movie I talked about awhile ago. It was really encouraging to me to see a girl who isn't so different from me try to balance her faith and her dreams. While she struggled and stumbled, she called back to God. It's a really good movie.
We also have eggs that have something inside each one that tells the story of Jesus. Like one has some leather, for the whip. One has a crown of thorns, one has a spear, one has the cross, one has rock for the boulder outside Jesus' tomb, and the final egg is gold, and is empty, to symbolize that the tomb is empty, and Christ has risen! Finally, in the evening, we have a family dinner.
So, what does everyone else do?
Also, congratulations to S.E. on getting baptized today!
submitted by Blonde Heroines Rule, age ageless, rejoicing
(April 20, 2014 - 3:05 pm)
(April 20, 2014 - 3:05 pm)
As a baptizam present, I got Faith Unplugged (the book).
Schedule for EAster:
Wzake up at six
go to sonrise service at seven breakfast at Swanton Street Diner 8-9:15
Easter story+ eggs: 9:30- 10
10-10:05- get dressed
10:15-11: practice
11-1: Churh service, getting baptized
2-7: Easter lunch+dinner+dessert
10-6- sleep
(April 21, 2014 - 7:10 am)
My family used to do stuff for Easter, but even before 2/3 of the kids in our family decided not to be Christian, we weren't particularly observant Christians. So on Easter, we used to go to church and go to an Easter egg hunt and all that. Now we just get doughnuts or something because we don't really have the energy to go to church.
(April 22, 2014 - 7:09 am)
I woke up on Easter, ate some Easter chocolate and had breakfast, then took my great gramma to church at 10:30 (sunrise was to early for her). After that we went home then went back to my great gramma's to meet her and my grandparents for Easter dinner. Congrats S.E. ! hope everyone else had a good Easter too.
(April 22, 2014 - 7:46 pm)
Quite late, I am, aren't I? Oh well. I always forget how fun Easter is until the day when we paint eggs. Because that's really fun.
In the past years, my dad and I would buy chocolate molds and make lots and lots of chocolate stuffies. This year, we didn't, because I guess he didn't have time. Oh well. But it was still fun. My sisters and I had Friday off from school (my mom's equvilent of Spring Break), so we spent it making stuff, chocolate pretzels, cookies, and little chocolates.
And then the fun part: eggs. Hard boiled eggs, dyes and crayons. Perfect. Also, in the recent years, my family has been making some of our egg dyes out of natural things, meaning not food coloring. This time, we no egg kits like we usually do, so we made blue, green, and a bright yellow with some reeeaaally old food coloring we found in the basement and a lighter yellow with tumeric and a brownish pinkish color with balsamic viniger. No red or pink, because we didn't have red food coloring and there were no beets or cranberries in the house.
We made mostly fandom eggs this year. For Doctor Who, we made the Eleventh Doctor (complete with a little constrution paper fez), the Tenth Doctor, the TARDIS and a dalek. We also made a Merlin and a dragon egg. Merlin was adorable. We made cutie mark eggs too (from My Little Pony), with Rainbow Dash's, Fluttershy's and Applejack's. Two minions from Dispicable Me were a whole lot of fun to make and so was some of the mascots from B.A.P. Of course, we also made the classics, a bunny and a chick. And a piggy-bunny (blame it on You're Beautiful). There were a whole lot more, but I can't remember them right now.
On Easter morning, my older sister and my mom hid everything out in the yard, and, equipped with baskets, we all hunted for them until we had each found our fair share. The rest of day was spent eating chocolate and playing board games and video games and watching shows. Lazying around, pretty much.
(April 24, 2014 - 2:39 pm)
Oh my gosh, you made a Merlin egg?! That's awesome!
(April 24, 2014 - 7:32 pm)
I love the fandom eggs! I usually make fandom eggs, but this year we took all our eggs to my cousins, and they wouldn't get it. Plus, they think I'm wierd enough already! (Not that fandoms are wierd, they just think they are)
(April 25, 2014 - 10:53 am)
They think fandoms are weird? O_O What do they do with themselves?
(April 25, 2014 - 1:52 pm)
Play sports and video games and watch dumb TV. The seven year old boy just told me was wired for liking Harrypotyor the other day. I just laughed and told him that he was weird because he doesn't.
(April 26, 2014 - 9:14 am)
Seriously? My gosh, the children of America are utterly degenerating. What hath we wrought?
(April 27, 2014 - 5:30 pm)
@BHR - Couldn't agree more.
I spent this Easter with my aunt and uncle who live in Washington, D.C.
They're really nice.
We ate candy and watched Winged Migration.
Also, we went to the zoo.
And then we went to Harper's Ferry and ate ice cream.
So that's all I have to say about THAT.
(May 5, 2014 - 2:10 pm)