QOTW - 5 April - Traditions
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QOTW - 5 April - Traditions
| Thu, 04-05-2007 - 8:52am |
Do you have any traditions for Passover, Easter, or celebrating spring break? How about when you were a kid? What do you have fond memories of doing?
Bink
Not really into Siggees...
Not all who wander are lost.
(J.R.R. Tolkien)

Like Xmas, Easter is a secular holiday for me.
When I was little, Mom would always make matching Easter dresses for my older sister and I.
We used to have something special and a new hat to wear to Easter Mass when I was a kid, too. We colored eggs. The Easter Bunny left baskets with yummy candy. We got together at my maternal grandma's house for a big ham dinner, all my aunts & uncles & cousins. I got to stay for the spring break week with Grandma, too. I loved staying with her! :) Spent summers with her, too, as my mom worked as well as my dad. I had lots of friends there, too, and loved staying.
Now I am no longer Christian, and celebrate Spring and the Equinox on March 21, but still do a little something on Easter as DH is still Christian. Plus it's kind of a cultural thing. :P No new clothes, hats, etc. Now that DD is grown and gone, I don't color eggs any more. I did buy some mini baskets and purple "straw" and some candy to put at each person's place for our traditional Easter ham dinner. ;) We're just having a small group, DD & her SO, and one of DH's sisters.
My UU church is having a flower ritual to celebrate Spring on Sunday. We each bring a fresh flower to place on the altar by the lit chalice. And then we each take another flower home. Tonite they are having a Passover Seder dinner and ritual and we are going to that.
Gypsy
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Blessings,
Gypsy
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We used to do a flower ritual at the local Episcopal church... They had a wooden cross with holes in it to poke the flowers through.