My Flash of Easter Bunny Brilliance

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It isn't often I have moments of brilliance.  Generally speaking I would say I rely on the brilliance of others and then set about to make brilliant things happen.  You can imagine, then, that those rare flashes of brilliance are quite remarkable!

In the last week of term I was teaching a Prep/1 class in a Christian school.  Easter and Christmas are the most challenging seasons in such a school when it comes to beliefs around these two important church celebrations.  And the challenge centres around this:  To Easter Bunny/Santa or Not to Easter Bunny/Santa.

In our house, we chose to go without bunnies and santas and whatever other things are not strictly about the Biblical reason behind these celebrations.  We have reasons for our decisions, but we hold absolutely no judgement on those who take the opposite approach.  It is such a personal choice.  You can imagine then, in a Christian school, where there is a fair portion of the population in either camp that kids get confused.  Some proclaim the Easter Bunny fictitious and others are determined it is real.  This is one argument I was adamant my own children were to avoid.  I told them they had no right to ruin things for another child when their parents had made a decision that was different from ours.

So what does one do when the children in front of you are beginning this debate? 
"My Mum says there is no Easter Bunny!" 
"What do you mean?  Of course there is an Easter Bunny.  Where do you think the eggs come from?" 

I put a stop to the debate right there.  And in my moment of brilliance I told my precious little people this:
"Some parents get the Easter Bunny to help them deliver eggs, and some parents choose not to have the Easter Bunny help.  It is up to your parents how that works at your house".

Disaster averted.  Both camps allowed to hold their beliefs. 

Brilliance indeed.

Good Friday

"It's Friday...but Sunday's Coming!"

Easter Traditions

I'm slowly but surely working my way through my to-do list this week.

• Some homework done
  
• Preparation for Women's Retreat done
  
• Book review, baking done and more baking today
  
• More homework more to do
  

I seem to be spending far too much of my time in front of the computer, as all but the baking requires the use of such technology.

I'm now beginning to prepare for Easter. I've done my menu plan ~ found some very cute graphics in ClipArt. It looks very reminiscent of Spring rather than Autumn...but I like the cheery bright colours and happy faces. I wish I could cut and paste it to blogger, but somehow I can't seem to figure it out! If you search under the tag 'floral', you'll eventually find a row of flowers that look like they've been drawn by a young child. That would be the one!

As I consider what we'll get up to over a long weekend, that is full of significance to us, I ponder about food. Food is such an inherent part of all kinds of celebrations in, I would suggest, all cultures around the world. In the past, we've spent Easter at a friend's parents home. Then we've had some years where we've done our own thing and have wandered about in somewhat of a traditions desert. I'm just beginning to decide what it is I want to pass on to my family.

Foods help make Easter special to us, and turn our hearts towards great love and sacrifice that God gave us in Jesus' death and resurrection. Hot cross buns remind me of the cross of Jesus, which Jesus was crucified upon, on Good Friday. I plan to make hot cross buns on Friday with the kids. Roast lamb reminds me of how the Jews celebrated Passover, which happened right at the time of the Easter story. The lamb reminds me that Jesus was the perfect sacrificial lamb and that I no longer need to continue with the Levitical practice of sin offerings.

Then of course, there are those yummy chocolate eggs ~ not bunnies or chickens. Eggs. Eggs that symbolise the new life that Jesus gives me. Hollow eggs that remind me of Jesus' resurrection ~ that He is risen and alive.

What Easter traditions have you passed on in your family?