Easter Sunday Service, Easter Basket on Easter Morning after church. Coloring eggs with my Mom . My Mom would make traditional Easter Cross Buns with colored eggs. My Godmother would always send a huge box of Italian homemade frosted Easter Cookies in shapes of Eggs. Bunnies, and chicks. Easter dinner was always a Baked Ham. Not store bought ! Boy, what a great childhood I had !
My grandma made sugar eggs with small scenes inside. The two halves of the molded sugar egg made it possible to put the scene and add the egg top with icing. Also, lamb shaped pound cake was a tradition.
One thing we didn't have at Easter time, was churches arguing whether we should be celebrating "this pagan holiday." It doesn't matter if we call it Easter or Resurrection Sunday, it remains the most joyful celebration of life conquering death!
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I miss Easter with my family. Such a treasured memory! The holidays we're so, so special growing up. We would always go to my grandpa's (dad's dad) rural ranch in fallbrook Ca. A great place to find eggs. Our dad showed us how by adding oil to the egg dye you can have the most beautiful psychedelic looking eggs. We also got a ton of candy and would snack on hard boiled eggs. Dinner was always the traditional ham, deviled eggs P salad, etc. Didn't have to go to church but my grandpa's blessing at the dinner table was a sermon in if itself. It sure was the best of times and I'm beyond grateful to my mom and dad for these wonderful memories. Thanks for reminding me.
Easter was a magical time because it was associated with early spring - tulips, azalea bushes, cherry blossoms, fragrant crocus flowers, and for the kids - spring break!
I miss the big Easter day with family and friends. It seems like today not many people go all out like they did in the old days. I think people have a great dinner but not the church and getting all dress up like the old days. I miss when everyone got dress up for special occasions . Miss the old days.
I agree. I actually ended up here because I would like to start my own Easter traditions. My family, although Christian, didn't actually do that much. Church, Easter eggs, hot cross buns, that was it. So I'd like to gather some traditions and decorations from around the world and make them my own. It's quite sad Christmas is so huge, and yet without Jesus death and resurrection, his birth wouldn't have been remarkable. I'd love Easter to be as big as Christmas.
My mother did Easter baskets for us into adulthood! We colored hard boiled eggs when little. Often Easter was a big trip to the grandparents for a spring vacation. We definitely have photos in our Sunday best from many Easters. No Easter bunny photos, thank goodness!
What a great video, it’s true we always put extra care in are Sunday best clothes, Mom Grandma and even me got a flower to pin on us. The Dinner was delicious, and if we had nice weather the ladies after the dishes were done took a walk with the kids. It’s sad even on Easter many people don’t get dressed up, I was born 1988, but not just at Easter but every Sunday I put on a nice pair of slacks and top. My daughter too, when we go to Church, after all your entertaining God’s House, not going to a picnic. Thanks for the Video, as always my Mom enjoyed it as well. 👍❤️
This brings back fond memories of the old days. The good people who have passed through my life. Remembering the old ones.I think it’s getting dusty in here now my eyes are watering Vaya con Dios to all. Thanks from j.St. Paul Minnesota.
I remember the last Easter basket my parents made for me I was a freshman in college. They had gotten a gold cross to put in it and I still wear it 46 years later.....
How nice was this vid!!! TY. I am 64 now but remember fondly Easters in Chicago as a child. My late Mom's parents were both born in Poland and came to Chicago as children in the early 1900s. NO Easter was complete without the Easter pound cake baked in a lamb shaped mold and covered in white frosting and coconut (raisin eyes and red hot candy nose required LOL). Also a good Polish Krakus ham. Dressing in a little suit and going to Mass. Oh the memories. TY again. :)
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Hot cross buns, easter bread and easter cheese, stolen, egg knock w dad, hunting for eggs in the morning, church of course, same outfit as my sister, my brother wearing some nasty plaid blazer with mismatched pants.. We always colored eggs good friday after going to church service and stations of the cross. I remember the coloring tablets that you put in w/the vinegar. There was a special egg holder tool you could use to make one half one color then turn over and dip in another color, thought it was the coolest thing ever. I also recall a pen of some sort where you could write on the egg and the color wouldn't stick to it. Hope kids now are enjoying traditions as well. Pretty good stuff. Thanks for the memory jog... Happy Easter all.
Now completely off-limits because of choking hazards, the wonderful picture eggs. Made of molded sugar, the two hollow halves contained a little landscape, which one could see through the end which had a plastic window. The two sides of the hollow egg were fasting together with frosting, and the whole thing was heavily decorated with frosting. The big question was whether to save it, or eat it. Eventually it got eaten!
I’ve been on the lookout for these picture eggs from my childhood. Used to get them at the candy shop in Williamsburg. I miss these. I saved mine for as long as possible as a decoration in my room. Too pretty to eat 💕
As a child of the 70’s my Mom would alway buy my sister and I new shoes and dresses and my Grandmom always had a egg hunt and then we would have a really tasty hugedinner! So many great memories 🐣🐰💜💜💜
I try to make roasted lamb with mint sauce, deviled eggs, and asparagus salad with a special vinaigrette my mother always makes. I miss having Easter dinner with my family as we live in different cities (of course, we still do Thanksgiving and Christmas together).
We always wore our new outfits to church. That was the 1 thing you forgot to mention, the reason we celebrate Easter. Thank you again for the fond look back and keep them coming please
back when I was growing up I remember the dinners. I remember also on TV there were several of epic religious movies broadcast: "Ben Hur", "The Robe", "The Greatest Story Ever Told."
