Holidays, particularly religious ones, carry with them a lot
of memories that invoke various emotional responses.
Easter reminds me of decorating Easter eggs with my mother using the PAAZ egg dye kit. I remember seeing my grandparents every Easter at their house. We enjoyed egg hunts and Easter baskets. I have very fond church memories from various Easters. I received my first real Bible from my parents one Easter - a bright yellow "Good News" one, which still sits on my shelf today. I was baptized by my pastor on Easter Sunday, 1982. I remember big Easter musicals the weekend of Palm Sunday, singing hymns like Christ the Lord is Risen Today, and always having a new Sunday-best outfit to wear. I especially liked a green sports coat I was given when I was in about the 5th grade. Hamricks was usually the place to shop! Our church had a cross outside each year, and on Easter Sunday we would all bring fresh flowers to fill it up with color! And I recall every year ABC playing Charlton Heston's The Ten Commandments from 7pm-11pm.
My family now has some of our own holiday practices, many of them similar to those of my boyhood. We have never done the Easter Bunny with our children. We weren't terribly opposed to it, but church jobs always required one of us to be out of the house early Sunday morning before children awoke, so we made it our habit to give our children Easter baskets from us on the Saturday before Easter. We chuckled then and still do now thinking about when our then 5-year old came home from church one Easter and said, The children in Sunday School were talking about some bunny coming to their house this morning! What are they talking about?
Easter reminds me of decorating Easter eggs with my mother using the PAAZ egg dye kit. I remember seeing my grandparents every Easter at their house. We enjoyed egg hunts and Easter baskets. I have very fond church memories from various Easters. I received my first real Bible from my parents one Easter - a bright yellow "Good News" one, which still sits on my shelf today. I was baptized by my pastor on Easter Sunday, 1982. I remember big Easter musicals the weekend of Palm Sunday, singing hymns like Christ the Lord is Risen Today, and always having a new Sunday-best outfit to wear. I especially liked a green sports coat I was given when I was in about the 5th grade. Hamricks was usually the place to shop! Our church had a cross outside each year, and on Easter Sunday we would all bring fresh flowers to fill it up with color! And I recall every year ABC playing Charlton Heston's The Ten Commandments from 7pm-11pm.
My family now has some of our own holiday practices, many of them similar to those of my boyhood. We have never done the Easter Bunny with our children. We weren't terribly opposed to it, but church jobs always required one of us to be out of the house early Sunday morning before children awoke, so we made it our habit to give our children Easter baskets from us on the Saturday before Easter. We chuckled then and still do now thinking about when our then 5-year old came home from church one Easter and said, The children in Sunday School were talking about some bunny coming to their house this morning! What are they talking about?
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