Easter

Easter celebration with my side of the family usually takes place at Green Mill.

Grandma, Grandpa and three of the five grand kids.

Silas got one look at my dad and that was all he wanted.  The minute we got there he reached for Gramps and for the following 20 minutes this is what the scene was.

My sister took Mr. Snuggles so dad could go get food.

And then Griffin got a turn get cuddled up.

And of course we can't forget Grandma!

To us Easter is more than the bunny, eggs, candy, spring attire and even family.  Easter is the most important holiday for Christians and we always look forward to celebrating the resurrection of Jesus and the promise of eternal life! It does make me sad to see how commercialize Easter has become.  I always wondered how we got a Easter bunny from Christ's Resurrection. This is what I found:

"In fact, Easter was originally a pagan festival. The ancient Saxons celebrated the return of spring with an uproarious festival commemorating their goddess of offspring and of springtime, Eastre. When the second-century Christian missionaries encountered the tribes of the north with their pagan celebrations, they attempted to convert them to Christianity. They did so, however, in a clandestine manner. It would have been suicide for the very early Christian converts to celebrate their holy days with observances that did not coincide with celebrations that already existed. To save lives, the missionaries cleverly decided to spread their religious message slowly throughout the populations by allowing them to continue to celebrate pagan feasts, but to do so in a Christian manner. As it happened, the pagan festival of Eastre occurred at the same time of year as the Christian observance of the Resurrection of Christ. It made sense, therefore, to alter the festival itself, to make it a Christian celebration as converts were slowly won over. The early name, Eastre, was eventually changed to its modern spelling, Easter."

I get it. The bunny symbolized fertility.  We all know the most fertile in the animal kingdom is the bunny! And the egg would be like new life. Cleaver.

Now dying eggs bright colors and hiding them, I'm not sure how that came about.....