YOUR FONDEST EASTER MEMORIES....

AKA2D '91 · #1 04-08-2001, 08:05 PM

This week is "Holy" Week for some, (if it's not for you, just simply IGNORE THIS POST... THANKS IN ADVANCE)...

ANYWAY, Sunday (next) is EASTER SUNDAY...as a child, what is your fondest memory(ies)?

I remember visiting my maternal grandmother, going to her church having to say a "poem"...

It seems like all the kids said the SAME THING...(all I remember was that it ended in something about HAPPY EASTER DAY!

I remember AFTER church, riding with my grandmother, she had those marshmellow chicks (yuck)(she always gave those out to her Sunday school class)...it was so hot outside that they melted on the seat of the car, luckily not messing up my dress!

I remember my grandmother's house with the lillies (red and white) in bloom and the azealas (sp)...

oh, the GOOD FOOD, too!

I remember eating the eggs we found during the hunt made me sick the next day!

Diva7401 · #2 04-08-2001, 09:44 PM

I can remember when I was about 7 or 8, My mom waited until the day before to get our Easter outfits. After a day of shopping she returned with a lovely white dress complete with ruffels and yellow sash. It was SO Pretty. I could not wait to put it on....On Easter morning I was so excited I got dressed about 2 hours before church, I just KNEW that there would be not one as cute as ME...My mom constantly told me to "sit down, so you won't get dirty.." I'm outside just a prancin' and twirlin' hoping that the other kids in the neighborhood would notice and admire my flawless..."Oscar Red Carper Worthy Dress" In the midst of my "grandious moment"...I FELL OFF THE PORCH!! My beautiful dress that I admired so much was full of DIRT, GRASS AND MUD..., gloves black, purse soiled. Oh how I cried. I was devistated as I had to wear an "old" dress to church as my sisters were in their "Easter Finest." Nonetheless we had a GREAT time at church and a fun Easter Egg hunt.

The moral to this story is.....

SIT YOUR BUTT DOWN SOMEWHERE!!! (smile)

I just had to share this one.

Shalom2U · #3 04-09-2001, 12:51 AM

Shalom Everybody~

Helping to prepare the Sedar Plate and making pretty pillows as "take-home" favors for our guest who shared the Passover meal with our family...and eating lots of Halva!

Have a Blessed Resurrection Sunday Everybody!

Shalom~

Ideal08 · #4 04-09-2001, 08:34 AM

I remember for, like, 3 years in a row, I won the Easter Egg Hunt!! I got a stuffed bunny (or two) every year!

I remember dying eggs in our kitchen, the smell of vinegar mixed with the PAAS dye. I remember when I first learned to write on the eggs with white crayon before putting it in the dye. I thought I was an ARTIST, OK?! I made a personalized egg for everyone in the family.

I remember making Easter baskets. My least favorite thing: the chocolate bunnies that had the blue and yellow candy eyes... that mess was disturbing. I gave mine to my sister every year.

I remember my mother and I having our first "disagreement" about what dress to buy for Easter. My mother wanted me in a little black and white suit. I wanted this BEAUTIFUL dress with sheer layers and flowers. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. My mother said she wouldn't buy it. HA! My grandfather bought it for me!!!

And lastly, though I really can't remember it, my fondest "memory" is that I was born on Easter Sunday (something I have in common with one of our Founders

). My birthday has not fallen on Easter since. This year it comes quite close, though, this Saturday, April 14th. Mark your calendars, LOL!

lluvmook98 · #5 04-09-2001, 10:04 AM

This is not a childhod memory but it symbolizes why Easter is important to me.

I am Catholic and my mother was baptized in a Baptist church but she often attended my church and so she decided to join my church in 1998 on Holy Saturday/Easter Sunday morning, early the next year, they thought that she would be dead before Easter (she had cancer), turns out that, sick and all, she went to church on the anniversary of her membership into the church.

This year, my fiance, who has never been baptized, will not only join my church but also join in the body of Christ, through baptizm, during the exact same mass that my mother became a member of the church.

They loved each other very much (she has since died) and I am sure that she is pleased to see that he is making steps to make our family a unified body in Christ.

God is good all the time!

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SweetestDiva · #6 04-09-2001, 10:24 AM

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Originally posted by Ideal08:

I remember dying eggs in our kitchen, the smell of vinegar mixed with the PAAS dye. I remember when I first learned to write on the eggs with white crayon before putting it in the dye. I thought I was an ARTIST, OK?! I made a personalized egg for everyone in the family.

