Hi there.
I have to hurry cause Rowena and me we have agreed to meet in a supermarket.
She is going to stay here for this weekend.
We are probably going to watch the DV D of Desperate Housewives. Have nice brunches and for dinner we are going to gourmet.

what about you?

Well today I am cleaning house so the Easter Bunny can hide eggs tonight.

Tomorrow the kids will hunt eggs then we will have a big ham dinner.

My boys are 9 and 11 years old but they still want to dye easter eggs and hide them. :giggle:

I am going to Easter Brunch with my family. My brother and his family is here from St. Sauveur. Lauren's bf is here from Washington. He had to work on Good Friday :shrug:

Yeah, it's not a holiday here - both hubby and I had to work - we don't get anywhere near as many stat holidays as there are in Canada.....

Nothing special happening around here for Easter. But to all those who celebrate, have a great time! :wave:

We are having crawfish boil at my sister's house tomorrow. I am making strawberry cupcakes and a fruit platter to bring over there. The rest of the weekend around here is dedicated to cleaning house and the yard since next weekend is Mr. Ramson's birthday and we are having a crawfish boil over here to celebrate.

My husband is 50 yrs old but I still dye his underwear and hide them :giggle: :rofl:

WTH :blink: :rofl: Crazy woman you are. :lol:

So that is weird. Am I correct in understanding Eastern is not celebrated everywhere in the USA?

Here we always have a day off. Sunday and Monday.

Well Rowena and me did the groceries. Now she asked me if instead of having a nice dinner on Sunday and Monday night we could do it tonight and tomorrow.
I have no problems with that, but this means I have to get of my lazy ass soon and start dinner.

Not much to do. You know what gourmet is?
Where you sit on a table and you fry your own meal. with little pans?



Just have to prepare the meat. Make sauces, (curry and tomato) put the veggies and graded cheese in a bowl, cut the tomatoes and that is about it.

This time I was lucky that the butcher cut most of the meat so i only have to do the meatloaf.

Then we also have a special breakfast where when I was young we would discover a great big huge chocolate egg next to our plates.

Just bought a new pyjama so I am planning to take a shower and then wear them. :bananadance: Nice and cozy

:lmao:

Oh ramson! I'm on way! :drool:

That sounds wonderful CFF!! I've never heard of a meal done that way.

Lots of people do celebrate Easter here, yes. I used to back home - though not as a religious holiday, but as a fun Easter Bunny thing - I used to hide little chocolate eggs and my son would hunt for them - and there was always one BIG chocolate Easter bunny hidden as well. We never did the egg painting thing. And we usually had a family dinner - a big ham or turkey with all the trimmings. And I'm sure my family back home is still doing those things - but there's just hubby and I here and we don't do anything for Easter, or any holiday really - we have our own celebrations of whatever we want, whenever we want! ;) Special dinners and such are just because and when we feel like it.

I hope you have a lovely time with Rowena! :hug:

It's celebrated both religiously (for some) & commercially (Easter bunny, etc.), so to speak. Most businesses are open on Easter Sunday, and most people that normally work on Sunday STILL have to work on Sunday. And I don't know of anyone here that has Monday off because of Easter. Lucky you!!!

We are getting together with friends at the local park, and the children are going to have a chocolate Easter Egg hunt. Then maybe finish with a BBQ. I hope the weather holds out, woke up this morning and it is overcast and cold.

I just finished making 6 dozen cupcakes, and I hope to decorate them in an Easter theme, maybe use some fondant... to take to our easter celebration tomorrow.

Tomorrow, we're going to my parent's house (they live about an hour away) and I'll get to see my Mom, Dad and two brothers, as well as my mom's parents....

My Grandmama is just going to relax in CA.... though I hope my father calls her and takes her to dinner tomorrow....

Here we have Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon off (although Friday and Sunday are the only days no shops are allowed to open - except shops like petrol stations and tourist places). Anyone that does have to work gets paid more (time and a half I think). Easter Sunday and Xmas day are the two holidays here that are strictly non-trading except for a few exceptions like those above.
We're just having a nice quiet weekend, no dyeing eggs or underwear for us.

