EASTER CELEBRATIONS or not?

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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 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.

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’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.

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!

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.

Happy Easter All 🐰

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.

Quiet contemplation, tomorrow lunch with family and Easter eggs, celebrating new beginnings.

We never decorated or had new clothes for Easter. I remember once going to church on Easter Sunday. I suspect it was because we were on holiday so my mother didn't have to spend the morning cooking lunch. I was an only child so Easter lunch was just me, my parents and my grandmother. My husband and I spent several Easters in Italy and that was a great improvement. We would go to church in the morning, which got us Brownie points with the hotel owner's mother. The church was always absolutely packed and the congregation were always so friendly. Then back to the hotel for a six or seven course meal which lasted the rest of the afternoon!

I remember buying a linen suit and silk blouse one year for Easter many years ago, when we were going away.

It snowed and I was freezing!

Nothing special now that the grandchildren are all grown up.
Just a quiet weekend here. But I have bought myself an Easter egg.

Yes a new outfit paid for by my granny. Little straw hat with flowers on it and white gloves for Church. Easter cards from the family. No sweets during Lent so loved the Easter eggs even more. Tomorrow my dd is doing a family meal. Usually roast lamb but tomorrow it’s going to be a buffet as the numbers have grown. My grandsons and their partners will be there with their parents. Also my grandson and his lovely partner told me today they are expecting a baby.(Now the size of a strawberry). How’s that for a new beginning? Happy Easter everyone.

Easter was always a special time for DH and me. It was when we actually got together, and church was the last place he went to before he died.
I haven’t given Easter eggs for a while now. Sometimes money, but this year they are all grown up and away. I’ve been invited to lunch today with a new friend, so that will be a change.

The only person I used to send Easter cards to - she was a churchgoer and a truly kind woman - died a few months ago.

Easter was important when I was a child and still is. Attended a very moving Good Friday Service and an uplifting Sunday service today at my lovely village church. So good to see so many people there and to share in the joy of this wonderful day.

I remember my mum would make us hard boiled eggs which we painted and rolled down the hill, just as I did with my children and grand children, never see children doing that now
I did bake a cake yesterday and decorated it with mini chocolate eggs, I'm now sitting at my computer finishing off what eggs are left in the packet, it's a lovely day here in sw scotland , blue sky...I wish everyone a lovely easter

lovetopaint....that's great news for you...