What do you usually do on Easter weekend? What does it mean to you? Do you crave and eat lots of chocolates or what?

My Easter I had as a child is a little different than what I have now, but not much. Then, we had a Sunrise Service with breakfast ahead of the service. My parents (and later I) often took part in it.

Afterwards, we'd come home to Easter Dinner, not a terribly big affair with just 5 people; and then a mini-Easter egg hunt--meaning just two kids and not a lot to find. Some years there was no service so we'd get up and find our Easter baskets first thing, go to church, have dinner, and then the egg hunt. Everything was over by about 1:30 in the afternoon.

Now, my kids get up and see their baskets and have a sugar-fest for breakfast (which explains a lot). We head to church, where they have an egg hunt during Sunday School. We come home, change clothes, grab the food we're bringing, and head to my husband's family pitch-in Easter dinner.

There are about 20 people. We eat first (since no one's had lunch) and then there is a huge egg hunt for all the kids. We usually end up hanging out all day.

Some years, we've done yet another egg hunt at whatever local church is having one before Easter. So these kids are ALL candied out by the end of it! Me?

I try to stay out of the kids' candy. Even harder now that I literally can't have it! I'm going to have to go get a few sugar-free things that I can have amidst all the mounds of candy everyone will be crowing about.

And I'm taking a sugar-free Pavlova so I can have something yummy. I don't like feeling deprived on a holiday! Since you mentioned candy, I've mostly concentrated on that.

But there is a big spiritual aspect of it for us as well. We've gone to Passover sedars a couple of times over the years as well.

To Me, Easter means visiting relatives and Having a big dinner, On a religious level , it is to celebrate passover. For my family, It is tradition to go to Church. We then have an Easter Egg hunt for the kids outside in the backyard.

Visiting with the family on holidays is always nice and Easter Dinner is always very good with lots of food which usually consists of Baked Honey Ham, mashed potatoes & gravy, candied yams, cranberry sauce, and dinner rolls, along with the spread of snacks that is put out before hand. I used to eat a lot of chocolate on easter, Hollow chocolate bunnies and what not, but now I like jelly beans and reeces peanut butter eggs! But what I REALLY, REALLY love are those Cadbury Creme Eggs!

Wow are those good! Happy Easter!

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