Easter Traditions

Answer to question from the last post about how far the average professional midfielder soccer player runs in one game:  EIGHT MILES….isn’t that awesome, especially considering that most of that is SPRINTING.   They are hardcore.

Workout:  7 miles on the treadmill.  I was going to go to the gym to cross train this morning but as I walked by my treadmill to head out the door it literally started calling my name and I couldn’t resist.  I will cross train tomorrow, I will cross train tomorrow….unless I feel like running:)

Snack of the day (in addition to string cheese(S), pretzels and wheat thins):

Photo on 4 5 12 at 8 24 AM  3

Sunshine Chips from Nature Box (sweet potato, squash, taro, carrot and green bean chips).   Veggies and chip/crunchy/salt craving satisfied in one snack:)

———————-

Starting in just a few (okay, okay 5) months I will be making some new little family holiday traditions, stuff like that gets me beyond excited.  I think you know if you have been reading longer than 2 posts that family and spending time with them is the most important thing in the world to me.  I started thinking about the traditions we did as kids around Easter time…..

1.  We ALWAYS colored hardboiled eggs the night before Easter using PAAS coloring and stickers.

Screen Shot 2012 04 05 at 10 46 36 AM

Now for the grandkids easter egg hunt they fill up the plastic eggs with money and candy, hence why sometimes I push them out of the way to get to them first.  I am ashamed.

Screen Shot 2012 04 05 at 10 57 21 AM

(He is just acting really sad for the picture, I promise. I am his favorite)

2.  We would wake up on Easter morning and eat ORANGE ROLLS (please tell me you have had those) while checking out our Easter baskets.  They were filled with peeps, jelly beans, chocolate eggs filled with marshmallows and a giant bunny.  The bigger the bunny we got each year = my parents were happy with us and we must have been good.  I have no idea who this child is but his parents must really love him.

Screen Shot 2012 04 05 at 10 50 10 AM

3.  When we were little my mom would always make us an ‘Easter Dress’ and take 400 pictures of us in them, maybe that is why I post a million pictures of myself on the internet?  When we got older she would take us shopping for a new Easter Dress.  For some reason she won’t keep doing this for her 26 year old.

Janae+Rachelle

4.  A big easter dinner of ham, 3 different potato dishes and fluffy rolls.  For dessert we would have cake topped with more Easter candy (okay, I was the only one that would add candy on top of the cake). I may or may not be counting down the hours until I this week’s Sunday dinner and the awesome Easter basket Billy will be giving me (hint, hint).

————————————————–

If you celebrate Easter, what were some of your Easter traditions?  Did you color eggs? Have an Easter egg hunt?

What was in your Easter basket?

Do you know how to sew?  Did your mom ever make you your clothes?

-I do know how to sew, I used to make teddy bears, blankets, aprons and even some jumpers when I was younger.

Random question for bloggers:  Do your husbands/wives/boyfriends/girlfriends read your blog?

-Yes, and he always reads the comments too:)  It is fun because I can leave hints all over the place for him.

You May Also Like

60 comments

Reply

My husband does read my blog, but he’s super secretive about it and never says anything. It’s just an unspoken fact. Weirdo.

Also, you pushing a child is my new favorite photo.

Reply

HAHAHA that is awesome that he is secretive about it. It probably is the highlight of his day to read your blog:) Glad you liked the picture, I may reenact it this year:)

Reply

We always had a egg hunt and Easter brunch but no Easter supper. Which is more than okay with me. And we still host brunch but at our house now!
We always got lots of candy (Mini Eggs, Kinder Surprises, Jelly Bellies, Reese’s!), then usually 4-5 other goodies, books/magazines, CDs, a shirt, lip gloss – little things.
I took sewing classes when I was younger and bought a sewing machine last summer – it still hasn’t been used…
My husband reads it rarely, when he does and then tells me I am shocked! Unless I leave it open on the computer then he might read it.

Reply

Brunch is a great idea, I might have to copy that and the non-food things in your Easter basket…love it!

Reply

My boyfriend reads my blog :D
… but he doesn’t comment, haha.

Reply

When did you first tell him about your blog?

Reply

I told him the second day that I blogged.
He’s at least really nice about taking pictures of me and he’s totally used to me snapping pictures of everything (although… I used to do that before I blogged, too).

