We are working on making and continuing some family traditions, especially around the holidays. Check out some of our traditions for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
We have some fun ones for Easter as well. Each day this week we have talked about one of the events of the last week of Jesus Christ's life and made a picture time line.
We have put in a request to the Easter Bunny for a Saturday delivery and so we have our hunt for baskets and eggs on Saturday mornings.
Then our neighborhood has a wonderful egg hunt and pot luck breakfast down the street. This year the Easter Bunny himself made an appearance!
We save Easter Sunday for our celebrations of the true meaning of Easter. This afternoon, we watched two videos "He is Risen" from Living Scriptures, and "The Testaments" which is produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. We then had our traditional "Resurrection Eggs" hunt. The children are blindfolded (3 days of darkness in the Americas) and taken to various parts of the house. They must then find their way to "Bountiful" (the family room) while overcoming obstacles and destruction (overturned chairs etc) that happened at Jesus' death. As they make their way to Bountiful, they must also find the 12 eggs and bring them with them. We then take turns opening the eggs in order and discussing the symbolism.
After dinner we then made "Resurrection Rolls" which the kids love and ask about every year.
As a final Easter gift, inspired by this talk in General Conference, Paul and I presented the kids with large framed prints of a temple to hang in their rooms.
All in all, it was a wonderful day. Though we had some squables and consequences as on any other day, it turned out to be special and memorable.
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