I don't know about you but I do not go all out for Easter. We hardly talk about the Easter bunny. I definitely don't buy the $20 Easter baskets filled with junk. And I really don't buy a lot of gifts. Blame it on my growing up. My friends would act like it was a Spring-time Christmas, getting $200cash from the Easter bunny, 5 new outfits, and then massive baskets from the Easter bunny. Call me an Easter Scrooge if you want, I don't care. We do color Easter eggs. We do have an Easter egg hunt and have the kids get chocolate and have fun. And I did get them new church outfits. And Mike and I give them some kind of gift from Christ. It might be a new book to keep them quiet in church. This year it was cute CTR rings. Not expensive but kid friendly. Especially since Jayne chewed hers up in 10 minutes. But on Easter I was wondering if I am doing my kids a service by focusing more on Christ or am I just making Easter boring. And then I found this video and realized that, for my family, I like our 'traditions'. Just go to Youtube and search Mormon Messages. It is titled "An Apostle's Easter thoughts on Christ" (for some reason I had issues downloading it on the blog). Elder Holland's talk was, by far, my favorite talk during Conference.
But here are some pix to prove I am not an Easter Scrooge.
2 comments:
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who doesn't go all out! Just a few things and an egg hunt at our house too. I think my kids would be just fine with only the egg hunt! Sometimes I think the focus gets lost on all the gifts and not the real meaning of the celebration. Kudos to you!
I'm with you...that's exactly how I like to do Easter.
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