I love the malted speckled chocolate eggs. They are the same as what was served at the last supper by Jesus hisself. True sacrament unlike Wonder Bread and Tap water.
For a remembrance of Jesus I usually google a photo of Jason Momoa. Works very well.
We'll pick them up this afternoon. Tomorrow we'll have an egg hunt and a beautiful special lunch. They are teenagers but they don't want to give up on Eater festivities with Grandma and Grandpa.
This year we won't dye eggs. They don't eat them and I don't want to waste. We've moved on to plastic eggs with money inside and lots of candy and small gifts.
I'm recovering from a broken hip, so the hiding places might not be on slopes or bumpy ground this year.
I do if someone calls me with an invite to dinner. Since I moved back to UT, it's usually been my ex along with our kids, her mother and sometimes her brother and his wife.
She told me last weekend that she's taking a trip to the holy land with a friend she had at work, and left this morning. So I guess I won't be going to dinner there. I bought some Easter peeps and opened the package a couple of days ago so they're nice and hardened before I eat them.
High Five! I love hardened marshmallow. Can't stand it when it's soft. As a small kid I found a package of hardened marshmallows in the cupboard that had a hole in the plastic bag for a long time. Changed my life forever.
We will have Eastover tomorrow, it’s what you do when you have Chritians, Jews, Agnostics and noncommittals all in one family. It will consist of too much food for adults and baskets for children.
Sunday morning is an Easter egg hunt at a farm in South Jordan--a real farm with horses, chickens, baby chicks, goats, dogs and cats. Eggs are hidden in the barn, in the tree house, the chicken coop, among the tractors, in the blossoming orchards, in the tulip garden. A real farm is a novelty for us Californians! We have the first barbecue of the year, this time under the farmhouse patio roof, but the rain won't ruin our fun.
The TBM's have always gone to the Easter egg hunt, instead of going to sacrament meeting, and they just don't mention the party to their TBM grandparents. The TBM grandparents never have conversations, anyway, so they never find out.
Yes. On a side note I miss the really big chocolate eggs we used to buy in the UK. The Easter Bunny was not a feature of Easter as I remember it in the UK. Perhaps it is now since things change.
I didn't actually celebrate either Easter or Passover this year. I've spent the past month getting over an upper respiratory infection. When I haven't been at work I've been home resting.
Otherwise, what I've done instead was play Easter Bunny just a tad. Sent Easter care packages overseas, to Alabama to my adopted family there. One to my cousin in Idaho. And my favorite nuns where I reside in upstate New York.
Missed a Seder invitation for Passover, on Passover. So instead have been noshing on deli food here at home, and trying to do some spring cleaning in lieu of cleaning out the "hametz" (a passover custom of cleaning out the leavened bread in the house.) For me cleaning house is my equivalent of that. Having not grown up with the Jewish customs I'm sort of taking liberty by adding some of my own as I go.
Since I'll be updating my kitchen floor this spring (and mudroom,) both in need of it. I've been trying to decide whether to do something with the backsplash in the kitchen. Don't want to spend a lot, and even the do-it-yourself projects can add up.
Yesterday while at home celebrating Easter by myself with both children off on their own celebrating their own traditions in faraway lands, I found an alternative that only cost me $8.00 in materials for doing my own backsplash. Brought home the tiles today, and after they air in my home for a couple of days will be ready to install (self-stick) to the existing backsplash already there (but old, and in need of repair or replacement.) So I'm saving quite a bit on that project.
That's my version of cleaning out the "hametz" in my house for Passover , which came before Easter did on the Jewish calendar. I try to observe both. Between the getting rid of the "hametz" and sending Easter care packages, was my way of observing the holiday this year.
I do not attend Christian services, nor have I in years. I don't identify with a Christian house of worship - not that I find anything wrong with them. I just don't feel at home in any of them. I feel more at ease in a Jewish house of worship so that is where I attend presently.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/23/2019 07:45AM by Amyjo.
Was going to go to Easter Vigil (a service I thoroughly enjoy) at the Episcopal Cathedral but wasn't feeling well so I stayed home.
It looks like over the next 4 to 5 months I could be feeling better or worse in cycles as some medications are adjusted. Just thought I'd through that in.