Easter Plans?

[PrincessFiona]

Does anyone have anything fun planned?

Kelly is coming up with Cade on Friday and we're having a sleepover Saturday she's going to go for a run...and we're going to go to an easter egg hunt weather permitting...or have one here at the house.....


Does anyone else have some special plans?

Kris

[DCJenn]

Well, nothing too exciting. The "Easter Bunny" sent me some Cadbury Creme Eggs and a little ceramic bunny filled with M & M's for my spouse. I love those Cadbury Creme eggs, but I have found that people either love them or loathe them. (My husband being in the loathe camp!)

I found a fun and funky Easter Dress at the local Vintage store- a 60's cotton shift with a truly obnoxious floral pattern. We're meeting friends for brunch at a local restuarant on Sunday. Saturday we're going to a BB-Q and Friday night we're meeting some Sikh friends at the local Indian place (Good Friday not being a holiday for them after all)

All in all, I hope it's a nice weekend of friendship and reflection.

Jenn

[SueC]

We've got a slew of family coming into town. My sister flew in yesterday, my parents get here tonight and my in-law's arrive Friday I think. Today my sister plans to color Easter eggs with the girls and making a bunny cake. I imagine we'll do an egg hunt at some point and hopefully make it to church. The girls are looking forward to seeing everyone, so it should be fun. I only wish we were still having our warm weather that we were experiencing just a few days ago!

We are planning on the town Easter egg hunt on Saturday. Supposed to be rain and 60, I promised Drew he could wear his raincoat and duck boots if it is raining. My MIL is here now so we are going to church tonight, and this weekend as well.
Other than that, we are undecided if we want a baby over Easter weekend or not. If it doesn't happen on its own, it will happen on the 22nd for sure.

Jenn, I love the Cadbury eggs too. My wife, can't stand them either!

[houseelf]

Ding, ding, ding---We have a winner for most exciting weekend plans! Matt---BEST OF LUCK WITH THE BABY!!!! How exciting for you all! You get yourself back on line as soon as possible after that little one arrives and tell us everything.

Me and the little guy will visit Kris's family this weekend. On Sunday, hubby is off call and we are going to have an easter egg hunt, if I can bring myself to quit eating all the Easter candy beforehand so that some candy remains!

Kelly

[Auspicious]

We're having a bit of Easter drama. Our normal agreement, as I've mentioned before, is Thansgiving with my family and Easter with my boyfriend's family. I'll try to keep the story short, but basically a couple weeks ago my boyfriend's mother told him she was planning to file for divorce in the very near future. His parent's have been married for like 35 years, more than 25 of which have been absolutely miserable.

Of course it's an emotionally tumultuous thing, but even so, everyone is very much in support of this idea. The general response has been "What took you so long?" My boyfriend's mother will not be up for Mother Of The Year anytime soon, but everyone agrees that it's his father who's really lead a cruel life.

So anyway, the entire world knows about this plan EXCEPT for his father. His mother's been running a little pre-divorce, behind-the-scenes public relations campaign and doing a few other things my boyfriend finds to be petty and schemeing (sad sad sad). She's planning to have her husband "surprised" at work with the divorce papers, and, if she has her way, a restraining order .

So my boyfriend basically told her "We're not coming for Easter and we're not coming up there at all until this is settled. I want you to be happy and I support you, but I'm not going to sit at Easter dinner and smile and pretend everything is fine when I really know he's about to be hit with a divorce he doesn't even know about yet. It's deceitful and skeevy and I'm not doing it."

So our Easter plans have been cancelled. I think we'll stay home, color some eggs, cook ham for dinner, and go for a long walk in Central Park if it's at all spring-like outside. I hope it's not lame--I usually like spending major holidays around lots of family, and I hope this one doesn't feel like a fizzle. I'm open to any other suggestions of things we might do to make the day seem special even though it's just the two of us.

