There are lots of Easter-related things I used to do when I was younger that I loved– dying eggs, easter egg hunts– but sadly, I no longer do them (although I may have to recon­sider the egg-dyeing if it’s bad luck not to). But the one thing I’ve always loved about Easter, ever since I was a kid, are the Peeps (the marsh­mal­low baby chicks). Not exactly eat­ing them, although they are deli­cious, but just see­ing them in stores again just makes me happy.

I love see­ing the col­ors in nature we haven’t seen all win­ter, the pas­tels, the pinks, the greens, the soft pur­ples. It is a soft­en­ing time, not quite time for the vibrant, def­i­nite col­ors of sum­mer, just kind of a hes­i­tancy to make the def­i­nite state­ment of sum­mer; a time to start shed­ding the dark col­ors of win­ter, but a need to show life and a change for not nec­es­sar­ily bet­ter, but dif­fer­ent and new.
Oh, yeah, and all the favorite choco­lates in new and inter­est­ing shapes that you don’t feel so guilty eat­ing because, hey, it is only one time a year.

Renda

Renda

Hi Jen­nifer,

My favorite thing about easter is dying eggs, mak­ing Easter bas­kets, Egg hunt­ing & eat­ing jelly beans. I love Jelly Beans

Hugssss
LindaH

The main thing I love about Easter is that it means spring is here! Oh, and the piles of choco­late, too. Easter was never one of my favorite hol­i­days, but I’m sure that will change next year with the lit­tle one’s first Easter.

What I like about Easter is hav­ing lunch with my fam­ily. We don’t get together a lot, and I usu­ally haven’t seen them since Christ­mas. I also, really like the choco­late bun­nies. haha

Potato salad! Well, potato salad and bbq ham­burg­ers and cad­bury candy. Every year we dye eggs and hide them for the lit­tle kids, then after the eggs are found we peel them. Eggs that peeled pretty are turned into trays of dev­iled eggs, and eggs that peeled ugly go into the potato salad. I spend most of the time mak­ing the salad and hav­ing to chase my my hus­band and my father around with a spat­ula because they wan­der around with forks and stick them into what’s being made to ‘taste test’. Then there is eat­ing with the whole fam­ily until we’re near como­tose and my broth­ers using what­ever eggs are left for an egg toss. But it all starts with potato salad.

~J

My favourite thing about Easter…is the time off. Spent with choco­late Eggies, which are my girlfriend’s favourites :ww:

Col­or­ing the eggs and the egg hunts are the best. Although the egg hunts were a lot eas­ier when the kids where young enough that just throw­ing them around was enough.
Oh, and the con­tests peo­ple have around Easter are good, too :biggrin:

Cad­bury mini-eggs and Dove choco­late eggs. It’s all about the choco­late, bunny.

I am so addicted to those peanut but­ter choco­late eggs. I could eat a whole pack­age and still have room for more! :blossom:

When I was lit­tle, we lived in Cal­i­for­nia and East­er­time truly was spring­time. I still asso­ciate Easter with flow­ers; Easter lilies, daf­fodils, fruit trees bloom­ing, and the sound of bees buzzing.

My favorite thing about Easter is hid­ing the eggs and watch­ing my boys hunt them down. They have so much fun scram­bling to find every last one!