Welcome back to O&A! :-)
Our family went on a brief vacation this spring break out to the countryside. There was a short family reunion even! My, it was lovely out there! We went on a hayride (minus the hay because so many have allergies) at night in the pitch dark...we just stopped in one of the pastures and listened to the night noises and looked at the beautiful clear skies and stars shining so brightly!! Wish I had a better camera to show how gorgeous it was out there! :-) Really makes you remember how big God is!
There was a very old tree (actually three that grew into each other) right near the house out there, the branches got so large and heavy and weak they had to be cut down (I'll post a picture later, it's on my cell phone)...anyways, there was a huge pile of branches, so a bonfire was held! The kids loved it, a lot of family members and friends arrived and we had a great visit catching up on things, then eating hot dogs and hamburgers grilled by the bonfire...a wonderful experience for all the kids and grown ups too! :-)
Now that I'm back home I realized, YIKES! Easter is just a few weeks away!
We celebrate "HE IS RISEN!", the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, at church during
Easter services and activities, but we also have "The Easter Bunny" ;-)
bring Easter baskets the night before which 'he' hides around the house.
On Easter morning before church the kids go on a hunt for them. Once they find
them they can have a piece or two of candy (don't want them bouncing off the
walls in Sunday School, LOL!) and the rest is saved until later. After church
we have an Easter egg hunt in our back yard (used to be hidden by the "Easter
Bunny" but now Tweenie and her friends have that honor) with 2 prize eggs
with a dollar in coins in them. Careful monitoring of the twins' finds helps
make sure both get about an equal amount of Easter eggs, and both get a
prize egg!
Last year the twins were too young, and Tweenie 'too old' (her words) to dye real eggs
and decorate them, but this year we are going to try it the day before Easter.
Both kids are very much into art now, and love coloring with markers,
glitter, etc. Can't wait to see what they come up with!
What about your family traditions? That is if you celebrate Easter, I know
some folks don't. What kind of candies are your favorite? When I was a kid I enjoyed
the chocolate Easter bunnies, eating those long ears first! :-) Another
favorite was the coconut Easter eggs, my dad would slice those big ones up
for all of us to share, I remember how good they tasted. They haven't made
them like that for years now, they simply don't taste the same to me. Maybe
because makers are using cheaper chocolate or something...after visiting
Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco several times leaves the rest behind, LOL!
So, those are my faves, what are yours? And what do you do with the
wrappers? My kids love the shiny foil kind and would save them forever,
but we trash them, LOL. You can't really glue them to collages or anything
but they sure would be pretty! Can you believe I've heard that some ADULTS
actually have candy wrapper collections?? And not just pretty foil wrappers
from Easter, but from everyday candy bars and candy? How goofy is that?
Saving trash, hoping to sell them on ebay or something someday? LOL, I
personally don't think there's a market for such things, but in this world,
who knows? Still, saving trash, literal trash, after eating a candy bar? ;-p
Oh, well, whatever floats their boats! :-)
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Off you go, then, peeps (pun intended, LOL) get to opining! ;-)
