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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 24, 2020 21:50:53 GMT
And what are you doing?
Easter is nonreligious in our house, so it's just about decorating eggs, egg hunt, candy baskets, & dinner.
Today i ordered some Easter candy from Wal-Mart.
I miss hand picking stuff in person, but i really want to stay at home.
Doing anything yet?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 21:56:45 GMT
Not planning anything as I'm certain we will all still be on lock down/social isolation in UK. You'll be OK though as Trump said you'll all be up and running by Easter  |
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Post by peasapie on Mar 24, 2020 22:02:53 GMT
WE usually have a big family dinner, but not this year.
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Post by freecharlie on Mar 24, 2020 22:03:16 GMT
Nah. We usually just get together with family and do an egg hunt for the "kids" at grandmas.
We will do something when this does down. Maybe make it a father's day egg hunt
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Post by mom on Mar 24, 2020 22:05:42 GMT
Nothing is planned yet, but I want to get on it this week. Mainly I want to figure out what we will be eating so I can start gathering it up a bit at a time when I find stuff in stock at the store.
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Post by mimima on Mar 24, 2020 22:05:46 GMT
Well, it is Lent, so yes.
Our Easter is the 19th, but it is hard to imagine that it will be normal.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 24, 2020 22:06:57 GMT
Nothing really yet. I picked up a couple little basket stuffers that I saw at Target a few weeks ago but nothing of any significance. And now that my kid is home 24/7 it will be harder to sneak anything in past her.
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Post by ntsf on Mar 24, 2020 22:08:59 GMT
easter will be at home under lockdown..I'm sure.. so will say my prayers and sing the songs at home. maybe a a chorus of the hallelujah chorus.
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Post by kristi on Mar 24, 2020 22:18:14 GMT
I ordered some eggs/candy with my Target pick up and then a couple of baskets items for my kids. I wasn’t sure if stores would still be shipping since our mall is closed but the items all arrived I yesterday. We are having trouble getting eggs so likely won’t be coloring this year.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 24, 2020 22:21:43 GMT
Not planning anything as I'm certain we will all still be on lock down/social isolation in UK. You'll be OK though as Trump said you'll all be up and running by Easter  Tbf, as long as I order candy in, we can do all our Easter stuff without leaving the house. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 24, 2020 22:24:55 GMT
I ordered some eggs/candy with my Target pick up and then a couple of baskets items for my kids. I wasn’t sure if stores would still be shipping since our mall is closed but the items all arrived I yesterday. We are having trouble getting eggs so likely won’t be coloring this year. Maybe buy fake eggs to paint/decorate & have them shipped in? |
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Post by Peal on Mar 24, 2020 22:30:42 GMT
I picked up IKEA flat pack chocolate bunnies a month and a half ago. I think that will be the extent of our Easter candy this year. It's ok. The kids are grown and don't need a basket full of chocolate.
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Post by 950nancy on Mar 24, 2020 22:31:53 GMT
Might hide a bunch of dog kibble around the house and let the dogs have an "Easter egg" hunt.
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Post by workingclassdog on Mar 24, 2020 22:34:25 GMT
Nope...
Sadly this is the first year I was going to be able to travel to my mom's side of the family to celebrate with them in over 25 years. I never could go because of my old job working in an accounting firm. So this was going to be the new tradition to start going every year and getting reintroduced to everyone and all the new cousins. Guess it is really nothing compared to everything else going on in the world. But I am a little sad.
Back to shopping and whatnot, I was never the one to plan to far ahead.. so yeah.. I might start thinking about it a little earlier this year. I just have one little one to buy for. We don't do the adult kids.
And no big meal.. it will probably be just DD and myself.
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Post by grammanisi on Mar 24, 2020 22:43:42 GMT
Just going to be my husband and I this year. Makes me really sad.
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Post by librarylady on Mar 24, 2020 22:48:07 GMT
I shall put out my decorations soon. Sometimes I put them out at the beginning of Lent, but sometimes wait until the week of Easter.
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Post by Basket1lady on Mar 24, 2020 23:12:41 GMT
I sent boxes last week to my college students and my in-laws. They received them today, so that’s a relief. I still have my parents’ box here, as they aren’t sure if they will head home or stay at their place in Florida.
We observe Lent, so I won’t put out decorations until Holy Saturday. I have a forsythia Bush in my yard that is blooming and I have some in a jar in the house. It’s nice to see flowers again!
I’m doing a grocery run next week. Our supplies will be low by then and I’m hoping the stores will be stocked up. I want to do a big run and then not go out again for several weeks. I have some risk factors, so I’m choosing to stay in as long as possible. Belgium is bad right now and I’m hoping things will be a little better by next week. The commissary is only open during work hours and DH is already going in at 5 am and coming home at 8 or 9 at night. It would just take too much from his day to make a big grocery run, plus I’m exposed daily because he is still going to work. So that was the compromise we came up with.
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Post by andreasmom on Mar 24, 2020 23:18:53 GMT
I normally decorate the day after St Patricks. Not this year. I’ll try to plan something fun for my girls, but it makes me sad to miss Easter mass (probably because it’s the only one I go to in the year (yep, bad Catholic, bad)
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Post by refugeepea on Mar 24, 2020 23:24:34 GMT
I have a tabletop tree I decorate for holidays. I have some eggs with little toys coming from Amazon. I'm not sure they will get here in time, but my son is clueless about Easter. We don't do much besides fill baskets with candy and a few fun things.
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Post by julie5 on Mar 24, 2020 23:59:18 GMT
I usually just buy my kids candy and color eggs. This year I might just make them cookies or something. Trying to cut down on candy buying because it never gets eaten.
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Post by NanaKate on Mar 25, 2020 0:34:16 GMT
I had already bought DGS10 a big container of Easter gummies I found at Cracker Barrel, and a swimsuit and rash guard for the trip to Destin in June that I will probably be canceling soon. I have Reese’s pb/chocolate bunnies for the girls. I’ll probably just add some extra cash to their cards this year and call it a day since it will be mailed this year 😢
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Post by jennifercw on Mar 25, 2020 0:36:24 GMT
Our Easter tradition is church and then a delicious brunch at a local winery. We have been every Easter for the past 11 years. Church will be online this year. It'll be different but that's OK. Suprisingly (and disappointingly if I'm being honest) the winery is still open but we won't be going unless something drastically changes between now and then. No way I am doing a buffet right now!
I will miss it. But we'll dress up in our Easter finery some other Sunday when this is all behind us and enjoy church and a great meal then.
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Post by littlemama on Mar 25, 2020 0:43:27 GMT
I just do happened to have picked up a few things for ds before this all happened. We were going to have to spend Easter where his university is because it is so close to the end of the semester. Now we will be at home, so I dont know what we will do.
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Post by scrapngranny on Mar 25, 2020 0:55:12 GMT
We usually celebrate with the grands. This year I’m making no plans at all. If things are REALLY better we can throw something together at the last minute.
The thing that is kind of frustrating is all my grandkids are out of school and I can’t see them, because I’m strictly quarantined to make I don’t get sick. Normally they come spend time here when they are out of school.
Better safe than sorry.
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Post by peaname on Mar 25, 2020 1:02:10 GMT
We start preparing for Easter about 40 days ahead of time with Lent. This has been an unusual Lent and I am preparing for an unusual Easter at home. I will miss the brass at church. But not the darn lilies I’m highly allergic.
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Post by huskermom98 on Mar 25, 2020 1:11:20 GMT
We usually head out of town to visit family, but my Mom has already said they are cancelling. I'd hate to not see anyone since it's been since Christmas, but it's not worth the risk either.
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Post by sweetpeasmom on Mar 25, 2020 1:29:42 GMT
I actually was just thinking about it this morning. I'm normally a last minute shopper but guess I'll be doing some online shopping this year. I'm guessing it'll just be us this year. My mom, even if we weren't social distancing, would probably be taking care of my grandmother and she is bedridden now.
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Post by ghislaine on Mar 25, 2020 2:05:23 GMT
I swung through our little local health food shop on Saturday to pick up some things to stock up my parent's house before they get home from Florida. The store had all kinds of Easter goodies out so I picked up a couple of little egg cartons with chocolate eggs in them for my two elementary school age kids. One of them had expressed a wish for coloring eggs, but I wasn't sure how easy it'd be to find white eggs, I snagged some plain cardboard eggs to help get free shipping on a WalMart order and placed a pickup order at Michaels for paints and brushes. I'm not sure about anything else.
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Post by Kerri W on Mar 25, 2020 2:23:12 GMT
I have several birthdays as well as Easter baskets in April and May so as soon as I heard inklings of things getting crazy, I ordered my gifts and basket stuffers. I’m ready!
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Mar 25, 2020 4:05:50 GMT
Since there were rumors of a shelter in place happening (starts at midnight tonight), I picked up some candy at the grocery yesterday. They had a display of nicer quality chocolates and candy, so I grabbed some large chocolate shapes from France. Got a large chocolate Koi fish for DH (I'll tell him he can pretend it is a Brown Trout!  ) and a 3 pc set for DD (a chicken, a rooster and an egg). They also had little clear plastic carrots filled with chocolate covered sunflower seeds that are orange. In my order last week from Bath & Body Works, I got the Easter foaming soap and the Easter tube of hand cream. Those are for DD. That's it for me. If I have time I might sew up a zipper pouch for DD as well. |
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