{"id":540,"date":"2013-03-31T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T12:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2017-03-30T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:44:43","slug":"easter-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/31\/easter-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Easter is kind of a weird holiday for our family.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t yet established what the holiday is for us.\u00a0 We aren\u2019t the go-to-church-for-the-resurection-of-Christ type people, but we aren\u2019t the \u201cThe Easter Bunny\u2019s coming!\u201d type either.\u00a0 I look at Easter as a family holiday as growing up I always spent the day with my extended family, but we haven\u2019t always had extended family around since our girls were born.<\/p>\n

\"HHoneybun’s\u00a0first Easter my siste<\/span>r was in town.\u00a0 We started the tradition of filling an Easter basket for the girls to find (though we don\u2019t really talk about the Easter Bunny bringing it\u2026they\u2019ve never asked).\u00a0 That year we also attended a family picnic at one of hubby\u2019s co-workers\u2019 house.\u00a0 It was a fun day with Easter Egg hunt and time with friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"HThe next year we were back in Florida after having just moved to Ireland.\u00a0 We were staying with my Aunt and Uncle and this was the year Honeybun\u00a0bumped her head on the table and ended up in the hospital (see “Sharing Love and Time”).\u00a0 She was able to at least get her basket unpacked but we missed breakfast, dinner and all the other festivities my Aunt had planned for her.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sugarplum’s first Easter we were in Dublin, just the four of us. \u00a0We did our own thing at home Easter day but the week before we attended a Easter party with our play group which was so much fun.\u00a0 The kids got all dressed up and we had an Easter Egg hunt and just enjoyed each other\u2019s\u2019 company.<\/p>\n

Last year we were winding down our time in Europe so decided to take the extra-long holiday time to travel. \u00a0We did Easter baskets at home with my parents who were visiting the weekend before Easter and again attended the playgroup’s annual party and then we took a trip to\u00a0<\/span>Vilnius, Lithuania<\/a>; Vienna, Austria and ended up in Budapest, Hungary for the actual day.\u00a0 Throughout our trip we were able to experience Easter traditions in each city and on Easter day attended the first annual Easter Festival at Buda Castle (we didn\u2019t realize until we got home that the festival was not an every year thing!).\u00a0 During the festival the girls were able to enjoy traditional dancing, music and food. \u00a0Honeybun\u00a0still talks about the \u201cHungary Dancers\u201d (funny if you\u2019ve ever been a part of the ballet world\u2026) and hubby and I can\u2019t stop thinking about the \u201cK\u00fcrt\u0151skal\u00e1cs\u201d, a traditional sweet bread which we are still formulating a plan for home making!<\/span><\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s Easter we plan to do baskets at home in the morning and will be joining my Aunt, Uncles, and Cousins for dinner. \u00a0Honeybun\u00a0keeps asking when we are going to see the Easter bunny (though she also told me \u201cAuntie said it\u2019s just a guy in a costume\u201d) so will hopefully get to go somewhere for an Easter egg hunt and visit with the bunny over the weekend also.<\/p>\n

Whether you celebrate Easter, Passover, something else or nothing at all, I hope you also take the time to celebrate your family and the wonderful gift THEY are!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easter is kind of a weird holiday for our family.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t yet established what the holiday is for us.\u00a0 We aren\u2019t the go-to-church-for-the-resurection-of-Christ type people, but we aren\u2019t the \u201cThe Easter Bunny\u2019s coming!\u201d type either.\u00a0 I look at Easter as a family holiday as growing up I always spent the day with my extended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[582,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-celebrations","category-tiny-travellers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12796,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/12796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}