Yesterday Scott and I were talking about how we can improve our Easter holiday traditions. We felt like there is really two holiday's being celebrated here. One involves the Easter Bunny, colored eggs, and a general euphoria about the arrival of spring. The other holiday is the resurrection of Jesus Christ.In order to separate the two we've been doing the spring holiday on Saturday and the religious holiday on Sunday. We've pulled a lot of traditions from my family with regards to the Saturday festivities primarily being that the Easter Bunny hiding a pair of everyone's shoes filled with treats (see Eve's shoe above) but we feel like we need get some more traditions for the religious side of Easter.
As it is, Sunday involves new Sunday clothes for everyone and (new this year) a middle-eastern dinner (see falafel sandwiches below). We would like to have a special breakfast Easter morning but couldn't think of anything. Do any of you have suggestions for us, either for an Easter breakfast or other traditions that your families do?
Raised in a small South Dakota mining town where he learned the value of a sturdy pickaxe and native tubers, Scott is a man's man who knows the meaning of the word testosterone. Apart from devouring freshly slain beasts of the forest, Scott enjoys sharpening his tools, lifting heavy objects, and throwing a ball at a hoop suspended ten feet off of the ground. He also enjoys Romantic Era poetry and Italian cooking.
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We have similar feelings about separating the two days of Easter. I feel it is similar to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, just flip-flopped. We had breakfast of freshly baked hot-cross buns, eggs, and Horizon Organic chocolate milk (a treat for all!). Each plate had a wrapped gift on it with new church clothes inside, symbolizing new life and making the kids extra excited to go to church. We grilled salmon for dinner, but I'm thinking your mid-Eastern food looked pretty tasty. Sunday night we lit a fire in the fireplace which makes anything feel festive, then sang Easter hymns and read the Resurrection story in the New Testament. We finished off the night with a slice of coconut cake. It was nice. I think next year I will add the more authentic meal for dinner, and maybe pull out my Handel's Messiah CD. It is such beautifully inspired music about Christ, and seems fitting for Easter as well as Christmas.
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