YOUR FONDEST EASTER MEMORIES.... - Page 2

FeeFee · #16 04-15-2003, 12:27 PM

Ahh....Easter memories:
1. My new Easter outfit for church

2. The press n' curl (I'm starting to see a pattern up in here.

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3. Easter dinner - can't wait for Sunday to get here

4. The Easter egg hunts

5. The Easter baskets

6. Being glad that I had a whole week of school off afterwards - yipee!!!

This Easter Sunday (Resurrection Sunday as my pastor calls it), we are having Holy Communion. This Saturday the children have to make crosses for the senior members. The children also have to recite a bunch of poems after morning service. Afterwards, they will probably receive a bag full of goodies.

I already bought my daughter's dress (she insisted on wearing light blue this year). Now I have to worry about her shoes and what to do with her hair (hint: it won't be a press n' curl

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CountryGurl · #17 04-15-2003, 02:12 PM

The greatest memory I have about Easter is My Parrain (Godfather) helping me find the Golden egg and giving me the best Easter basket!

I miss him so much.

stardusttwin · #18 04-15-2003, 03:36 PM

I think some of you were in my house all these years!

Memories:
* New Easter outfit, dress, slip, socks, frilly panties, hat...could not be worn again until Mothers Day, then my annual piano concert and then saved for any upcoming weddings that occured over the summer
*Never finding the Haleluia Egg in the egg hunt (winner got an ice cream Lamb cake)
*Seeing my entire family IN CHURCH (since I was the youngest I still had to go every week- they were older and now most of them only came on Easter and holidays)
*always remembering my Easter recitation-however my beloved younger cousin (RIP) no matter how hard we rehearsed would get up on stage-say one line and then burst into tears..God I miss her!

Eclipse · #19 04-15-2003, 05:36 PM

I have 2...

Like stardusttwin, I did the entire "I know my speech backwards and forward" thing and immediately forgot it once I got in front of all of those people looking at me

It paid off for me though, because I use that experience to open a class that I occasionally teach for adults on "Presentation Skills" My point is "If I can speak in front of people, so can you"

2nd memory is not really about Easter, but about Maundy Thursday, the date of the Last Supper. I grew up Episcopalian (sp?? Geesh, did I ever know how to spell that??) , and Maundy Thursday was a big deal. The Priest talked about what Christ was about to do in going to the cross, we had communion and went home. We also did the foot washing thing as well. Because of the solemn-ness (is that a word?) of the occassion we were supposed to leave in quiet reflection. For some reason I was in awe of the adults leaving the church with out the usually chit-chat. I don't remember a lot of what I learned in my early church years, but this service always had a big impact on me. My Baptist Church has been doing a Maundy Thursday service the last few years and I aways enjoy it. Only time we have real wine!

Eclipse · #20 04-15-2003, 05:41 PM

Question: Do people still go all out with Easter suits/hats and such nowadays? I typically go to our Easter Sun/Sonrise service and it is "come as you are" . I haven't been to a "regular" Easter service in about 8 years

I used to love "Easter Monday" in junior high school 'cause a lot of folks wore their Easter clothes to school that day. We used to laugh at boys thinking they wuz sharp and stuff lookin' like ice cream sherbet! LOL

stardusttwin · #21 04-16-2003, 12:18 AM

My family is from the West Indies- they grew up dressing the boys in suits and the girls in crinolin layers and lace stockings in all that heat every Sunday not just Easter Sunday-they passed that on to me and I will pass that on to my children(one day). Its something about dressing up that puts church into a special place for me (now I'm not talking about showing off or dressing expensively - I had maybe 3 dresses that I rotated w/my Sunday only ruffled panties, patent leather shoes and matching purse).

When I was younger everyone came to church dressed-these days this come as you are I personally can't get with. Its one thing to wear jeans and sneakers if thats all you have-but these middle class children at my church can and should have one pair of dress slacks/shirt or a nice skirt and blouse. Especially when wearing $75 nikes that they will outgrow in a few months. I have less tolerance for so called grown folks who do this too-no need to wear the same jean skirt you wear when hangin with your girls to church but carrying a $300 LV bag. I stopped going to my old church when the acolytes were on the altar wearing sneakers, chewing gum and passing notes-that NEVER would have happened back in my day. These kids make me feel old when I have to say that!

