Easter

[Lori]

Do you celebrate it? If you do, do you celebrate it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or both?

[Lori]

I really dislike the secular Easter. I just find it a combination of ridiculous (people-sized bunnies, really?), aesthetically annoying (I hate pastel colors), and pointless (no, my child doesn't need seventeen pounds of sugar-coated marshmellows). So I'm kind of the Easter version of the Grinch. I'll suck it up and do an egg hunt, and I might even dye some hard-boiled eggs, but that's as far as I'll go with it, and that's only to amuse Thomas.

Easter is my favorite religious holiday, though. I like Advent better than Lent in terms of church seasons, but I like Easter better than Christmas in terms of holidays.

[Sarah]

For us, Easter is just a family holiday, a chance to get together and have fun. I'm not religious myself, so I've never really celebrated it as a religious holiday. I love Easter!

[Shasta]

Both:)

[Jennee]

tash usually gets a clothing gift, a toy or special thing for a gift, and a very small amount of chocolate, and i try to go to church on easter, i think the last time i went to church was last easter

[Kristi]

Well normally both but we haven't been to church in years. Though I personally do think about and remember the religious aspect of it I guess in our house it has been mostly a secular holiday the past few years. This year we will be at Mom's and going to church and I really want to teach the boys a bit about the religious part of the holiday.

[ColleenC]

Well Megan celebrates the religious part of it at school and I have no problems doing something religious at home if she wants too, now or in the future. Right now we just celebrate the fun part of it ;) This year we are doing a small egg hunt(filling those plastic eggs with candy)and they are each getting a new bike and some other fun springy type of toys. We will only have lived in our house a week so I have to do something small LOL

[Christine]

We don't celebrate Easter, but we do celebrate Resurrection Day. It's purely a faith-based holiday and we try to stay away from all the secular aspects of it. Our church does an easter egg hunt with a scriptural message as an outreach to the community and my girls will take part in that, but that's it as far as the secular aspects go. I'm not the least bit interested in baskets and bunnies.

[Kami]

We celebrate Easter with all the fun stuff, but we also celebrate is as a religious holiday. My kids know they reason we celebrate it, but we also do the fun stuff, well just because its fun! LOL

[Joni]

We celebrate it as a religious holiday, although I imagine when we have kids we'll do the easter-egg hunts, too. Right now, though, we go to church in the evening on Good Friday, and then to a church breakfast on Easter Sunday, followed by a wonderful service on the Resurrection. We also go to a cantata in the evening.

[off-kilter]

Secular only, and rather haphazardly at that.

[gr8mommy]

We do both. The kids' baskets contain both secular and religious items, we go to church (which we do every Sunday, anyway), we spend the day with extended family and have a special dinner (usually roast lamb :feedme )

[Jessica]

We celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We do some traditional "Easter" things, like dying eggs, and giving the children a basket of little gifts (not much, just a few little things) and we go to the church egg hunt, but other than that it's all about Christ. We begin our observation on Good Friday and conclude on Easter Sunday.

[Kate]

We do the religious easter, plus eat chocolates.

We go through the whole Lenten process, so Maia knows all about Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, and Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday and Good Friday and Easter Sunday and why we do all those things, and has known about those things for a long time.

So the week after next will be busy, because we'll be off to church for a Passover dinner and a service including foot washing, then back for Friday, then back for the children's Easter service on Saturday night, and back on Sunday...and I need to sing at all of those services, so music practice sessions for the next couple of weeks are going to be long, because there is not going to be any duplication of any music in any of the services.

[Desirae]

We celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We do some traditional "Easter" things, like dying eggs, and giving the children a basket of little gifts (not much, just a few little things) and we go to the church egg hunt, but other than that it's all about Christ. We begin our observation on Good Friday and conclude on Easter Sunday.

Same here. We also do a special dinner, usually turkey.