Easter!

[Gemini]

Do you have any Easter plans?

Easter seems to have almost taken me by surprise this year! No Easter eggs bought yet. The only Easter cards I bought were for my mum and on behalf of her for others later, so no cards to be bought or sent now.

I will buy the older 3 GC eggs and buy a little gift for GS3. He is 20 months old and I know they won't want him to have chocolate yet.


We will be away Easter weekend, well from Saturday. Good friends of ours have a second home in Scarborough. They will be there for a week and invited us to stay for a couple of days. Hopefully we may meet up with two other mutual friends while we are over there.
We are around Good Friday so I have messaged the DDs to say if anyone is free we are happy to host something on that day. But as yet I don't know what everyone's plans are.
We do usually get together as a family at some point over Easter, but as there is a family get together to celebrate GS2's birthday the following weekend we may not!

[Plantaholic]

I don’t buy Easter eggs now, the GGC get so many and H is so young she doesn’t need all that chocolate.

Happy Easter to you all.

[Gemini]

I don't blame you Plant. We stopped my mum buying them for her GGC as they got so many.

[Oma]

We haven’t bought Easter eggs for many years ,I think they are a waste of money .
We gave the GC money or gifts .
They get enough eggs from others ,
Now they are grown up they appreciate money more.

So far nothing planned but we normally get together at some point .
Its just another weekend to us .

[Daisy]

I've got all the GCs a small egg each, and will give them some money as well. It seems odd though, as our GSs are 19 and 20 and both working, but I didn't want to give the girls eggs and not the boys.

No plans as yet. We've got a lot on this coming week and will be happy to go with the flow over the Easter week-end. We'll probably have the girls to stay for a couple of nights the following week as they will both be on holiday.

[Nanto2girls]

I bought Easter eggs in February. I like to buy them for the novelty.
Some have said to me you can buy a box of chocolates as they are better value.
Well i can buy a box of chocolates anytime of year,but not chocolate eggs.
I bought 5, one for each son, one for each of the grandaughters and a little one for great grandson.
They share them with their partners. I will continue to buy them in the future.
No plans for us yet, for Easter.

[Gemini]

Nan2, that's what I think. I know we pay more per ounce/gram for Easter eggs than chocolate bars, but I like to get Easter eggs or bunnies at Easter.

[Gemini]

My casual 'if anyone is around feel free to come on Good Friday' has resulted in the whole family apart from GS1 (who will be away with his dad) coming! We will do a buffet.

[Sum1Ls]

I love Easter - it’s my most special time of the year. We have all the family coming 13 of us, for Easter Sunday lunch with half arriving on Thursday. On Good Friday we will join seventeen different churches of the area at Whitfield’s Mount on Blackheath for an ecumenical service and then come back home for T’s Hot Cross Buns - and they will be hot, straight out of the oven. Saturday at sundown is the most important service of the year, it’s long but beautiful and there are eighteen people joining our church after a year of preparation.

Sunday will be a lot of cooking! T and DS are doing two shoulders of lamb and lots of lamb chops on the BBQ but we’ll eat indoors as it will be chilly. For pudding there will be a Passover cake, a coconut and lime cake, a chocolate and raspberry tart and a fruit salad.

Then an Easter egg hunt for the four grandsons with an Easter box at the finish with little bits inside like a puzzle rubber, a huge die, a bouncy ball….

And then at 4.30 the boys will visit a wonderful German family over the road who decorate their house and give Easter surprises to all the children in our street who have written a little note to them (the Easter Bunnies) with their ages.

You can keep Christmas- it’s Easter for me!

[Sum1Ls]

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[Gemini]

Sum1, that sounds a lovely celebration and obviously an important time for you.

We usually do an Easter Sunday gathering with egg hunt for the children but we will be away this year.

[Oma]

Oh Sum 1 that sounds amazing , I hope you all have a wonderful time 😁

Well I succumbed and bought GS & Lucie huge Guylian Easter eggs ,
we walked past them in the supermarket and both said at the same time should we get them so it was fated😁.

[Plantaholic]

Sum1, what a lovely time for you, your family and friends.

[Daisy]

Sum1, what a wonderful family and spiritual week-end you will have. The children will carry memories of Easter with them for ever, I'm sure.

The food plans sound perfect, without all the work falling on one person's shoulders.

How heartening it must be that you will be welcoming so many new members to your Church community at a time when I know many churches of all denominations are experiencing smaller congregations.