Today is Good Friday. We went to church last evening and will go tonight and again on Easter Sunday. When I was a kid, \u201cEaster\u201d was on Sunday and we dressed up and went to church. I don\u2019t remember any events or special days leading up to Easter. I heard of Lent and kind of knew what it was, but we didn\u2019t \u201cobserve\u201d it \u2014 same with Good Friday\u2026 I knew what Good Friday was, but there was no special observance of the day.<\/p>\n
Easter wasn\u2019t a particularly special holiday in our family \u2014 we were always happy for it to come around because it was sort of the beginning of spring. But, when I was a kid, like most special occasions, there were not really any \u201ctraditions\u201d associated with Easter. You didn\u2019t go to the mall to visit the Easter Bunny \u2014 that came after I was older\u2026 in fact malls<\/em> came after I was older. I remember that we did usually color eggs, but I don\u2019t remember participating in that activity much \u2014 it was usually done mostly by my mom. We usually did get a gift of some kind from the Easter Bunny \u2014 often times it was a live bunny, chick or duck. And we did go to church on Easter Sunday dressed, almost always, in some new clothes.\u00a0We had a small family and I remember going to one of our grandparents\u2019 house for Christmases and Thanksgivings but I don\u2019t remember \u201cfamily\u201d gatherings on Easter.<\/p>\n So other than just rambling on about what I remember about Easter when I was young, I guess the point here is that we didn\u2019t really have any Easter traditions. I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s either good or bad \u2014 it\u2019s just the way it was. Of course if you think about it, traditions are really just the past. So maybe whatever we did could<\/em> be considered a tradition. But I once heard that cultures grow on the vine of tradition\u2026 so based on that, I\u2019d say we didn\u2019t have Easter traditions, we just observed Easter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is Good Friday. We went to church last evening and will go tonight and again on Easter Sunday. When I was a kid, \u201cEaster\u201d was on Sunday and we dressed up and went to church. I don\u2019t remember any … Continue reading
\nNo matter how you celebrate \u2014 Happy Easter.
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