Sunday, March 14, 2010

Easter Blessings Giveaway



The time change is the gateway to springtime and the first holiday of spring is always Easter. I love traditions, and can remember always getting a new Easter dress each year, once complete with hand muff and matching purse, we were stylish back in the day, weren't we. I know stores still go all out to take advantage of each holiday and the Easter dresses have been out for display for weeks now, but I wonder just how much tradition is still left in Easter? Do you attend sunrise service at your church? Dose your family gather for a feast and egg hunt? Just how do you celebrate Easter? That is the theme for my Easter Blessings Giveaway, because I think tradition matters and I enjoy hearing of all the ways people celebrate such holidays, so leave me a comment here on how you celebrate Easter. This giveaway will be open for one week, ending next Sunday, March 21. The giftie will be Easter goodies of course, maybe for decorating, eating or to start your own tradition. Blessings are born from our family rituals and memories are made. Let's keep the true meaning of Easter close in our hearts and in our families. Good luck and blessings abound!

25 comments:

  1. We start our celebration of Easter by going to a different church in town each day, the week of Easter.This is a community sharing. There is always a special service on Good Friday and And Easter starts off with Sunrise service and Buffet Breakfast after. Then my family usually goes to my daughter's and all bring our favorites. There is usually around 20-25 of us. It is so nice to be with all the family. And to just sit and enjoy all the blessings that we have received that year.
    Brenda

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  2. Lovely spring blog page! and you evoked some memories from my childhood which were filled with traditions for many years.
    Now,we attend sunrise service and then gather for a wonderful ham dinner with a few friends each of us bringing our favorites to share. Very simple now that the kids are on their own and have different schedules with their families.

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  4. 4:30 am our family heads to Cooks Forest National Park for sunrise service. We have done this since I was a little girl. Afterwards we head home for a buffet breakfast, then the Easter egg hunt for the grandchildren. Later n the day. the whole family(32) comes to celebrate a fantastic ham dnner with all the fixing. This has gone on for several generations, and hopefully many more. hugs, Linda gypsyluv1010@gmail.com

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  5. Hey there Sue, my mom always made us our easter dresses and we would always get new black or white shiny shoes to go with them..I always loved wearing my new dress to church for easter..we would decorate our eggs the day before with those little colored tablets and metal egg holder (you know the packages)..my mom would then hide our baskets somewhere in the living room and we would get them the first thing when we woke up.just loaded with our eggs and candy etc..you just brought back some wonderful memories..:) please enter me in your wonderful giveaway.>)

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  6. Hi Sue, Love this idea. I grew up getting Easter outfits, too. I didn't grow up knowing the true meaning of Easter. That has changed with my child. We have never pushed the Easter Bunny, it is always about Jesus and the resurrection. We have a neighbor that has hidden eggs in our yard for Coco to find on Easter morning.We do color eggs and attend a egg hunt. We go to church and then dinner with either my family or the inlaws (we switch each year)!
    Thanks
    Pam

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  7. My Easter Memories are similar to yours..Always went to church and always had our Sunday best on! We always had a big family dinner together. Now I do the same with my children. Easter basket hunt as soon as we get up...so much fun!

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  8. My Easter Memories are similar to yours..Always went to church and always had our Sunday best on! We always had a big family dinner together. Now I do the same with my children. Easter basket hunt as soon as we get up...so much fun!

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  9. Anonymous4:22 AM

    I remember getting a new dress with spring coat & hat & gloves to go to church with my Grandma. The one I remember most was a light lavender.
    We have no family now....just DH & DD & I. Just the 3 of us....
    Have a Wonderful Week!
    Marilyn

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  10. i go to church, then deliver a basket to the nieces & nephew and have dinner. my church holds a HUGE community egg hunt usually the week before that i always try to help out at. one year i did face painting on the kids---FUN!!! this year to prepare we've had to stuff 12,000 eggs (i said it was HUGE!!!) lol

    debzdogz@comcast.net

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  11. Now that my kids are grown, we don't have any new Easter traditions. But oh, the joy, of buying new dresses and a little suit for my son, so we could all be dressed up for church on Easter Sunday. Of course, we had easter baskets filled with spring time goodies. Then we would hide and rehide and rehide and rehide (you get the picture) easter eggs all day long! I have a new grandson (just over a month old now) and I look forward to hiding and rehiding eggs for him!

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  12. This year I will be doing a church service!! Doing the Bible reading, the explanation and the main prayer. Excited but also very nervous. It will be the first time ever.

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  13. I will never forget the easter that i got 2 little baby ducks in my easter basket, they were our pets for years to come and I so loved them. I always got a new dress, hat, shoes and pocketbook. We would go to church and come home to a big easter dinner with ham and coconut cake. Easter is my fav time of year.

