What does this day mean to you if anything? Has this day lost its value to a great number of people?
Most of the western world celebrate Christmas in style and Easter is becoming more and more an afterthought. Even pagans and atheists enjoy a good Christmas yet will feel pressured to wish people happy Easter even though Easter used to be and is also a pagan celebration!
Easter Memories
Easter has always been a fun time for children and their parents. It was great to hide Easter Eggs and turn the kids loose to go find them and put them in their little baskets. They weren't real eggs, of course. That wouldn't be much fun. They were the plastic kind with jelly beans inside. My wife made everyone in the house Easter baskets filled with all sorts of candy including the iconic chocolate bunny. Mine was bittersweet chocolate. I bit the bunny ears off first, then the head and so on.
Thinking of this makes me feel a little sad because there probably won't be a delicious Godiva Easter Bunny anywhere in sight when I get up in the morning. Maybe I'll have to go buy myself one. It will be discounted because I'm buying it after the event.
Parents taught their kids how to color real hard boiled eggs which later became deviled eggs or egg salad.
As a kid, I sometimes went to church/Sunday school on Easter Sunday wearing ridiculously expensive little outfits which I wore once and outgrew long before the next Easter.
One Easter, my wife and I dropped off my much younger sisters at Sunday school. While they were there, we went to a morning jazz club and had Bloody Mary's. Obviously, we were sinners. LOL