Reply

We always had an Easter egg hunt using real eggs. Sometimes we didn’t find all of them and would find a smelly one months later..LOL. As we got older, my dad started making it harder and money went to the one who found the most. It got vicious at times and we’ve been known to trip each other. Happy Easter!

Reply

OH MY GOODNESS…that is hilarious that you didn’t find all of them some years. MONEY, that is awesome!

Reply

u+Billy are gonna have the cutesttttt bebe!!!!!

we always had to find our Easter baskets and they were filled with candy that we’d sneak with us to church and then eat more after :):)

we never really did am egg hunt.

I can sew but don’t have a machine. I can NOT follow a pattern tho, way too impatient!! :):)

Reply

I am SOOO excited for Easter this Sunday because I gave up dessert for Lent and CANNOT wait to eat Cadbury eggs (my fav)/copious amounts of chocolate/birthday cake (for my sis) and possibly some fro yo. It should be a good time ;)

Reply

My husband knows (and makes fun of) my blog, but doesn’t read! I don’t care to know about his car/motorcycle ogling online habits, so that’s fine. :)

Reply

I LOVE traditions. So, we will be making eggs tomorrow. I should get the sticker kind. My daughter would love that!
I can sew and I’ve got some SUPER cute patterns if you are having a girl!
And since your husband is reading this..Hi Billy! Hope you are taking great care of your pregnant wife and buying her lots of yogurtland and cheese. :)

Reply

We have similar easter traditions!! I always loved the chocolate bunny- my brothers and I would have a competition so see whose bunny could last the longest. Also we’d use the hollowed bunnies as cups for our breakfast haha- man, good times. For my future family I would the tradition of waking up before sunrise in Easter Sunday, driving to a place where we can see the sunset, eating breakfast, and reading the easter verses in the scriptures.

Reply

Happy Easter! Yes, Lane reads my blog and the comments…and every now and again he comments. Too funny :)

So we go to Easter service on the beach. It’s beautiful! Waves crashing, hot coffee and worship. There is nothing like it! We then head back to my parents house and cookout, color eggs and the kids go on the hunt! We also fill eggs with money and candy. Its a blast.

Hope you have a great weekend with the fam Janae!!

Reply

What a cute picture!!! I never really had easter traditions except for getting baskets in the morning and going to church and sometimes we would have a hunt.
Candy, chocolate, candy, and more candy,
My mom has never made my clothes, I would be scared if she did. But she used to always try to make me wear dresses and I haaaaated them when I was younger!

Reply

My mom did pretty simple baskets- coloring books, candy, maybe a cool little toy. These days people go crazy- it’s like Christmas!

My husband glances at my blog, occasionally. He seems pretty disinterested, which I tell myself is a ploy. If he had a blog I’d stalk it!

Oh, and when the treadmill calls my name I usually tell it to shut up :) And then I feel bad and give in.

Reply

My mom is great at sewing. I, on the other hand, have no clue whatsoever about sewing. Good for you, for knowing how to sew! That’s awesome!

And yes, Brandon reads my blog. He checks it every morning to see if I’ve posted anything new. ;)

Reply

Coloring Easter eggs is a must!

I try to encourage all of the people who I know in real life to not read my blog!!:) It’s less awkward that way. But I can always tell who does because they know things I didn’t tell them in person.

Reply

We always colored eggs and had an Easter egg hunt. I’ll admit that we kept doing the Easter egg hunt up until recently. Very recently. But my parents put money in the plastic eggs so there’s no way my brother and sisters and I were going to give that up. I’ll do anything for free money! Plus, its fun.

Reply

OMG, my husband (G) reads AND comments on about 99% of my blog posts. And he says ridiculous stuff to me. I will call him an idiot throughout an entire post and then he’ll say I’m beautiful. Gross. And embarrassing.

Reply

Our entire family and extended family all go to my uncles house for lunch, an egg hunt for everyone ($100 grand prize egg!), horseback riding and kite flying. Wish I was in KC with them this year. =(

I know how to sew and own a two sewing machines. But I don’t have a sewing room at this house, so I haven’t done it in awhile.

