How do you acknowledge Easter.

We don’t eat fish or pork, but have just bought some hot cross buns.😃

Struggle a bit with Easter. The crucifiction so sad, why did Christ have to die for my sins? I don't know.
Now its like mini Christmas....What are you doing for Easter? Did you have a good Easter?
I'm lucky but lots of people are lonely and have nobody.

Church, Holy week events. Lovely meal after on Sunday.

We are not religious.
It’s nice to have a long weekend with my family.
I’m off today, tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday & Monday.
Husbands finishes school today for the Easter Holidays.
Nice to not be at work 😊

I have fish every Friday. Usually go to middle son’s for Easter, but this year, they are going with friends to a big youngsters’ event. Instead, d.I.ls parents and I will go to them on Friday. She is doing lamb for the men but the ladies will have fish. It will be a real sacrifice watching them have lamb (my favourite meat).
Don’t know what I’m doing on Easter Sunday. I’m sure I’ll have an invite to either my daughter’s house or youngest son’s, unless they have other plans. I’m easy. My neighbour is on her own. I might pop in there and we’ll order in a Chinese 😂

CrazyH a Chinese? Sounds good to me.😃

Our church is doing a Walk of Witness for Good Friday tomorrow, but with the way it's been raining, if it's like that tomorrow I doubt if anyone will witness us witnessing! Still, it's the thought that counts.

GC have got to fit in seeing so many relatives over Easter that I think we'll be having them for Monday - never mind, we'll have a good meal and a happy day with them then.

I am not a Christian, but I do see Easter as the welcoming of spring and the end of winter - “ Ostara”

I will be making hot cross buns in the morning and we have lamb on Sunday. This year my DD is away for a break and my DS has a day out planned so we will be on our own for the first time since for ever I think which will be nice.

Mel1967

We are not religious.
It’s nice to have a long weekend with my family.
I’m off today, tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday & Monday.
Husbands finishes school today for the Easter Holidays.
Nice to not be at work 😊

Forgot to add
Husband playing golf tomorrow, Saturday & Sunday.
So maybe just me and the dog 😂

We used to send Easter cards at one time. We always have fish on Good Friday and have family over on Easter Sunday for an informal meal along with Simnel cake and a chocolate dessert and everyone enjoys Easter chocolates or Easter eggs. It is always special.

It has become like mini Christmas hasn't it with cards and gifts but hopefully better weather. I don't do either.

Painted real boiled eggs for breakfast. Egg rolling down Arthur's seat was a popular tradition when we lived in Edinburgh.

2 of my DGC are coming tomorrow for the weekend. We may make cupcakes. They don't eat Simnel cake though I love it.

Happy Easter everybody

Ps to my earlier post. Every year I make a traditional Simnel cake for the DDs.

I’ll be going to DD’s for hot cross buns and coffee tomorrow morning. Her in-laws will be arriving later so I shall make myself scarce until Sunday Lunch when we will have roast lamb and swap Easter eggs.

I have my fingers crossed for some decent gardening weather on Saturday and Monday..

I enjoy Easter, as others have said it's less stressful than Christmas and means Spring is around the corner.

I don't remember Easter cards being a thing when I was a child, but my mum and aunties adopted the custom later. One stressful year as a working single mum I decided not to bother with the commercial Easter card exchange. Mum was most upset declaring "no Easter cards!" I hadn’t realised how important this was to her, so always sent one after that. Such a small thing to make her happy.

Both DS1 & 2 and partners here on Sunday for roast lamb, Easter egg exchange and daft Easter egg hunt (all over 30 years old now!)

CrazyH may I ask why the men are eating lamb and the women fish?

My Easter plans have been changed because of the death of a good friend's brother. She is from a large family, lives in another province, but her brother who lives in town died last week and the funeral will be on Easter Sunday at 2pm, with a gathering from 3-5. I found this very odd, especially for Catholics, but the fellow that died was very good friends with the priest, so allowances were made.

She and her DH will stay with other family here, but we will host two of her daughters, and 4 granchildren, and their dog at our house since we have extra bedrooms.

I couldn't find any way to host my family for dinner or lunch, so have postponed it.

But since we will have visiting children, I think I will have a little egg hunt in the back yard for the visiting children plus my own grandchildren, and serve the adults coffee and treats, but not a full on brunch.

I was disappointed since we have a 2 week old new grandson, and it would be our first family dinner all together, but hey-ho, roll with it, and the grieving family is now the focus, with love and understanding.

Church tonight with Holy Communion (Maundy Thursday) and at my son’s tomorrow for home made hot cross buns (he makes them, I only ever buy them) then tomorrow evening going to the theatre for see Jesus Christ Superstar, one of my favourite musicals. My husband isn’t going and I’m going with our son, his partner, and my grandson. DH is dog sitting! Saturday we’re out with our other son and his wife for Thai food - my birthday present from them (birthday was last week.) Easter Sunday will be church in the morning and then both sons and families are coming for traditional roast lamb and Simnel cake. At some point we’ll speak to our daughter and grandchildren in New Zealand. We left Easter eggs for them when we were there recently, as the eggs were already in the shops with Easter being early this year. We also left chocolates for our daughter. We’ll give an egg to each couple (between them) and an Easter egg to our grandson. This morning a parcel arrived from our daughter (Moonpig) with chocolates (see picture) and a gorgeous card. Inside our six year old grandson had written the Easter story, in which he declared that after Mary discovered Jesus was gone from the toom (tomb) she fainted and the apostles had a cup of tea - who knew?

Day out shopping with my DD on Friday.... Little egg hunt for my 3 GD on Sunday and a family roast dinner cooked by DD and SIL ...but just nice to be off work rest of time...nothing to do....and all day to do it

That simnel cake looks very special grandmama

No meat tomorrow, just a very simple meal of potatoes and vegetables. Sunday will be an outdoor church service at sunrise. Later we will take our oiled eggs and roll them on a local grassy slope. Fancy dinner on Monday.

I have been invited to Sunday lunch by my son’s in-laws.
( There will be roast lamb. A first, and a very kind gesture, now I am on my own. The grandchildren, young adults, will be there. My grandson’s girlfriend expressed surprise that her boyfriend was not available as it is a family day. She asked’Why? what is Easter’ to everyone’s surprise, but then we are all Christians, even though the younger ones no longer practise.
I have given up on Easter eggs, but I had better buy some chocolates or something.

Jaxjacky - because I don’t eat meat on Fridays (my mother was a devoted Catholic) and it so happens that d.i.l. and her mother also prefer fish . My son and his f.i.l. prefer meat. I hope that answers your question…. bit complicated and extra work for d.i.l. who will be doing the cooking 😂
P.S. Catholics don’t usually eat meat on Fridays because Jesus was crucified on a Friday (a belief).

Its just another weekend to me.

Will go to the allotment if it’s not raining ….
no little ones to buy Easter eggs for, so just another day
(I ve never really understood what not eating meat has to do with death… I’m not knocking the belief just wondering why ?

Church today (Good Friday) then again on Sunday. I’ve only bought Easter eggs for our youngest granddaughter aged 5 this time. I think not eating meat on Good Friday is because Jesus gave his flesh for us and died. Good Friday is a remembrance of that day. An old custom. We are having the youngest daughter and granddaughter round for lunch tomorrow but a quiet weekend otherwise.