Easter Traditions

RIngReady

I grew up in a half Catholic half Jewish family, so Easter was always pretty low-key. Get a small basket with some candy, take pictures outside in new dresses, and have an early dinner with extended family. 

My husband and I are both Catholic, and so want Lo to grow up with some special Easter memories. 

What traditions do you ladies have, or what made Easter special to you?

cafecreme

My parents raised me Lutheran, and every Easter Sunday we would go to church, and afterwards have brunch at a local diner. We opened our baskets and then went to my grandmom's for a huge egg hunt (all the cousins participated), then hit the "easter pinata" and then had early dinner. My grandmom and grandpop would add some money to different eggs, in the end, each cousin had about 5$ to spend on whatever. 

Now that I'm older, I don't practice a faith, and neither does DH. Every year since we've been together we have brunch at a hotel with DH's moms family, then still go to my grandmom's for dinner. No egg dying this year, or egg hunt because of how small she is, but we did make her an easter basket. 

nikel13

Dying eggs, family time, sunrise service, my aunt used to get a piñata every year (random, I know), my town also had an Easter pageant every few years that we were always involved in (it's out on a hill towards evening and goes from the birth to the death and resurrection of Jesus)

cafecreme

nikel13 said:

Dying eggs, family time, sunrise service, my aunt used to get a piñata every year (random, I know), my town also had an Easter pageant every few years that we were always involved in (it's out on a hill towards evening and goes from the birth to the death and resurrection of Jesus)

We had a pinata too..not weird to me! lol

itsStackie

Easter was usually around spring break, so sometimes we were out of town or had my cousins in town. But we always had an egg hunt, went to church, then a big lunch. We also got baskets, my parents still get us baskets, usually just has Cadbury creme eggs and a movie.

DH's family has a large outdoor egg hunt. And it some how became a tradition for them to crack an egg on a guests head at this large event. I was not happy when this happened while we were dating. :-w

No longer the best

We stopped going to church when I was young.  We always did a dinner with extended family, an Easter egg hung and got a new outfit and a toy.  

I am feeling kinda guilty I didn't do anything really for M and am now thinking of hitting up the sales on stuff Mon/Tue. 

weddinginthecove

We always did a big easter egg hunt at home (which I still loved as a teenager), followed by a big Newfoundland cooked dinner with turkey. Tomorrow I have plans to stay at home and cook a ham, writing this is making me second guess my decision. ETA: autocorrect just made me say big wasted egg hunt. I laughed out loud when I read it, that would have been mildly inappropriate.