No one knows about my blog except for my two daughters! =)

Reply

First, thankyoufor posting so often! I found myself wondering what you were up to as I was eating crackers and thinking on running…i came to check and there was another post! Hooray!
Your easter traditions are about the same as my family’s..right down to the easter dresses!
I somewhat sew…i’ve made jumpers, curtains, pilllows and simple bags…i haven’t sewn recently, but since my mom got me a machine I’ll have to figure it out after I get my degree :)
I think y husband reads my blog when I ask him if he has, but mostly it is just my thing. I have to leave hints in different ways. Haha.

Reply

Ditto. I am always looking for something to read. I read when I’m unloading the dishwasher for heavens sake. Do you think we put too much pressure on her to blog so much??

Reply

Jess totally reads my blog :) I’ll have to start taking up your hint idea!

I am just now learning to sew, my MIL and SIL are really good…I watch mostly LOL

Reply

I’m just about to set up the Egg/hamburger lolly hunt! It’s midday so I hope the kids are quick about finding their chocolate, I added lolly’s to the Haribo Hamburger’s to the hunt this year, just a tad different:)

Reply

Definitely had that same Easter dress tradition and my Mom stopped doing it a few years ago too – lame! My Mom keeps up the candy even without the basket – she sent me a “care package” full of jelly beans, a big chocolate bunny and other Easter goodies this week!

Reply

we used to make baskets and fill them with hay (I grew up on a farm!) and leave them at the end of our beds. then in the morning they would be filled with eggs from the easter bunny! :).
also- we always ALWAYS have hot cross buns. From reading american blogs though I am wondering if this is just an australian thing/maybe english as well?
Hot cross buns are the best. they have spices and sultanas in them and now come in versions like choc chip which is my fave! you heat them up and coat them in butter. I had one for breakfast this morning- SO GOOD!
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/7695/hot+cross+buns

they are called that because there is a cross on each bun made of a flour paste (i suppose that is religious ‘the cross’) although I have never thought of them that way!
anyway they are delicious

Reply

We would die eggs and then fill them with confetti and then hide them in the yard. Everyone would run out to find them and then crush each other with them. I love confetti eggs! We always had a large chocolate bunny, jelly beans, starbursts, and peeps! I do know how to sew, although it has been a really long time. I have made blankets, pillow cases, and quillows (quilts that turn into pillows). Yes, my husband reads my blog!

Reply

I have been reading for a few months and never commented but just have to tell you thanks for the new snack addiction of pretzels and cheese. I now must have it every single day!

Reply

Growing up I always colored eggs and had egg hunts. I told Rick we will be coloring eggs again this year. We may even get crazy and have an egg hunt, haha. My grandparents always got us chocolate bunnies (I always got white chocolate) and my parents got us baskets with lots of other good stuff like more candy, clothes, toys,etc.

I don’t know how to sew at all but I do know how to crochet :)

Enjoy Easter weekend with your family!

Reply

I totally make my fiance color Easter eggs with me every year. I’m 27, and we don’t have children. Bonus: He’s really good at art and I love to look at his eggs (I just typed ‘legs’ there. I need sleep).

Reply

mm. When I was a kid we would all have new Easter dresses and my dad would go to the grocery store and get us all those little grocery store corsages for church. Do you remember those? You can still find them I think. I loved that. Talk about special. Flowers on your dress.

Raising my kids we filled Easter baskets and there was a favorite basket and there were some not so favorites. We hid them all over the house. You had to hope you got the good color. It was the purple one. Over the years they morphed that so everyone just claimed one. Then the kids would wake up and find theirs and then help everyone else find each others.

Yes, I can sew. I can do anything. And no, no one reads my blog. But he reads my FB statuses and that’s ok. :)

Reply

We have the same tradition of coloring eggs with the PAAS kit the night before…note I say “have!” I am 26, my older brother just turned 29 and my younger brother will be 24 in a couple of weeks but we still all go to my parents’ to do this :) My mom only just quit hiding eggs around the house for us a couple of years ago hehe Our baskets had all kinds of stuff and believe it or not, us kids always fought over the black jelly beans! I know most people hate those ones but we all LOVE licorice!!

I actually was in 4-H sewing for 10 years and took it pretty seriously lol I made it to States twice, once with the prom dress I made for myself! Yes, I am a grade A nerd!!!

