Do you celebrate Easter?

I'm with Churchview and Norah. It's the most important festival for Christians and I love it, celebrating with flowers, decorating the house, making special meals and buying chocolate eggs - except for the youngest GC as mummy and daddy have charged me with making something for her with less sugar.
I was very moved one year watching the Easter story enacted in Trafalgar Square.

I usually go my middle son’s for Easter Sunday, and it’s usually a Roast Lamb Dinner

We are not a religious family, so no. But we do sometimes have a family meal. We don't usually buy Easter eggs, or only one of those small chocolate rabbits.

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It’s a North East (England) thing, Allira.

www.beamish.org.uk/events/carlin-sunday/

They look very unappetising, but they’re quite tasty, actually! They can have an unfortunate side effect though, which leads to the day after sometimes being called (ahem) Farting Monday.

I've never heard of Carlin Sunday or carlins

Are they not even allowed chocolate eggs? Poor kids!

The OP’s grandchildren are still very young though - I remember a time when ours had Easter eggs left at Christmas, but they certainly wouldn’t last so long now!

I love Easter and all its rituals - the pancakes, observing Lent, Church service, the hot cross buns, eggs, family get-togethers with egg hunts. We’re having an afternoon tea theme this year instead of a roast, which will make life easier. We even have carlins on Carlin Sunday (though as ever I’ll have to check which Sunday it is ). And the weather’s usually decent - what’s not to like?

Anniebach

I so miss Good Friday and Easter Services, Stations of The Cross, Midnight Mass, Easter Morning And yes Easter Eggs.

I remember, a couple of years running, seeing the stations of the cross, a recreation of the first Good Friday, Jesus carrying his cross, it was very moving and very graphic, of his sufferings, through the old town of Hastings. Finishing with a church service.

Yes- both a religious and a family time for me. So much less stressful than Christmas and the weather is usually much better!

We have chocolate eggs but I'm getting less fussed about this now- would rather have a good bottle of wine lol!

We don’t celebrate the religious element, but we see it as a Spring festival, with the Easter eggs being a symbol of new life.

Babs03

We don’t, and never really have. The GCs aren’t allowed chocolate and we’re not religious, so we get together with the family for the bank holiday weekend and have a nice meal, but we tend to do that anyway on a bank holiday.

Are they not even allowed chocolate eggs? Poor kids! The chocolate egg from my nana was the highlight of my Easter when I was a child. Easter was special - Church in the morning to honour the day, then home to a roast lamb dinner.. Then an egg hunt in the garden with those tiny solid eggs, and being allowed some of my big chocolate egg throughout the rest of the day. Bliss, and magical memories for me of those happy peaceful times.

I so miss Good Friday and Easter Services, Stations of The Cross, Midnight Mass, Easter Morning And yes Easter Eggs.

Not as a religious event, but as a BH and in the hope of a decent Spring/Summer.
I buy my 2DGS small chocolate eggs and put money in their banks, while my DDs and their DHs are given a bottle or two of their favourite tipple. If the weather’s good enough, an Easter egg hunt around my garden.

I love it when Easter is as late as possible, more chance of some better weather.
Church for just me in the morning. Dinner is always roast lamb and usually have at least some family joining us. I love Simnel cake but haven't made one in years, and the shop bought ones just aren't the same.

I don’t like it when Easter is as late as this.

It is late this year
But it is a moveable feast.

Yes, we will. We used to always go to church on Easter Sunday and sometimes I would go on Good Friday for a while to keep vigil, however, not so often now.
Hot Cross buns on Good Friday of course.

Chocolate eggs, an Easter egg hunt and Easter Sunday dinner (🤞 someone else will be cooking it!).

Do we celebrate Easter? Yes.

Ash Wednesday, 40 days of Lent, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Holy Saturday, Good Friday, then Easter Sunday.

Yes definitely. When the children were all at home I used to make dozens of hot cross buns. Simnel cake was strictly for Mothering Sunday. With one set of GC we still paint hard boiled eggs and having rolling races in the garden. And a treasure hunt for the tiny wrapped Lindt eggs.
I don’t like it when Easter is as late as this.

Churchview

We celebrate. Lots of flowers in the house, a special meal, chocolate eggs. I enjoy it more than Christmas - all the fun, less pressure.

That’s what DD always says. Her in-laws visit for Easter rather than Christmas so I tend to back off for most of it except for Easter Sunday when we are all together for roast lamb. I’m glad I don’t have to do the cooking any more.
It’s a real bonus if the weather is nice.

You do not have to guard against too much sugar. If the whole family eat a fresh well balanced diet, they will not eat too much sugar.

Stopping children eating sugar, obviously I am not talking about really little ones, will only lead to them seeing sweet foods as 'naughty' and binging on them behind their parents backs whenever they can access them. Which is counter productive.

When mine were small, early 1970s, we used to go to an old fashioned sweet shop, the kind with lots of penny sweets. I would give both children 10p. They would spend it all on sweets and then they would go home and eat them all. They usually did not then want their lunch, but after that they cleaned their teeth and by supper time were hungry for a proper meal.

They are in their 50s now but neither has ever been a sweet or biscuit eater.

Yes we always celebrate Easter.

Witzend

I feel sorry for the Gcs.

They are babies, well one is 20 months, the other 13 months and the oldest 2 and a half.
So is a no chocolate rule. But my grown daughters are adamant that too much sugar is something they will continue to guard against and I can see their reasoning.

We do. I am very lucky that my DD lives nearby and every year she organises an easter egg hunt. She is pretty strict about sweets and chocolate most of the year but birthdays, Christmas and Easter are exceptions.

Yes - I go to Church. The children have Easter eggs on Easter sunday
We have a family gathering, if it’s at mine I cook lamb
And of course the Good Friday yomp up our hill

We celebrate. Lots of flowers in the house, a special meal, chocolate eggs. I enjoy it more than Christmas - all the fun, less pressure.

I feel sorry for the Gcs.