LOL... you too??

nikki25 · #7 04-09-2001, 11:57 AM

My fondest Easter Memories....ah, so many....in the days of my youth

*Going shopping for an Easter Sunday dress, bonnet, and shoes
*Preparing for the Easter Sunday Play that I always had a "part"
*Practicing my "part" with my Dad
*My mom pressing my hair
*The compliments and kisses of the senior saints as my sister and I marched into the sanctuary with our cute and frilly Easter dresses
*The Big Dinner at my grandmothers (yes, uh, complete with the mac and cheese, candied yams, ham, turkey, biscuits, sweet potato pie, collard greens, etc.)
*Watching "Jesus of Nazareth" the week before Easter with my grandmother.
*Playing in my Easter dress after church in my grandparents front yard. At which time, I'd have to change into my "play clothes".

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I will bless the Lord at ALL times His praise shall continually be in my mouth. (Psalms 34:1, KJV)

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loviest95 · #8 04-09-2001, 01:17 PM

my fondest Easter memories are of my mother dressing us -my younger brothers and me--up in codinating outfits. We would arise early to see what the Easter bunny left us.. then we headed to church--
We always had EASTER "speeches".

Then we had the Easter egg hunt and enjoyed my grandmother's cooking.

As we got older we started to attend "sunrise service"

I hope to have the chance to pass these traditions on to my children

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IVY in my HAND-- AKA in my HEART

serenity_24 · #9 04-09-2001, 01:47 PM

I remember most the easter that I was 7 years old. My mon had pressed my hair the night before and I had that one green sponge roller in the front to make some bangs. She dressed me first in this beaustiful pink dress with hand embroidered flowers on the front and a big, white ribbon around the waist (cant have an easter dress without that big white ribbon). Before she went in to get dressed she told me not to go outside with my brother and cousins (6 six boys). She didn't want me to sweat out my hair before church. Like a good little girl, as soon as I heard the shower going, I ran outside to play. The boys were out back playing tarzan at the edge of the creek. There was this big branch that hung down so that you could swing over to the other side of the creek. They had been swinging on it for a while and I wanted to have a turn. So I grabbed the branch ran back then ran forward and jumped, when halfway across the creek, the branch broke. Needless to say my hair was ruined and my pink dress had a new shade of brown. That was the worst easter whoopin of my life.

kitten03 · #10 04-10-2001, 12:48 AM

Ooohh,
I gotta few

I remember when my aunt took my sister, cousin and I to the white house for the annual Easter egg hunt. We waited in line for about three hours but it was worth it. It was crazy. kids everywhere, games wooden eggs etc. I still love going there. Maybe I'll take my nephew this year.

A somewhat Easter related memory is when me and a friend found some candy in the basement of my house. We opened the pack and he took the purple one and I took a red one. His mouth started turning purple. Of course mine started turning red. Scared that we were going to die, we ran upstairs to our moms who went crazy. Turns out we ate Easter egg dye.

My mom knew it was non-toxic but my aunt called the CDC anyway. It was quite an event. Even though we didn't get sick, we got that whoopin anyway.

Moral: Don't eat candy from the ground!

Everyone have a blessed and safe Easter. I'm so excited I'm going HOME!!!

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AKA2D '91 · #11 04-12-2001, 03:22 PM

HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY WEEKEND, EVERYBODY!

AKA2D '91 · #12 04-15-2003, 08:58 AM

ttt

delph998 · #13 04-15-2003, 10:39 AM

Dying Easter Eggs
Getting my hair pressed
new Easter outfit
Singing "Yes, Jesus Loves Me" every Easter
EASTER DINNER

And now this year's Easter will very memorable because I've fasted from meat for an entire month to gain strength and to develop a closer walk with Christ. This Sunday will be the end of the fast...

Honeykiss1974 · #14 04-15-2003, 10:51 AM

*My mother would always make me the prettiest frilly ruffled dress, with a little bell attached to one of the ruffles. I felt like a princess!

*The press ~n~ curl. I remember it cost $5.

* Dying eggs and then eating WAYYYY to many of them.

*Wanting an Easter Basket with a good toy in it.

*Church service, with the easter program afterwards (speeches and fashion show) and then the church easter egg hunt....later, attending the city sponsored an easter egg hunt as well.

*The Food!

9dstpm · #15 04-15-2003, 11:03 AM

I did not have a lot of Easter memories b/c I grew up in my parents' church, which was Church of Christ and they do not believe in Easter, so because of that I didn't get to wear a pretty Easter dress or recite a poem like all of my friends did.

Now that I'm Baptist, I'm so excited of having my little boy wear a new suit on Easter and saying his one little line in the Easter program at church.

The few memories that I did have were of making Easter baskets from Clorox bleach bottles, making the bunny masks from paper plates, and going to Grandmama's house after church and eating a big dinner!!

Happy Easter !!