I just can’t wait till you and Billy have the baby! He or she is going to be the cutest ever and you will be such awesome parents. I love how close you both are to your families!

p.s. Hi Billy!!

Reply

Hi Lauren! p.s. black licorice jelly beans are nasty.

Reply

I love the idea of getting a new dress for Easter. When I was a little girl, my mom would go all out. New dress, shoes, hat and gloves. :)

I can cross-stitch, but can’t really sew anything else! :)

Reply

Yep my hubby reads my blog and comments. He gets excited when someone he “knows ” comments.

Love the dress pic!

Reply

I like all your traditions :)
You look adorable in the easter dress!!
I always looked forward to do the egg hunt and decorating hard boiled eggs.. I’ll have to start a new tradition for my baby girl! Maybe next year though.. she’s a liiiiitle too small to do an egg hunt now :)

Reply

ahhh love those traditions!! especially the easter dresses haha they were pretty special (i wore them too)

my husband does read my blog…and a lot of his family does too so i have to watch what i say haha..like grandparents, parents, etc. sometimes i forget and then they bring up things i talked about and i feel weird haha

Reply

awwww i love your traditions! Super jealous of you having your nieces / nephews around for Easter.

Easter is my fave holiday I think (uh hence the name ‘faster bunny’…get it get it?). It’s probably my fave because we celebrated Easter twice – the Greek Orthodox Easter and the Western Easter (they usually fall on different weeks!). Double the candy and eggs hunts!!

Reply

I wish we had an Easter tradition! My mom used to buy us candy but she stopped doing that years ago. So uncool.
My boyfriend reads my blog. He pokes fun at me for blogging, but I think he secretly likes when I mention him :)

Reply

I’ve found it’s MUCH harder to be a treat loving momma than a treat loving non-momma. I bought Easter candy a week ago and stashed it in my closet. 1/2 of it is already gone. My poor kids will only have a couple of jelly beans at the rate I’m going!

Growing up, we celebrated Easter all weekend. My mom would do baskets, candy and eggs (you know, “secular” stuff) on Saturday and Sunday would be dresses for church, and a family dinner, more of a spiritual focus on Sunday. But I still had candy from the day before, so, that was awesome.

Reply

I love Easter SO SO SO much!! I am so excited because this year is the first year I’ll be home for Easter in a couple of years. My mom totally did the Easter dress thing too! We have lots of pictures of me and my younger sister in matching frilly Easter dresses with Easter hats! Thankfully, we have kept the Easter dress tradition alive but now we buy our dresses instead. Ha

And lets be serious, Easter has the best candy of all the holidays. Hands down. Who cannot get excited about Reeses eggs, Cadbury mini-eggs, and starburst jelly beans?!

Reply

Ahhh I’ve been reminiscing about all these easter tradition- dying eggs wtih PAAS and those dorky stickers and those plastic things that you boiled onto the egg- LOVED IT!! Easter dresses- yes. Easter egg hunts-ofcourse!! Now I just need to start training my South African hubby in these amazing Easter activities :)Will have to have someone send me some egg dye!!

Reply

Oh my goodness the Easter dresses!! Yes – my mom would buy the most elaborate Easter dresses for me and my sister. Too funny. Of course our huge bangs made the dresses look that much cooler – ha.

Brandon grew up eating orange rolls ALL the time. I had never heard of these until we got married and he asked me to buy them. Orange what? We were always a cinnamon roll family but he has expanded my world. :)

Brandon doesn’t ever read my blog. Actually – my friends give him a hard time that he doesn’t. He is totally supportive of the blog and what I choose to write about though and that is all that matters to me.

I had those Nature box sunshine chips and they are awesome! My favorite in the box for sure. :) Happy weekend.

Reply

I would have to say my Easter sounded a lot like your did. I wish my family lived closer because with just me and hubs I don’t really plan on doing much. In fact I don’t think I have been home for Easter in probably 8-10 years! Crazy right!

Those veggie chips look awesome. I am going to have to pick some up!

I LOVE to sew and make stuff, my mom would make us dresses sometimes too.

