What are you doing for Easter?

[applegrove]

My sister and family are coming to my parents house tomorrow. I've hidden Easter Eggs for the littlest child. Should be lots of fun. Dinner Sunday.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I'm going to my daughter's house. We're going to help 3 little boys (2-3 yo and 1-5yo) color

Easter eggs. Sunday we are having a family dinner and Easter egg hunts for the young'ns. We'll have 4 generations present.

[femmocrat]

2. Having a family dinner here.

I started cleaning today! I'll shop tomorrow and cook on Saturday. It's not a big deal, but I have let things "go" since Christmas.

[applegrove]

3. I'm very relaxed when it comes to decor. A friend of my mom's stopped by for a vist and returned

later with all sorts of flowers: bursting tulips, daffodils, lilies, I think a lilac type flower, and one more. (I had, in the mean time, bought a tulip plant that had not yet flowered....that's just how I roll). The place now looks fantastic: like a greenhouse and smells wonderful. We are lucky to have such an angel in our lives I know.

[femmocrat]

4. That sounds lovely!

Our flowers are outdoors, but most are past their blooming stage now. It got warm here in March and everything bloomed early.

My DIL usually brings me some fresh flowers on the holidays. She is a sweetheart!

[riderinthestorm]

5. Working. I give everyone else the day off and work all holidays.

I'm pretty sure my employees love this....

[applegrove]

6. You are a dream-boss!!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Singing a couple of anthems at church and then

going to a family brunch.

(For the record, we're singing C.V. Stanford's "Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem" and John Taverner's "Dum Transisset Sabbatum."

[applegrove]

8. Sounds like fun.

[Wait Wut]

16. As a nonChristian...

...that's what I love most about your religion, the music. I especially love gospel, though Handel's Messiah still brings tears to my eyes. Oh, and I'm a sucker for Ave Maria, as well. When done well, I sob like a baby. The two you have here are just beautiful.

Have a wonderful time and Happy Easter!

[mrmpa]

9. Having 2 of 3 brothers over.........

1 brother & his wife and 2 kids are going to visit the youngest at college, he doesn't get enough time off to get home. The two brothers coming over will bring their wives and 4 kids (17 to 22 years old). Mom who turned 82 this past Monday, will do the cooking of the ham, kielbasi and chicken cordon bleau along with potato salad, sweet potatoes & some veggies.

A friend is coming who works at 3 p.m. Mom will send her to work with a good lunch bag. My friends who are Jewish will stop over and Mom is making a chicken entree for them.

I went to a candy shop & bought a fruit & nut egg along with some other chocolates. Tomorrow I stop at the bakery to pick up the bunny cake, which is a while almond batter with a butter cream icing.

Then about 7 p.m. on Easter I will be napping.

My brothers do the catholic easter mass, Mom & I don't.

[applegrove]

10. mmm. Bunny Cake with buttercream icing.

[Iggo]

11. I dunno. When's Easter?

[siligut]

14. For 2012, it is on April 8th

This coming Sunday.

[wysimdnwyg]

12. I'm taking my rider's course all weekend

I bought the mid-life-crisis toy, I really should learn how to ride it.

[Wait Wut]

13. Oh crap, I forgot.

There's only one Christian in our house, my husband, but my son and I have always celebrated the holiday because it's fun.

Gotta go buy eggs and stuff after work. Bleh. I forgot last year and I had to go to 4 different stores to find dye. Finally found it at some little drug store that doesn't exist anymore. Crap. Crap. Crap.

I guess I'll buy a ham, too. Get everyone some baskets. Crap. Means I have to drive all the friggin' way to World Market. Crap.

Sometimes being the mom/head of household is just stressful. I can totally relate to Lois on Family Guy on that one Christmas special where she just loses it completely.

To all my Christian DUer friends, acquaintances, etc. Happy Easter! Glad he came out of the whole thing okay!

[siligut]

15. World Market has the best Easter stuff

I used to shop there, but don't bother anymore now that the kids are grown.

[Wait Wut]

18. They do.

My son is almost 30 and married. No kids. I still buy him toys, give him Easter baskets, make him leave cookies for Santa, etc. His wife is Okinawan and just loves it, so she gets the same treatment. This will be her first Easter. She's incredibly artistic so I'm expecting it to take her about an hour to decorate one egg.

I have two step-sons that are all around the same age as my son. They all giggled like little kids when we spent Easter together a few years ago. They hadn't gotten baskets in years.

[HappyMe]

17. lol!

[Wait Wut]

19. LOL!!

That was me two years ago!! Last year, the husband figured it out and actually helped.

For 25 years it was just me and my kid. I got married and inherited two step-sons and SEVEN grandsons, all under the age of 10. I also inherited two step-DILs and their 3 sons, 3 BILs and a step ex-wife (whom I love!). I was a bit overwhelmed.

[HappyMe]

20. Holy smokes!

That is a lot of people to inherit!

It's so sweet that you make up baskets and stuff.

Enjoy your family this weekend.

[Bertha Venation]

21. Sounds like fun. I might do some yard work.

I don't celebrate easter.

[lastlib]

22. Trying to flee to Paraguay and fight extradition!

The rest of my family are all fundies--It's an approximation of HELL around here at Easter for this agnostic humanist.