Marlene, I had raclette once with that type of machine in Switzerland - cheese, potatoes, gherkins. Yum!

I have no idea what fun my mother in law has in store for tomorrow. I'm sure an over-abundance of candy and "stuff". I'm not really sure how to address that, but over the past year or two, there's been so much stuff - Christmas was crazy - that it's kind of overwhelming and I'm not not comfortable with my kids being given SO much crap. I try to just leave it alone - she is their grandmother, but it's irritating me. She doesn't give them baskets, or just a stuffed bunny, she makes NESTS - huge ones - and the easter bunny comes to HER house too AND hides the eggs and all this crap.

My son is 8 and I think we are on borrowed time as far as believing in the bunny and santa, so we are enjoying it while we can. We'll have their baskets out for them and have breakfast and then head over to MILs. She asked us to bring deviled eggs, so we are making those spinach ones I like :)
http://www.recipezaar.com/13641

Oh, I probably sound like an ungrateful shrew. It's not that. It's just that... I dunno, it seems too much, My kids already have so much and it's just a lot. She even gave them goodies for Valentine's Day. I know, I know, but there's a bigger story there as well - LOL.

I wish I was an alcoholic, holidays always stress me out too much.

I'll mostly just be chillin' with my mom and my sister, and I'm making a nice supper and a bundt cake for snacking. No little kids in the immediate family at the moment, but the urge for the cutesy stuff continues. I've been sitting here researching horse treat recipes -- I need to invent some sort of egg-shaped horse treat/cookie/thingies! :lol:

Last year I made a thick molasses, oatmeal, and bran batter to bake around baby carrots which went over pretty well. This year we're going with something ginger-spicy 'cos the horses went a little crazy for gingerbread cookies at Christmas. I never knew they liked spice cookies! And then maybe an applejuice and sugar glaze for decoration....

:rolleyes:

:lol:

We are having a quiet Easter this year. Used to be that my sister Meranda & her 2 kids, my friend Naomi & her 2 kids & me with my 2 kids got together on Easter Sunday morning for an Easter egg hunt and give chocolate eggs & bunnies to each other, but we all ended up with too much chocolate that we didn't really need to eat! So we decided to scale back a bit and I decided to give one small bunny & new winter pyjamas for Easter to my kids, which is now the tradition.
Naomi died last year and we don't get to see her kids much anymore since they have gone to live with their father. Rhiana is the only one who kinda believes in the Easter Bunny, but not really, so we aren't doing the Easter egg hunt this year, especially as Callam is at his Dad's place, and Mandie's kids have decided they are too big (12 & 13)
Rhiana was very happy with her purple monkey Pjamas & chocolate bunny.
I might go to the supermarket after Easter to pick up some discounted eggs for my niece & nephew tomorrow :giggle:

We have that too in Germany. It is called Raclette and it is often done in the winter time as it gets quite warm in front of that thing. We had it for New Years Eve...

Well, as we don't have kids hubby and I don't really celebrate Easter. Sunday and Monday are holidays here too. I am just catching up on Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy and Private Practise. Later I have to do some washing and pack my stuff. I guess we'll cook sth tonight and watch TV...

Tomorrow I'll be sitting in the train for 8 hours and travel to the North Sea coast...

I know what you mean Candy. My youngest is 8 so we are getting close to the 'non belief' age. I am holding on as long as I can though.

I also understand about all the 'junk'. I have a major problem with that myself. I know it is probably a little different than when it is coming from Grandma, but I have decided that we are going to scale down the holidays as far as the 'stuff' goes, and try to concentrate more on the spirit of the hoidays now that the kids are getting older.


A nice glass of wine (or two or three) never hurts. :giggle:

Hi there. We do the raclette. (we call it gourmet or gourmetten as if in, we are going to gourmetten.)

It was nice. I had beefsteak, chicken fillet, bacon and meatloaf for the meat.
Leek, tomatoes, grates cheese and self made sauce.

I forgot to make the desert. Chocolate mousse with cream you have to whip yourself. Still like that better than the already made ones.

