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Post by iamkristinl16 on Apr 8, 2020 22:52:58 GMT
I we usually get together with our extended family. The usual big meal and Easter egg hunt. I decided that we would still do an Easter egg hunt but am not sure what else, if any thing, to do to make it special. Any ideas? We aren’t particularly religious but do attend a church occasionally and could watch the service online. Not sure the kids would be thrilled about that.
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Post by RosieKat on Apr 8, 2020 23:00:08 GMT
Nothing much. It's our one major holiday where it's just us, not extended family, so at least that part will be the same. I did find a small ham at the grocery store, so we'll have that with whatever frozen veggies I can find in the freezer, and we still had some plastic eggs saved from before. My kids are 14 and 11 but they still like that. No Easter baskets or even candy to put in the eggs, unfortunately, so we'll do coins and fruit chews. My honorary uncle is a priest who delivers a good homily, so we'll probably stream that rather than from our regular church. That's about it for us.
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Post by Suziee2 on Apr 8, 2020 23:03:31 GMT
DH and I will facetime with DD, SIL and 15 month old DGS. So sad. We had to send things for his Easter Basket.
We will make our normal family meal. Ham that we will eat forever and typical sides except for asparagus because I forgot to order it.
Not sure how old your kids are.
You could possibly do a treasure hunt to find the baskets. Get a clue to find next clue, etc. If you make deviled eggs, you can dye the eggs to make them colorful or even use beet juice if you have it. Easter Bunny hangman with sidewalk chalk. Sack races to hop like a bunny to search for eggs. Can you make bunny teeth and ears for everyone to wear?
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Post by huskermom98 on Apr 8, 2020 23:10:48 GMT
The boys & I will watch our church service online at home while DH is up at church playing drums. I looked into getting an Easter dinner from a restaurant, but nothing sounded great that wasn't either out of the way or more food than 4 of us would need. I might get candy to put in eggs for the boys to look for (even though they are 12 & 14) but now there's a high chance of rain...but mostly I'm going to miss getting together with family...
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Post by gar on Apr 8, 2020 23:10:57 GMT
It'll be just me and Dh. I so want to see my DDs and my little Dgs but it'll have to wait. I'll cook a roast and make his favourite dessert but that'll be it this year. It's not a big deal in the religious sense for us but normally we're looking forward to a 4 day weekend - not sure we'll even notice what day it is this year
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Post by padresfan619 on Apr 8, 2020 23:11:24 GMT
We are having a family Zoom chat and then nothing else special. I’m avoiding the grocery store so I will have to scrounge up a pantry and freezer dinner.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Apr 8, 2020 23:16:17 GMT
We are dying eggs on Friday.
Sunday will include:
An egg hunt in our house (maybe backyard too)
Easter baskets full of candy
Dinner - ham, potatoes, stuffing, veg & fruit.
Hopefully silly photos with bunny ears.
The day will just include those living here.
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Post by peano on Apr 8, 2020 23:22:43 GMT
It will just be the three of us. DH found flour at the store, so I'm going to make a carrot cake for the first time. And we'll cobble together a meal from what we have in the freezer and from our most recent shopping trip.
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 8, 2020 23:27:21 GMT
DH will make dinner for me, DS1, DIL and DGD. WE will probably have it around noon so I will put some eggs out in the yard for DGD to hunt for. I filled baskets for everyone. I threw some amazon gift cards in so thy can buy something online.
I actually have some eggs and I was thinking about cooking about 4 or 5 for DGD to dye them. She's only 15 months but she enjoys doing things, especially with water.
I guess it will be pretty laid back like everything is these days, but not much different than it would be in any case.
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Post by Basket1lady on Apr 8, 2020 23:37:03 GMT
What about having minute to win it type games with an Easter spin or relay races to scoop up eggs and candy? Get them active and have some friendly family competition!
You could watch a movie when you are ready for some down time. The a passion the the Christ is what I think we will watch, but you may want something more kid friendly.
With Mass online, we still participate. We get dressed (no pjs!), sit and kneel as normal. We light candles, have the Bible open to the gospel reading, and use the Magnifikid version to follow along (DH likes to follow along like that). The Magnificat and Magnifikid versions are both free for now. (Catholic)
FaceTime with the grandparents. My 88 year old FIL just loves to FaceTime. It’s what forced him to learn how to use his iphone!
Set up a crew to help with cooking and clean up. Even the youngest can peel potatoes. I’d keep aside a special treat for those who have clean up duty.
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Post by AussieMeg on Apr 8, 2020 23:41:11 GMT
Normally we go to my dad and stepmum's house for brunch. The kids all do an Easter egg hunt, and we take a group photo of the 8 grandkids together. We four mums have decided that we will all take a photo of our two kids, and then I will Photoshop the four photos into one group shot, and give it to the grandparents. I think that they think my Photoshop skills are better than they actually are! Anyway, we'll see how it goes. My 22yo DD has begged me to still do an Easter egg hunt at home. Last year was the first time in her life that I didn't do an egg hunt at home (just the one at my dad's) and she is still annoyed about it! ![:grin:](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/TKS2q_7siLiFtq0xPQvx.jpg) I will cook up some of the dishes that my stepmum normally cooks. And Dad said that he is going to drive around to each of our houses and leave Easter eggs on our doorstep. I had planned to do a scavenger hunt for the older kids, copying something that kitbop has done for her kids previously. But it involves getting out and about in the neighbourhood, and interacting with strangers, so I will have to put that one on the back burner until next year.
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Post by julieb on Apr 8, 2020 23:41:43 GMT
DH and I will have dinner together and Zoom with our adult children. NO ONE should be getting together with anyone other than the residents of their home. I have a feeling I'll be seeing cars in our neighbor's driveway. They keep seeing their grandchildren and adult children. It infuriates me, but I won't say a word. Just venting.
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Post by scrapngranny on Apr 8, 2020 23:43:35 GMT
We aren’t doing anything this year. Normally we get together with our kids and grandkids, but this year in order to stay safe it will just be the two of us and the dog. In the past I have gotten the dog an Easter toy, this year I didn’t even do that.
We have a lot of family birthdays coming up in May, possibly we will be able to get together to celebrate then.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2020 0:03:06 GMT
We'll attend Good Friday service online. On Saturday I'll hide Easter eggs for my boys. We always make Resurrection Rolls on Easter morning. We'll watch church.
I'm also thinking of a lunch with the neighbors that we do life with. My current thought it that our three families each get their own table and bring their own food, but we all sit outside, socially distanced, together so it feels more festive.
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Post by kitbop on Apr 9, 2020 0:30:55 GMT
I am working this year. I volunteered in January, when our weekend rotations were announced, and I noticed that one of my coworkers had been given more than her share of long weekends. So I volunteered to take Easter for her, since I had a bit of a gap in my weekend schedule. It will be my first weekend working on the "covid unit"... since I work in the whole hospital on a weekend, the covid unit will be the last visit of the day as per our infection control people. On the other hand, since the hospital census is down about 35%, the weekends tend to be quieter than before covid! I think this is the first year I've ever worked Easter! I've done several Christmases and all the other holidays. And I always seem to work Mother's Day (which isn't a stat holiday, so nobody sympathizes with me at work ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/rolleyes.jpg.gif) ) So I don't think we'll have any egg hunting or many treats for that matter, but I haven't told the kids that! And really, we should "mark" this Easter, not just let it slide by. On Good Friday, I have pre-ordered fish and chips from one of our local hang-outs. I'm going to deliver an order to my Dad too - he knows we can't eat together, but whenever I take him groceries and stuff he comes WAY too close to be and I have to make him back off!
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Post by ellen on Apr 9, 2020 0:38:05 GMT
We ordered a takeout dinner from a local Italian restaurant. We had talked about making our own dinner, but when we saw the dinner package they were putting together it was a no-brainer. They had to quit taking orders today it was so popular.
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Post by Merge on Apr 9, 2020 0:40:21 GMT
Drinking? LOL And I think we'll introduce MIL to Zoom. She'll get a kick out of it.
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Post by littlemama on Apr 9, 2020 1:07:31 GMT
My mom ordered dinner from a great Italian banquet hall (that also used to be a restaurant.) We are picking it up Saturday, I will divide it and deliver part to my mom and then we will have Easter dinner together over Zoom.
Different doesnt have to mean worse. Resilience means taking what you have and doing the best you can with it.
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Post by peaname on Apr 9, 2020 1:10:00 GMT
Hosting an Easter egg hunt for my neighborhood. We'll keep it to under 100 people though just to be safe.
Kidding! We'll have ham if Walmart pickup comes through and I have a Carvel bunny cake in my basement freezer.
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 9, 2020 1:31:57 GMT
I am planning on having it in Vegas with my family when it is safe. I haven't mentioned it to my husband, but I think I'll fly the six of us there and we will celebrate. By the time this is over, we'll have missed Easter and four birthdays.
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Post by fredfreddy44 on Apr 9, 2020 1:33:57 GMT
We will make something for dinner, probably split peas soup with ham. I am making an apple pie for dessert. I have baskets for my (20 and 17 yo) sons and will hide plastic eggs in the backyard with some $$$ inside. Also tomorrow I am putting up 7 paper eggs you can see from our sidewalk for a neighborhood hunt. Probably call family,.
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Post by fiddlesticks on Apr 9, 2020 1:35:24 GMT
I bought things for DDs basket at the beginning of March thinking this would be happening. She will have a little less candy because I have eating all the Reese's Eggs. Sorry not sorry.