To soften the blow of having Easter ruined, though, we had an AWESOME Passover seder last night. It was at my boyfriend's sister-in-law's parents' house (if you can follow that) and they this whole festive thing going on and they love having lots of people over for passover so we went and we brought my 23-year-old brother who was visiting from Chicago--it was the first seder for all three of us. It was lots of fun, with all the symbolic ritual and lots of wine and everyone taking turns doing the readings--in Hebrew and English--and seeing my boyfriend and brother in yarmulkes and everyone being really good-natured and all the food . . . if you've never been to a seder and you get invited, definitley go.

Julie -- I agree that going to a Passover seder is a great experience. We went to one a few years back and really enjoyed the opportunity to learn more about an important holiday.
Oh, does your bf's situation with his parents bring back some sad memories. About 2 years ago (actually 2 yrs exactly), I was going through the same thing minus the looming Easter dinner. My mom was planning to divorce my dad (a divorce a long time coming) and I had known about it since Feb. She also delivered the papers to him at work. It gets better but that's another post.....Anyway, I really do feel for your bf and hope that the divorce is swift and as painless as it can be.

Due to the above mentioned divorce, we will be having the Easter parade of relatives and places to be. Well, it's not nearly as bad as Christmas. My dad is babysitting bryn on Sat night (we are getting a couple's massage courtesy of my dad, woohoo!). He will spend the night and do an easter egg hunt with us in the morning. He will stay on for Eric's parents coming over for brunch. My dad helps soften the trauma of having the in-laws over . Then, we shuffle them out the door to go to my mom's house to see her, her sister, and my grandparents. All of this will be enhanced with a sugar-buzzed toddler.

I agree that Matt has the best Easter plans of anyone! Best wishes for a happy, healthy baby headed your way!

[Meenah]

We had a Seder last night night at midnight, just my husband & me because we were both working. He seemed to appreciate my effort. He is going to his parents tonight (in NY) for another seder. I have to work tomorrow. I hope to have brunch with my daughters on Sunday. He is Jewish and I'm not, so we try to accomadate everyone!!!!!
Luanne

[Phoebe]

We are spending Easter weekend close to home. My in-laws are visiting my BIL's family who lives an hour away from us so we are going down there for brunch on Sunday. Tomorrow night we plan to color eggs with our daughter. Should be interesting!

My favorite part of the weekend is that Saturday I have the day to myself to shop or do whatever. He is spending the day with our daughter and probably going to visit his parents. This will only be the second day in 18 months he has taken care of our daughter alone. I think he is due.

Matt, keep us posted of any new arrivals!

Happy Easter/Passover everyone!

Jennifer

Having an Easter Egg hunt fo the girls if it doesn't rain and a nice turkey dinner before Don goes to work.

[Rapunzel]

This is going to be the first Easter I haven't had any plans. The kids and I are all sick and my husband is working 105 hours per week on this night rotation (so he gets to be home during the day for a few hours - to sleep). I think this is going to be "the Easter that wasn't" at my house this year. Boy, am I a downer today or what!?!

How did everyone's plans turn out? Any fun Easter stories?

Frank's parents "ditched" us to go to their other house in Chincoteague (we were invited, but didn't want to make the long trip). So I decided to make Easter dinner for the two of us. And from this attempt, I found out that my oven is broken. It heats up, but doesn't retain heat. So the ham was cold in the middle and the potatoes didn't get hot enough to fully cook right. The green bean casserole turned out okay. Luckily I bought a fully cooked ham so we cut it up and microwaved it.

All in all, it was a bit of a disaster, but it wasn't my fault so I let it go. Frank was awesome about it...we enjoyed what we salvaged of the meal!

Everyone else? Passover? Go to church?

Sharon

[Meenah]

We had a seder (see above) and on Easter Sunday I changed the oil in the lawnmower and cut the grass for the first time this season!!!! Then we had Easter dinner Sunday night with my daughters.
Luanne
Luanne