Just another weekend here, although I've bought Easter eggs for family members. As a child, I was brought up as a staunch Catholic so we did the whole religious thing. Those days are long gone.
I will buy an Easter Egg for dh, and he’ll probably give me one. Already gave theirs to Gdcs, who will be away - with strict instructions not to eat until Sunday!
Apart from that, a fairly quiet weekend with a roast on Sunday, but that’s not unusual here. I might make a pudding though - we rarely have one. Something easy, probably an Eve’s Pudding.
Just another long weekend for me, more to I acknowledge Spring, but nothing religious. Family tomorrow - I’ve bought little gifts and we’ll have coq au vin. More family on Monday, for roast chicken, more gifts and yes, a small chocolate egg for each DGS.
The house is decorated, incorporating my palm sunday cross, and fish pie will be eaten tomorrow with hot cross buns for elevenses. Chocolate will be eaten, egg hunts undertaken and the grandchildren will also have a new swimsuit to signify that summer is on its way. Sunday church will be followed by a meal with everyone squeezed around the table. I like to think of the festival being a mixture of the sacred and the secular.
We are not religious but we always have fish on Good Friday and Hot Cross Buns.
I don't buy eggs for our GDs (they get far too many!) but will give them a little Easter type gift. No eggs for us either but we do use it as an excuse to treat ourselves to some Lindt chocs!
For years I delivered Easter bouquets to family and older friends. Sadly most are gone now. I'll still give flowers to my daughter and aunt. I'm having the family for lunch on Easter Sunday. I used to make a large meal but this year it will be a buffet and folk can help themselves. I send Easter cards to family and give Easter eggs to the boys. They don't get many so I'm quite happy to help them indulge. As a child, I used to get a new outfit for Easter and I buy a new outfit for the boys too.
Tomorrow we will not eat any meat, Easter Sunday we will go to Mass and then eat turkey and have a chocolate pudding. Our son and DIL will be with us. We will not have Easter eggs, we have not sent eggs to our grandchildren, to the relief of their parents!
During lockdown I put a basket of chocolate outside our gate for local children to help themselves, it went down very well!
Do you celebrate Easter or is it just another weekend ?