I overslept this morning but managed to make the breakfast table before Rowena woke up.

I am still in my pyjama's :blush:
O and we woke up to see snow!!!!! :bananadance:

Now you guys make me confused again. I know kids do believe in Santa Claus like our kids here believe in Sinterklaas (December 5th) .
But I did not know that kids also believe in a bunny? :blink: :wacko: :rofl:

What is the story about that? :lol:

Rosie. If I were in your shoes I would do the same. OK I have Rowena and she asked me if she could stay this weekend, but otherwise I would not have done anything for eastern. Might have bought some chocolate. :lol:

Candi. So do your kids get gifts also? or just the candy? Here we don't do gifts. well as far as I know of. but we do give the kids some nice choclate thingy.

I'm sure there's some religious significance, but we aren't religious. The Easter Bunny comes at night and leaves a basket for the kids. When I was a kid, it was mostly candy and a few small toys. We give something themed each year (one year it was bubbles, another balloons, etc etc). This year we did a little more than I wanted, but I also wanted some new outdoor stuff for them as they've outgrown some of the other, so they got stomp and hand rockets to play with outside, some candy, and a toothbrush/paste (that's our family's weird tradition).

The easter bunny is, I believe, a Christian thing - we just go with it because Tom's family is Christian and so is mine, we always had the Easter Bunny - and Santa for that matter.

I also left a piece of nibbled on celery on the table and then told the kids to stop leaving food on the table. LOL. They are convinced the bunny did it.

I'm getting ready to upload pictures from this morning and then we are off to the in-laws. Oh yay.

Happy Easter Everybody!!

According to Wikipedia, the Easter Bunny probably has Pagan origins...

"The Easter Bunny is a mythological rabbit who brings gifts and candy to children on the Easter holiday, most likely based on pre-Christian customs honoring the fertility goddess Eostre." :)

Greek Orthodox Easter is on April 27th, so I still have a long wait. :( We have to buy Easter chocolate now and save it 'cause there won't be any in the stores then.

ETA: we don't have an Easter Bunny. :)

Aww, that's really cute!

My mom and dad bought me three stuffed bunnies and I'm 27 years old! But, I asked for one. :blush:

My mom, dad, boyfriend, and I are all going out to dinner. :yum:

Laundry and resting- no Easter celebrations here. Nice thing about being an Atheist. We used to do chocolate bunnies, and I have to have peeps, but I'll get them tomorrow on sale.

That kind of depends on where you live, I think. New Orleans is very Catholic city, ergo Easter is a HUGE holiday here. I would think it would be the same in any city with a large Catholic community like Boston or something. The kids are off from school either the week before or the week after Easter. Good Friday is pretty much a holiday for everyone here except the post office and gas stations, grocery stores and malls. Everything is closed on Easter Sunday except the gas stations. The gas stations do a tidy business because everyone goes there to get ice for their Easter celebrations. Most people here have a crawfish boil either on Good Friday or Easter Sunday. Of course there is a ton of chocolate and other goodies. We have 2 diabetics in my family so we kind of moved away from the overload of candy a long time ago in lieu of small gifts. When they were younger my 2 neices each got their bathing suit for the year in their Easter basket and just a few pieces of candy. Lots of times its hot enough here for Easter to be the first swim of the year. Not this year though! I was outside today in jeans, a long sleeve shirt and sweater and was cold!

We are not religious in my house so its commercial holiday for us. I gave Mr. Ramson some beer that they don't sell here that I had my niece bring in from Alabama and he gave me dozen roses. I can't have candy (trying to fight off that genetic diabetes that runs in the family) but I did buy some for the neices and Mr. Ramson plus he got plenty more from my sister and mom.

Thanks... it's been the talk of the day. I keep telling them there's no way he would've take time out of the day to raid the fridge. They keep asking each other "did you do it?" "no, I don't even like celery!"

LOL

I'm an evil mother sometimes. :evil:

We went over to my mom's for dinner. I brought the pineapple stuffing. Matt helped me make it.
Hubby took his friend home from the airport. And we met him over there. Not before having to pull over in Meg's car because a hose busted :cry: