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Thursday, March 28, 2013
RB'S QUESTION OF THE DAY: March 28, 2013: When you were a child, how did your family celebrate Easter? Did your family have any special traditions, play any special games, etc. for Easter??
When you were a child, how did your family celebrate Easter?
Did your family have any special traditions, play any special games, etc. for Easter??
-First we got dressed for church cause once the activity started, it was harder to get all six of us to settle down enough to get dressed. -Then we had Easter Egg hunts around the house; one year we found one behind the couch the following July. After that, our Mom made a list of where she hid them. She also hid our Easter Baskets, and the older kids got treasure maps to find them. That was fun! She thought it made the Easter fun last longer, and it did! -At some point, we had breakfast, although with all the candy in the baskets, I can't imagine how they got us to eat breakfast food. -Then we went to church; if we were lucky, there was no snow and we could wear our Easter clothes without snowsuits, but it was sometimes a 50/50 chance. -While we were at church, our Dad made our Easter dinner of ham, often with a side of rice pudding with pineapple and raisins which he loved, mashed potatoes, a toss salad and some kind of canned vegetable, maybe corn. And I usually made ham gravy even though Dad repeatedly said you couldn't make gravy from ham because it was too salty and fatty, and Mom would say to let me make it because my ham gravy was good. (That was the usual repeated conversation through the years about ham gravy, now I know many people who make it. Who knows, maybe I was a Southerner at heart even then. LOL)
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-First we got dressed for church cause once the activity started, it was harder to get all six of us to settle down enough to get dressed.
-Then we had Easter Egg hunts around the house; one year we found one behind the couch the following July. After that, our Mom made a list of where she hid them. She also hid our Easter Baskets, and the older kids got treasure maps to find them. That was fun! She thought it made the Easter fun last longer, and it did!
-At some point, we had breakfast, although with all the candy in the baskets, I can't imagine how they got us to eat breakfast food.
-Then we went to church; if we were lucky, there was no snow and we could wear our Easter clothes without snowsuits, but it was sometimes a 50/50 chance.
-While we were at church, our Dad made our Easter dinner of ham, often with a side of rice pudding with pineapple and raisins which he loved, mashed potatoes, a toss salad and some kind of canned vegetable, maybe corn. And I usually made ham gravy even though Dad repeatedly said you couldn't make gravy from ham because it was too salty and fatty, and Mom would say to let me make it because my ham gravy was good.
(That was the usual repeated conversation through the years about ham gravy, now I know many people who make it. Who knows, maybe I was a Southerner at heart even then. LOL)
How about you?
With love.
God bless.
RB
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