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I was raised Catholic but we are a non-religious household and DD is too young to understand any of it.
I am starting a new tradition of giving her new winter pjs every Easter instead of chocolate.
DH will get an Easter egg and I will indulge in Hot X Buns.

We are taking DD to the Zoo on Good Friday for the first time and have ILs coming up so DH and I are going to be heading out in the evening and leaving MIL to look after DD for us.

ANZAC don't know where we are going this year, will probably be awful as its the 1st anniversary of last years iriquous crash.

Meeting up with some of the OB Mummies coming to Akl for the holds

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Originally posted by HuntersMama HuntersMama wrote:

We usually go to a chapel service on Anzac Day, which is also Easter this year. We dont really have any Easter traditions yet but I will be hunting out some dairy free easter bunnies/eggs for DS.


The Gluten Free Grocer has a good range of dairy free easter stuff
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I'd love to do an egg hunt, but my dog would eat them as fast as I hid them!
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same fattarts - having a sniffy Beagle dog would not be a good thing in this case!!

we are not going to be doing much, hopefully just a relaxing weekend. We are not religious so no church etc but we also are not into the egg hunt thing. I have never been on one so wouldn't know where to start setting one up . Easter was not a big thing when I was a kid so I am not really into it. We will buy the girls a small egg each but that is all - the grandparents always give them too much anyway


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I am going off the diet, going to eat chocolate, have a wine, chips etc, all the foods that are not diet friendly.

Might go to church, not sure but on the Sunday have a big family catch up, Easter egg hunt and yummy dinner. Followed by more chocolate right up to 11.59pm, then diet again


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Hubby is working thru holidays are his busy times. we will go to mum and dads on sunday and do a hunt with all the other grandkids/greatgrandkids and anzac day will more than likely go to the service with work. didnt go last year cause of ms and i didnt fit into my uniform.

Once emily and charlie are bigger they will have the religous side explained dad is a retired minister so religion is important to me not so much dh though.
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I was brought up to respect Easter as the most important event in the Catholic calendar, even more so than Christmas. Every year we would listen to the Jesus Christ Superstar LP and I would sing my heart out to it, and shed tears at the beautiful heartbreaking story. But we were the 'go to Church every Sunday' type of family, and unfortunately in my own adulthood I have lost that tradition. But I do tell my DD the story of Jesus and as a family we go camping at KeriKeri every Easter and have a big Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday.
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Dunno quite what we will do. Dh "may" take the boys to church...his religion, not mine. We will def do an easter egg hunt. There is a local one organsied on Saturday so that should be fun. Last year I made hot cross buns on Good Friday and they were so yummy that I hope to find the recipe and do them again. But mainly I think we will celebrate the fact that Harvest should be finally over and DH will be able to relax!!!

ANZAC day...normally I play the pipes in a band but since moving down here I havent found that too exciting and being a small town we dont have a big band parade...just one or two pipers and drummers and the others that will play are a) TERRIBLE and b) PITA!! So I might go down to the cemetery and play on my own at my great grandfather's grave....if I still have enough puff to play.
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OMG Nikki 17 weeks already???? Annnd we are hoping to come down over christmas and new year so catch up for sure!
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We don't do the religious aspect, the 2 at school know about it from Bible at school, I was brought up with the religious reasons on it & we went to church & then a family lunch & a few eggs. We do talk about it with them.

We normally go out for a walk to find the Easter bunny, DH looks out the window & says he saw the Easter bunny hop over the fence, after he has put a few little eggs downstairs. Then while I am getting the kids out the door he will put a few inside upstairs & outside. I will get 3 little baskets or boxes for them to put their eggs in & leave them on the front step without them knowing & then we go looking for the Easter bunny around our street.

I am also getting them a few other things, new winter pj's each, sox, book, colouring book or paper, bubbles & the egg hunt will finish with the new pj'j on their beds. The reason I am doing extra stuff is because of the school holidays so a bit of a survival pack & they need new pj's lol.

We are spending about $50-$60 on eggs, I was going to make them but DH is not keen on that. We saw a bag with a bunny & a few little eggs in it for just under $10 so will get the boys one each & a couple of bags of tiny eggs & a box of little eggs for the hunt, also a couple of packets of marshmallow eggs.

I am getting DH an egg also as he is a big kid
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