Easter Sunday
Mar. 27th, 2005 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
martelvoncI love Easter Sunday and not just for the reason that is most obvious to the Christian religion.
I love Easter because of all the happy childhood memories I have of the holiday. Like the year my older cousin gave my sister and I large ceramic eggs with bunny scenes inside that he had made himself. They were painted in two different colors so that they would be the same but different.
Egg hunts. Stories of the year when my dad did not count how many and then proceeded to forget where he had hidden a couple of real eggs.
P.S. under a sofa cushion is NOT a good place to hide an egg and then forget you hid it there. Just a tip mind you....
I love the sugar eggs with the little paper scenes inside. You have to peep through the small hole in the end of the egg to see the scene. That was a little bit of magic to me.
I loved the metal buckets and shovels that your easter candy came in. It's not PC to give kids DANGEROUS metal buckets that they could open a vein with don't ya know!!! Oh The Horrors of it all! PFFFTTT on them.
I miss the absolutely god awful knit and crochet poncho's we would get each year from my Grandma Larkins. Fringe and everything. The hats with the elastic thread to hold them on to your chin that drove you nuts. The white patent leather shoes that shone like glass and pinched to no end. Going to church in all your finery.
When I was a kid in Baltimore City my family attended a large Presbyterian Church so my memories of major church holidays are memories of LARGE congregations of people. Important stuff to a kid. But then most of my favorite memories of church are not totally of a religious nature but of a comfort nature.
Like summer vacation bible school. I can still get the same feeling I had 35 years ago every time I eat plain graham crackers and juice. This is still one of my favorite comfort food snacks.
But most of all Easter means spring is really here, life will pop out all over again and we survived another winter.
Everyone, have a safe and Happy Easter and Hug your family today!
I love Easter because of all the happy childhood memories I have of the holiday. Like the year my older cousin gave my sister and I large ceramic eggs with bunny scenes inside that he had made himself. They were painted in two different colors so that they would be the same but different.
Egg hunts. Stories of the year when my dad did not count how many and then proceeded to forget where he had hidden a couple of real eggs.
P.S. under a sofa cushion is NOT a good place to hide an egg and then forget you hid it there. Just a tip mind you....
I love the sugar eggs with the little paper scenes inside. You have to peep through the small hole in the end of the egg to see the scene. That was a little bit of magic to me.
I loved the metal buckets and shovels that your easter candy came in. It's not PC to give kids DANGEROUS metal buckets that they could open a vein with don't ya know!!! Oh The Horrors of it all! PFFFTTT on them.
I miss the absolutely god awful knit and crochet poncho's we would get each year from my Grandma Larkins. Fringe and everything. The hats with the elastic thread to hold them on to your chin that drove you nuts. The white patent leather shoes that shone like glass and pinched to no end. Going to church in all your finery.
When I was a kid in Baltimore City my family attended a large Presbyterian Church so my memories of major church holidays are memories of LARGE congregations of people. Important stuff to a kid. But then most of my favorite memories of church are not totally of a religious nature but of a comfort nature.
Like summer vacation bible school. I can still get the same feeling I had 35 years ago every time I eat plain graham crackers and juice. This is still one of my favorite comfort food snacks.
But most of all Easter means spring is really here, life will pop out all over again and we survived another winter.
Everyone, have a safe and Happy Easter and Hug your family today!