Phew, sorry...didn't mean to digress so much

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CherryPepsi · #22 04-17-2003, 07:25 PM

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.
(sniffle...CherryP sings Meeeemories like the corners of my mind)

Easter '79 I remember having my hair pressed n curled in Shirley Temple curls with lite pink ribbons a white dress with pink ribbons goin in and out of it white patent leather shoes..lacy gloves..and a white sweater like shawl I swore I was " Da Bomb". My dad was takin pictures like crazy and my mom was like umm can we get to church sometime today?? LOL Anyway...

Me and my dad made this humogous Easter basket everything in it but the kitchen sink...my dad was like show it to your friends later...guess where I put it??? On the radiator in the big picture window where all the sun was....D'oh

CherryPepsi · #23 04-17-2003, 07:30 PM

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. [/QUOTE]
(sniffle...CherryP sings Meeeemories like the corners of my mind)

Easter '79 I remember having my hair pressed n curled in Shirley Temple curls with lite pink ribbons a white dress with pink ribbons goin in and out of it white patent leather shoes..lacy gloves..and a white sweater like shawl I swore I was " Da Bomb". My dad was takin pictures like crazy and my mom was like umm can we get to church sometime today?? LOL Anyway...

Me and my dad made this humogous Easter basket everything in it but the kitchen sink...my dad was like show it to your friends later...guess where I put it??? On the radiator in the big picture window where all the sun was....D'oh

CountryGurl · #24 04-05-2004, 10:15 PM

TTT

HederaNaturale · #25 04-06-2004, 03:15 AM

One of my favorite things about Easter is how excited my mom gets, even though she tries to hide it, about the Easter egg hunt she gets to plan and making Easter baskets. More recently, its become a tradition for ALL of the children in my super-extended family to come over to our house on Sunday afternoon, so my cousins and I always run out of dyed eggs and we end up just hiding naked hard boiled eggs and the little plastic eggs all around the yard. But we turn it into a plus because we let the kids decorate them themselves with markers and crayons and paint on the dye, and we put candy inside the plastic ones and we plant a few with a dollar or two inside. My mom is so organized that it always goes off well-- we never end up with eggs left in crazy places, because she counts them all and makes a little map... she's so anal that it's adorable.

She also gets excited about Easter baskets-- every year she says she's not making anymore, and every year she goes out the night before to Wal-Mart and makes one anyway for my three cousins and me. We each get a personalized basket with age-appropriate gifts and candies, and she remembers which candy each of us likes (I got the "grown and sexy" basket last year- with makeup and godiva chocolates!!) And we take pictures with our baskets in our new clothes like it's a mini-Christmas and she packs the baskets away till the next year. It's not so much the things we get or even the fact that we get anything at all, but that she's so thoughful about it. I think she's just trying to rack up cool points in time for mother's day!

HederaNaturale · #26 04-06-2004, 03:21 AM

I also used to get excited because my grandmother had a hard and fast undershirt rule-- once it got chilly in the fall for the first time and I had to wear an undershirt, I had to KEEP wearing undershirts every day, no matter how hot it got later. And we live in South Carolina, where it truly hits 80 degress at Christmastime. The rule was that I couldn't stop wearing my undershirt until Easter, no matter how hot it got before then. It's usually hotter than life by the middle of April, so Easter was the first day that I could put on shorts without tights underneath and not wear my undershirt! I'd wake up Monday morning SOOOO happy!

Mz Destiny · #27 04-06-2004, 07:15 PM

I have a few...

1. Having to say "Easter Pieces" for our Sunday School Easter program. They always used to give me the longest ones! Man...just once I wanted to act like I couldn't memorize anything! LOL

2. Getting a pretty dress and white patent leather shoes every year!

3. Getting to wear my hair pressed and curled! lol

But my most fond memory actually came when I was an adult. One of my best friends from childhood (whom I could never get to come to church with me!) gave his life to the Lord, and he was baptized on Easter Sunday. We both cried like a baby.

Ever since that day, I stopped calling it Easter Sunday and started calling the day Ressurection Sunday.