Not sure we will do anything particularly special for dinner. Usually we get together with MIL and make it a meal but won't be doing that this year.
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Post by KikiPea on Apr 9, 2020 1:37:35 GMT
We don’t have kids, so we don’t have to worry about eggs/candy.
I will be dressing up in my cute summer dress to watch our service online (I know, call me crazy. 😉). Before our church service, we will be going to pick up brunch at one of our favorite brunch spots. I also bought ya a small box of Reece’s PB eggs.
That’s it for us!
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Post by sassyangel on Apr 9, 2020 1:40:53 GMT
I’m so tired of cooking! 🤣
But will do *something* for Easter. Maybe a ham lunch, not sure.
We are going to do a Houseparty chat with all my family for Easter, so that should be interesting. My mum is having a bad time and missing her family, so we taught her how to use houseparty, and she’s really gotten on board with it.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Apr 9, 2020 1:47:26 GMT
I will pick up a Honey Baked Ham on Saturday and will make some of my sides starting Friday. I will probably watch the service from First Methodist in Baton Rouge ~ that's where DH and I were married. I like that they email me the links to watch whichever service I like. It's supposed to be in the 70's so we'll go on a nice long walk/hike with DS. I'll buy them an Easter treat when I do my weekly shopping. Luckily I have a Hallmark.com program on my computer so I always make them cards with that.
And our neighborhood is having a *mock* Easter egg hunt where people color big paper eggs and put them in their windows. As kids take walks with their parents, they can look for the eggs. I'm using colorful scrap paper to make mine.
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Post by pierkiss on Apr 9, 2020 3:14:32 GMT
Nothing! We’re in quarantine! 😁. We’re going to wear whatever (should be highly entertaining) we want, watch church on the Internet, and do baskets as usual. My kids will be disappointed, as they seem to think the Easter bunny has turned into Santa Claus this year. One of them presented me with a list. I basically did that blinkingan face meme at them. No children. We are not having Santa Bunny. We are having Easter Bunny. Bringer of a shit ton of chocolate (which you ALL gave up for lent, on your own!), and a couple of trinkets. And an egg hunt-with eggs full of more candy. Not gigantic Lego sets and toys up the wazoo. 🙄🤣🤣
I’m super happy my in-laws will not be randomly popping by like they do every single year on Easter. I like to do the big holidays just us. And that’s hard to do when my husbands parents live literally 5 minutes down the road. And soon my parents will be 15 minutes down the road. Don’t get me wrong, I super love ALL of them. And I’m happy to live by them and share my kids with them. But some things, like big holidays, I just want to do with just us. Not extra people. Sorry. Not sorry.
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Post by sueg on Apr 9, 2020 8:14:57 GMT
It's just DH and I, as it is most years, so Easter will be simple. This is actually the first time in 3 years that we are not travelling around the Easter holiday, so it will be a bit calmer than usual. I have bought a lamb roast to make for Sunday lunch (and it will provide 1 or 2 further meals next week, including a shepherds pie) and am considering making a dessert, even though we rarely eat dessert here. Our church is doing online Mass, so I will watch tonight's Last Supper Mass and then either Saturday evening (our usual) or Sunday morning, depending what time it goes online. We already have a ton of chocolate in the house, so no extra from the bunny.
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Post by inkedup on Apr 9, 2020 9:22:29 GMT
I have had a scavenger hunt for my oldest for the last three years. I hide gifts and make numbered cards with rhyming clues that take him to small gifts and then, finally, his basket. (He will be 7 next month and loves this tradition.)
I have added extra prizes and toys this year since it will just be the 4 of us. We also have a 2 year old. The scavenger hunt will end in a new tent that will have their baskets in it. My oldest is getting board games and outdoor toys (sidewalk chalk, baseballs, new swim trunks, etc.). My youngest loves sharks, so his stuff is shark/and fish themed.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Apr 9, 2020 9:36:37 GMT
It's just the two of us in our household so we'll be watching the Sunday service and probably making and receiving lots of phone calls. We've been self-isolating so we haven't even got any Easter eggs or anything special to eat. I have made cards for the family. I'm considering making a Simnel cake. I found an unopened pack of marzipan in the cupboard that is just still in date.
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Post by compeateropeator on Apr 9, 2020 9:36:51 GMT
Absolutely nothing. I will be home alone. I will miss being able to have the large extended family get together.
I will also miss doing an egg hunt with my niece and nephew. I do a big one where they each have their own eggs to find and where 8 to 10 of them had a coin in them to trade for small gifts. They both have mentioned that this will be the first year they won’t be able to have one and will miss it (they are 9 and 13) 😔
I will FaceTime with my parents and with my brother/family.
I have a ham steak and potatoes if I want to make them, but we will see. It will the first Easter I have been alone so it will be interesting at best.
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