Moday QOTD

Ash61612 · April 2012

Does your family have any Easter traditions? Will you continue these in your marriage?

SugarFoote · April 2012

Neither of our families have Easter traditions (well if the Easter Egg hunt at Church counts, then yes, but that's not technically "family" lol), but FI and I plan on starting our own. Maybe doing an Easter dinner and inviting both our families over and having a family egg hunt for all his nieces and nephews and our hopeful future babies

FaithCaitlin · April 2012

We do baskets and a big lunch.

We will definitely continue the baskets but I'm not sure about the big dinner.. it just is so much work and a lot of stress!

BMcLeodTeam · April 2012

There are no traditions except the egg hunt in my family. I think FI and I will be creating traditions in this case more than carrying them over

peachykeen26 · April 2012

We actually don't besides the ham.
We will probably do it until we have kids then we will make our own traditions.

GunzNRoses213 · April 2012

For some reason we always painted eggs on Good Friday, my sister wanted to paint some on Wed and I told her that was simply unexceptable.

GJones27 · April 2012

My mom used to host a typical Greek dinner with lamb and all, and we would eat tons of whatever we have fasted from. We also used to dye our eggs red and do this Greek tradition where you hit the eggs together and say in Greek, "Christ is Risen!" "Indeed He is risen." And whoever's egg doesn't crack wins. That represents the fact that Christ has broken the gates of hell, and we are reborn through it. I also love, love, love Greek Easter bread called tsoureki... it's kind of like Jewish challah I'm told. But I think it's better. We would also go to midnight mass the night before, where the lights in the church are all turned off and we light candles and sing a special Easter hymn. It represents how Christ came into hell to save us all. Very powerful.

I haven't been home for Easter in 9 years, as it's too far coast to coast. So I've been doing a lot of these traditions with friends from church. This year I won't though, as Easter comes two weeks before finals.

We would celebrate this stuff on Orthodox Easter, so it always retained the religious significance. For Western Easter, my parents would just give us chocolate bunnies, hehe, and we would do an Easter egg hunt at my non-Greek grandma's house (who's Protestant).

BluIvory82 · April 2012

When we were younger we would go to my mom's church and come home and eat dinner. This year FI went to our own church and we made dinner for my FFIL and FBIL.

Next year we plan going to our church and hosting everyone.

mrandmrsbrist · April 2012

My family always gets together for dinner. I doubt we'll continue that tradition. We like to reflect on what Easter means and everything, but we don't see a need for a big fancy dinner.

RyansBelovedBride · April 2012

We did Easter baskets you searched for when we were kids. You'd wake up and have to hunt the easter basket which the Easter bunny "hid" somewhere... now my mom makes lamb for dinner and that's all we do tradition wise, and she only started doing that since I've been an adult.

Ryan's famly just does church, I don't think they have any other traditions, though maybe they did as a kid. I was telling him how I had helped with easter eggs at church adn I could tell he didn't really approve. He wasn't rigid about it, but you know the whole Easter isn't about eggs and bunnies (which I totally agree with, but being raised with eggs and bunnies I still never thought that's what it was actually about. It's just fun.) But probably I'll just leave that be then. I'll still probably do hard boiled egg decorating with kids but we can decorate them with crosses and empty tombs. :-P

Purple&7 · April 2012

We all go to church and then to the park for a big family picnic.

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