Apr
10
Question #30
ByAs we head into this fun and meaningful Easter weekend, I’d love for you to share your plans.
Will you be able to spend time with family?
Will you be traveling?
What delicious dishes will grace your table on Sunday?
God bless your holiday weekend!
I’ll be spending the day at home with my kids. My family are all in the States and my hubby is deployed. Maybe the kids and I will load up in the car and go for a Sunday drive so I can get to know the roads better around here. The plan is turkey breast and veggies for dinner. :-)
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My husband is a minister so he had a Munday Thursday Service a Good Friday service and of course an Easter service to prepare for this week,next to Christmas it’s his busiest week of the year.
We will be having a big dinner Sunday with Turkey as no one seems to like Ham. then looking forward to a week of him having a vacation.
(btw I read your blog all the time but never comment)
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We are having dinner here with my parents,my youngest sister, my older sister and her 3 kids and my sis-in-law and her 2 kids. My brother has to work and my other sister lives out of state. We are having homemade lasagna, salad, garlic toast, and Easter bunny cake. The kids are going to have a scavenger hunt for Easter eggs. Each egg will have a clue for where the next egg is. The older kids will have more challenging clues. I’m really looking forward to it all.
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My husband and I will be staying here in our city. As we are the pastors of our church we are very busy, and we love celebrating Easter with our church family! As such, our Easter dinner will be on Saturday so that we can celebrate that special time together. We’re serving our “traditional” family meal: roast lamb, veggies, potato croquettes, and kugel for dessert. :) Yum! On Sunday we’re blessed to enjoy another meal with a family from our church. Happy Easter to you and yours!
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Hope you have a blessed Easter!
We live very close to my parents, and my mom offered to do Easter, so the three boys hubby and I will head over there after church on Sunday for an Easter egg hunt and dinner (ham, green bean casserole, and key lime pie– a random collection of some of our favorites!)
Blessings~
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We will celebrate with our church family in Beijing first. Our twelve year old son is part of a dance group that will perform.
Next we will go to a chinese resturant with another family and spend some time. Then we will head home and color our light brown eggs. Our oldest son and his wife will join us for dinner, but we will miss being with the grandparents, two other married kids and their spouses. It is hard to be over seas for holidays.
For dinner we will NOT have ham, they don’t really do ham here. At least not how we think of it. SO I am making chicken curry with crescent rolls. Ihave to have a least one traditional food!!
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I will start Easter by fixing some whole wheat blueberry scones and your homemade turkey sausage for breakfast for my husband and I, then we will probably head to my parents’ church for their service. The church Ryan and I are apart of is in its infancy and doesn’t have Sunday morning services yet, but we wanted to attend somewhere.
Then for dinner, we’ll head about 5 minutes away to my parents’ for Easter dinner with my mom’s family: aunts, uncles, cousins…the whole lot! And perhaps one of the best parts will be getting to see my new little niece who is only six weeks old!
I believe for dinner we’ll have pork tenderloin, hash brown casserole, and other goodies–I am in charge of bringing a chocolate dessert!
Blessings to you and yours this Easter!
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It’s a bit odd for us this year. My husband is active duty Air Force and is having a HUGE inspection this week and it includes the weekend… He is only allowed off Sunday morning and has to report to work by 1. We didn’t know until yesterday how much time he would have off so I have not planned a meal. We will attend resurrection service at our church and then we will come home for a simple meal. We will also be reading the easter story again with our children and discussing the significance of Jesus’ death and resurrection (we’ve actually been studying it all week with the 5 y/o).
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We’ll be going to a big family dinner on Sunday afternoon after church service. I’ll be bringing a NY style cheesecake & a broccoli casserole. YUM!
My little ones & I have also been spending time together reading simple stories of Jesus death/resurrection in story-time type Bibles & plan on making resurrection cookies today as a hands-on activity to help the message come alive a bit in their hearts :>)
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The 4 of us will go to SS, church, then come home for Ham, sweet potatoes, green beans, angel eggs and rolls. We usually take Sunday afternoon naps, but this Sunday we will play games, review the Easter story and maybe even have a campfire.
Happy Resurrection Day!
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This Easter my fiance and I will be meeting up with my mom, younger sister, and grandparents at the beach here in So Cal for lunch on the sand. We’re not traveling per se, since the beach we’re heading to is just about five miles away from our house.
I’m planning to put together a not-so-fancy but filling breakfast of freezer waffles with eggs and bacon, we’re having a picnic for lunch while dinner cooks nice and slow on the counter top. Dinner will be a small beef brisket with roasted potatoes and a fresh loaf of beer bread.
My son is with his father this weekend, but he comes home to me on Sunday evening right around dinner time. We’ll surprise him with his first Easter basket then (he’s only 2 1/2 years old). I’m so excited!
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Our church has service on Saturday & Sunday, so in a few minutes we will start getting ready for church. After services on Sunday, we will join my parents and his parents for a low key dinner.
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We’ll be celebrating at the US Ambassador’s residence here in Ankara, with an Easter Cantata that my husband is directing. Then a brunch with bacon, sausage, pancakes served by a few men in our church. We’ll have an Easter egg hunt for the kids after that. My son, and a friend of ours and her daughter’s came over yesterday to color the easter eggs we’re contributing to the hunt!
We asked my 4 yr old today who rose from the dead on Easter, and he was able to say “Jesus!” He is Risen Indeed!
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This is not how we planned it: our parents aren’t able to visit and both boys are sick. So we won’t even be going to church tomorrow.
We’ll have “church at home” which the boys enjoy and we’ll hunt plastic eggs and play. Then we might have ham and turkey – from the deli. Or I might have time to make a meatloaf. Depends on how much mommy time the boys need. They need a lot when they’re sick. This isn’t how I thought it would be, but we’ll make the most of it!
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Easter is our holiday to spend alone — just us and the kids. Nope, no travelling for us, but we will likely visit with grandma and grandpa sometime during the weekend.
We have two more days of our Ressurection egg devotional and the kids really enjoyed reading the Bible passages to go with each egg this year. We will go to Sunday morning services at 9:30am after a breakfast of cinnamon rolls, sausages, fruit and maybe some yogurt. We will probably skip lunch and have an early dinner of glazed spiral ham, baked macaroni and cheese, roasted asparagus, angel eggs, rolls, pineapple, homemade bread and butter pickles and cottage cheese. Fresh carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for dessert — yum! Good thing we eat like this only at Easter. I don’t think my cholesterol could handle it otherwise!
I hope everyone has a blessed Ressurection Sunday.
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I’m fixing lunch for my grandparents and parents, brother & sister. All is done and ready for tomorrow – ham, dressing, make ahead mashed potatoes, green salad, corn, “deviled” eggs, rolls, dessert, tea & lemonade. :) We have service in the morning, we’ll come and eat, then service tomorrow night with communion and feet washing. ;)
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I will be cooking lunch for my parents and grandmother. I tried to keep the menu simple: salad of dandelion greens, lettuce, radishes, and cucumbers; veggie pot pie; and banana cream pie for dessert. Mmmmm…
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We did not go anywhere this year, and it was kind of nice to just go to church and then home and not have to worry about cooking for extra or driving. We made pancakes with choice toppings, syrup, whipped cream, strawberries, raspberries, peanut butter and choc chips. We also had eggs, toast, sausage, jellies and raw milk and coffee. Yum!
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