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  14. Easter is my favorite holiday! :) I was born out of an Easter basket..hehe..okay, so maybe not quite, but the story goes that Mom was making up Easter baskets and went into labor with me and I was born Easter morning. :D hehe

    We have always gone to church on Easter sunday and dressed up in our pretties. Brand new dresses, gloves, pretty purses, and new shoes. :)
    After church we came home and were allowed to have our Easter baskets. They were always waiting for us when we woke up Easter morning. The Easter bunny needed to make sure they were there before church of course. ;)
    Then, we would sit around and visit or tote our baskets around. Then it was back to church at night.

    Don't you just love Easter. Not only is it a time of renewing and a refreshening, but also a time when I learned of the wonderful gift that God gave of His precious Son and the glorious resurrection from the grave!

    hugs
    Jessie

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  15. Easter when I was a child always started out with sunrise service held at our local municipal airport, then breakfast put on by the youth at our church followed by Easter Sunday service. Of course, we also had an Easter egg hunt followed by a delicious family dinner. What wonderful memories!!

    Luanne
    beekeepersgirl #691

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  16. Our Easter Sunday begins with going to Church. After church we have a walk on the beach (when down with my parents in Florida). Next is the Easter egg hunt. Then Easter Dinner usually an Easter Ham with all the trimmings!

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  17. Hi Sue, I love Easter! BTW, love the look of your blog. I love Easter because I love all the colors of spring and the promise that spring brings.
    Our traditions have changed somewhat now that the children are older, no new outfits, or egg hunts, but the two things that are constant is church service and family dinner. As a matter of fact I was planning my Easter dinner this weekend.
    Hope your having a wonderful day!

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  18. OneCraftyBugger3:58 PM

    Our Easter has chaned as both we and our children have grown over the years. Though my daughter is now in her 20's, it is still a given that there will be a basket of goodies and an egg hunt. However instead of chasing little ones dressed in pastel colors and patten leather shoes we know sit and listen to the memmories of togetherness that has bound them over the years, and nothing will ever change that.
    OneCraftyBugger from MJ Farm

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  19. Sue,
    This is bringing back memories! Yep, I from that era too :) Always got a new Easter outfit from my Aunt, complete with hat, gloves and maybe even shoes! It was so special. Easter was the holiday this sweet Aunt spoiled us. One of the fun things I remember is that Easter was the "official" beginning of the season that you could wear white shoes! Remember that? lol!! How funny! :)
    Thanks for your Giveaway fun!!!
    Hugz,
    Cathy♥♥

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  20. To celebrate Easter my family always gathers for a big Easter breakfast and then all the kiddos get together and hunt eggs then we all go to church for the afternoon service.
    thegrants(at)live(dot)com

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  21. On Saturday morning my church has an Easter breakfast pot luck, it is always a blessed time. Sunday morning the kids see what's in their baskets and then we go to church service. Then afterward my kids get to find eggs. Hubby makes dinner, and we send up more thanks to Jesus in our prayers. (We are always thankful first in our prayers.)

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  22. I bake bread and have a "last supper" with my family on Thursday evening. We break bread and drink grape juice as an extended communion. My husband usually tells the Easter story.

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  23. Hello Sue :)

    Grwoing up I always got a new Easter Dress and Bonnet. MY brothera and I would wake up to Easter Baskets and then the egg hunt. In good weather my parents would hide foil wrapped chocolate and marshmallow eggs in the yard. rainy days meant penny candy and coins in plastic eggs hid in the house.

    As an adult, the focus is on the Resurrection of Christ. My honey is a Pastor so we start our day with Church worshipping the Lord and learning more about Him. After church we come home to our Easter Dinner. We usually invite folks from church to share our dinner with us. I look forward to the fellowship.

    A tradition of mine is Cadbury Cream Eggs! A very bad tradition at that. MY husband usually gets Marshmallow Peppes and we roast them over the gas stove. Yum!

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  24. Anonymous2:32 AM

    I remember the new Easter dresses my mom for me and my sister. I made the new Easter dresses for my girls and this year will be making them for my two granddaughters that are 1 year old. They will wear them to church and then come to grandmas for dinner and an egg hunt, can't wait.
    Thanks, love your blog, Jan
    jmillerts@hotmail.com

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  25. Oh the memories! Pretty new dresses from my Grandma's children's clothing store, with new white gloves, purses and pretty hats to coordinate, of course. Easter morning began with Easter baskets with funky things like new socks, or when old enough...nylons! Then off to church for a pancake breakfast served by my father and all the other men, followed by Easter service complete with the Hallelujah Chorus and tons of beautiful Easter lilies. Then home or to grandma's for a big family dinner and the egg hunt. What fun we cousins had finding and then eating those eggs! Then came loads of desserts,one of which was a bunny shaped cake we often made out of two round cakes. Now the traditions continue with our eight kiddos...only we put a bit more emphasis on the Lord's resurrection and less on the "Easter stuff". Still so special! Julie

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