My husband never reads my blogs. Unless its our family blog but as far as my work or training blog. Nada. He is so lame-o ;)

Reply

My husband reads my blog about once every 2-3 weeks. I think he probably only reads bout 1/4 of the posts and doesn’t comment (or know how to). He does say that he is the blog “whipping boy” because I expose him eating burgers.

I used to sew, but my sewing machine is in the states with my mom. I’m looking forward to getting back into it.

Reply

Orange rolls? Haha no idea what those are. We did an easter egg hunt at my house in the morning, and then we’d go do a huge one at my grandparents. They lived in a nice apartment complex with a huge backyard that looked like an English garden. Somehow our family had it all to ourselves? So they set up a easter egg hunt for all of us out there and we’d have lunch afterwards. But we haven’t done this since I was like 12! I guess easter isn’t a big deal with my family anymore “( Lol I need an easter basket! Maybe I’ll make myself one…

Reply

My parents would do baskets and hide jelly beans around the house.

The Kidless Kronicles

Reply

My husband has delegated himself as my proof reader, unfortunately he waits until after I publish a post to point out mistakes :) We always got a skipping rope and bubbles in put Easter basket – the first sign of spring!

Reply

We usually had an Easter egg hunt at church, and then a big family lunch/dinner with leg of lamb (SO GOOD) and carrot cake for dessert. My mom’s carrot cake (her grandmother’s recipe) is delicious!

My Easter basket always had chocolate, jelly beans (starburst are my favorite), and chocolate covered marshmallow bunnies. I also usually got a new cd or a book in there.

I kind of know how to sew – I did it some when I was in high school – I tried making belts, purses, makeup bags, etc. They were all ugly and it wasn’t fun so I quit ha.

I think Daniel reads my blog sometimes, but a lot of times before I post I read what I wrote to him and ask for feedback.

Reply

My fiance doesn’t read my blog, but his coworkers do so they tell him what I write — haha.

We used to have pretty much all the same Easter traditions! Just not as fun to do when you aren’t near family and don’t have kids. :) I love the idea of the bigger the bunny, the better you were! Smart! My mom used to make our dresses too, ha. :)

Reply

I used to sew all the time. I’ve made clothes for myself and friends, curtains, and I even used to make clothes for my american girl dolls. Now, though, I really only sew if it’s to fix a hem or something.

Mike reads my blog and then will periodically email me if I’ve made a mistake or exaggerated too much. What a weirdo.

We don’t have a lot of easter traditions. My family is bigger on Christmas.

Reply

We always go out for brunch on Easter and get Easter baskets. This year, my dad made a basket for our new puppy, complete with little plastic eggs filled with tiny dog treats :)

Reply

I know how to sew and make my daughter cutesy stuff when I’m feeling inspired. My husband is obsessed with keeping up with my blog. He likes to monitor whether I am blogging too much, blogging too little, blogging when I should be working, and blogging about him.

Reply

Oh I just love Easter!! Such a fun holiday. I have about a dozen pictures of me and my older sister just like that one of you and Rachelle. ha ha so funny!

And I add candy to my cake too. :)

Reply

love Easter, and so sad I’m stuck here bc I have to work Saturday, and my fam is 6+ hours away. at least a coworker is having me over for delish eats!
we always went to mass, then came home to find all the eggs we colored the day before, and hunt for our baskets and small gift, too. then we ate a big breakfast and did the grandparent visits. relaxed and lovely :)

Reply

Peter SUPER SECRETLY reads my blog. His sisters love it because I poke fun at him – and he tries not to say anything.

I had a blogpost once about how he only likes vanilla cake with vanilla frosting. Hence he is a vanilla type of person.

His sisters and I now call him NILLA. He pretends he doesn’t know what it means :)

Reply

Early morning is the best time to shave , sleep due to metabolism to speed up the sebaceous glands ,Bose in ear headphones hair growth quickly . After a long night of And when the skin is more relaxed , shaving can also reduce the chance of scratching .

Reply

I love your blog. You are crazy (which is a compliment coming from me). I am just waaaaaaaaay behind. I don’t know how you manage to post that much.

I actually haven’t told anyone I know that I have a blog. Don’t know why, somehow I am more comfortable with people reading it who actually only know me through the blog (which isn’t that many people).

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *