EASTER CELEBRATIONS or not?

I always got a new outfit for Easter and have a photo of me and my best friend in our Easter outfit, straw hat and white gloves. I have kept up the tradition of buying a new outfit for my dgss. I used to deliver a bouquet of spring flowers to the women in the family but that's cut to my aunt and daughter.

Happy Easter All 🐰

Yesterday, I went for the Good Friday service. Very moving.

For the past several Easters , my middle d.I.l. does a lovely Easter Lunch for her parents and myself. But this year we are going to a local Restaurant.

It's very low key here too. I've invited my most local family for lunch and bought a few creme eggs. I don't expect they'll all come. Exams begin very soon and the teenagers have better things to do.
I have a covid booster mid afternoon so those clinics are open. Shops are open here too.
It has changed out of all recognition Bea
Hope you have a lovely day!

I’ve sent a couple of Easter cards out to dear friends who don’t live locally. I have no faith but I think it’s nice to keep the connections as it is a special time of the year for many.

Happy Easter to you Bea.

Bea65
Wishing you Easter blessings too.

I'm sorry you will spend Easter alone but hope you have a peaceful, happy day.

I just thought today that I don't send Easter cards any more. One DGC will receive money and the others Easter eggs.

I don’t recall Easter bonnets, or new clothes, but we decorated and rolled hard boiled eggs down a hill, as I did with my children and my daughter did with hers when they were younger.
Chocolate eggs for adults and children tomorrow, but at a distance on one side as they are poorly with D&V, today’s Chinese meal together here abandoned.
I did go to church as a child as my parents, particularly my mother, went regularly.

I send and receive cards, give gifts, decorate the house and make special food ( a vanilla cheesecake with chopped up mini eggs, since you ask)
It's the most important day of the year for Christians.

I was always dressed in white and a lovely boater bonnet and new white T- cross Clark’s sandals 2 sizes too big so would grow into them.. happy memories .. think other faiths are now much more celebrated in the media?

We have always celebrated Easter but have handed over the baton and DD is hosting tomorrow.Roast Lamb for 14.I have Easter Eggs for everyone.We used to get lots of Easter cards too Bea but just two this year.

Same here TillyT

I’ve family here for the Easter Bunny’s visit tomorrow. They’ll have lamb for lunch, but I don’t eat meat.

Happy Easter Bea.
We are not church-goers but when the children were young there were certainly Easter bonnets and chocolate eggs. It was a long holiday (from work) and a time we often had visitors and Roast lamb was the main Easter Sunday meal.
A traditional which has gone by the wayside.

No never really done anything for Easter except Easter egg hunts when the kids were small
Never did anything when I was a kid except had an Easter egg or two and I think I remember painting blown eggs and Easter cards but nothing else stands out in my memory

Certainly not the new clothes or visits that you all remember

Your post reminded me of my own childhood Easters, Bea, which were the same as yours. I remember wearing my best dress on Easter Sunday and the church being full of flowers. I also remember painting boiled eggs and rolling them down the grassy slope near our house. Our older relatives used to send Easter cards, which brightened up our house.

I agree it doesn't seem to be celebrated in the same way now, or perhaps now we're older with grown up children we don't make as much of it. These days, I only buy Easter eggs for the children in our family. I still cook a nice meal or buy a good quality ready meal and have an Easter walk to admire the bluebells.

Wishing you a very happy Easter!