Reading the Passion at church on Good Friday, new outfit for Easter, and sometimes having my birthday on the very same day. Once I was the Easter Bunny at the McDonald's where I worked. It was fun how some kids would come right up to hug you, and dismaying how many of them screamed and ran!
We didn't have elaborate Easters when I was a kid. Our be event was coloring Easter eggs. The kits came with a wax crayon that you would use to draw on the eggs. We'd usually put our names on an egg, or draw some simple drawing. For a couple years, when I was very young, I remember getting a straw cowboy hat that served as an Easter basket. In first grade, our school had some special event for Easter, and my mother volunteered me to dress in a rabbit costume. The only thing I remember about it was one of the girls in my class and me hopping down the aisle carrying Easter baskets. Not sure what we did when we got to the end of the aisle. I just remember the hopping part. My introduction to the preforming arts. Easter was kind of a combination of Christmas and Halloween in that it involved toys and candy. As Memorial day was the unofficial start of summer, and Labor day the unofficial beginning of autumn, Easter was the unofficial beginning of spring.
We used to visit our extended family in north east Pennsylvania for Easter. It would all start on Good Friday and end Easter Monday morning. Food, family, good times. I remember it from the mid sixties to the mid nineties. After that we all got older and most of us all moved around the country.
We had our own strange traditions like having the one oddball Easter egg that was soaked in every color the PAAS kits offered to typically make a muddy gray egg! Haha! We as kids would sometimes have our own indoor egg hunt with the candies in our baskets! After the outdoor egg hunt it was standard to thump the hardboiled eggs on each other's heads to open them! Later on we often had a BBQ and my mom would use the surplus hard boiled eggs in a potato or macaroni salad! We just had to overlook that some of the eggs in these salads were tinted with dye colors!
The Memories I Had Growing UP In The 50’s And 60’s Were Wonderful. In Our Italian Neighborhood We Had A Ice Cream And Candy Store. The Name Was Bartells. Everything Was Hand Made By The Owner. Easter Tradition Included Chocolate Bunnies That We’re Purchased And Picked Up After Sunday Mass. Mr. Bartell Also Made The Sugar Eggs That You Looked In To View An Easter Scene. Every One In The Family Would Gather At Our Grandparents. The Dinner Would Start With Antipasto, Homemade Pasta, Ham, Turkey, And Roast Beef. The Deserts Pastry And So Many Other Wonderful Deserts.♥️🐇🐰
All I remember is getting up and getting ready for Easter Sunday and someone taking our picture dressed up for Easter and going to church and having an Easter egg hunt there. And that's all I can remember. I'm getting to old for trying to remember (56). Really enjoyed your video.
The town Easter Egg Hunt! Special plastic egg, if found could hold the certificate for the grand prize, a brand-new bike! I wish I could have been that lucky!
I remember every Easter Sunday when, I was younger getting a new outfit and the Mary Jane shoes for Easter and, I liked it when, our parents made the Easter Baskets cause, when, they done that, this insured we got a lot of our favorite candies. Don’t forget the Easter Ham with the pineapple rings and maraschino cherries put in the middle of the rings, Oh, that was one of my favorite things. Then, my grandma had made us a bunny cake, the bunny was made of coconut with black jelly bean eyes eyes as well as a black jelly bean nose and black thin stringed licorice whiskers. The next day after Easter for lunch we would take those colored Easter Eggs and make a sandwich out of them, you had it on toast with Mayo, Swiss cheese, sliced onion,and, you sliced the hard boiled egg and, salted and peppered it. Last but, not least let’s not forget all these colored tummied baby chicks, that, I believed my parents got at the Hatchery and, we would get them before Easter, we got gobs of them. Then, before our parents got them home half of them were dead. Then, after we held one it wouldn’t be long after that, they would die. Then, by Easter morning they all were dead. Keep in mind we lived in a subdivision on a dead end street, it was like what would kids living in a subdivision do with all these baby chicks if they had stayed alive to begin with. Lol Not saying it was sad, because, they’d get us all these chickens and, the dye would cause, them to die and, I busted out crying a couple times but, then, today you look back on it realistically and, it makes me bust out laughing because, some of the ones that stayed alive made the house stink along with the others that were dropping like flies, which sometimes before you could get them bagged up and taken out the trash they would create flies and then, you had a mess of flies to contend with. Sometimes the situation of it all became, a little bit silly. It was like what were these people thinking back then. Lol
We dyed eggs with Paas egg dye kits on Saturday. Church on Thursday night and Friday afternoon (we're Catholic). For several years, my sister and I were dressed alike for church on Sunday morning. Pictures with the bunny, yes. Dinner with my mom's family, now taken over by my cousin - who started an egg hunt tradition this year for her kids and their younger cousins. Mom makes homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast, ham for dinner, usually strawberry shortcake for dessert.
My dad would hide the foil wrapped chocolate eggs and every once in awhile we’d find one months later! One time we had a parakeet that we’d let fly around out of his cage. He found one of these eggs on a large windowsill and began pecking on it. Our cocker spaniel at that time crept up behind him, and just at that moment our parakeet tapped him on the nose with his beak and flew away.
As a kid cutting thru the park with my mom & bro I found some leftover from the Egg hunt. Of course she thought it was garbage. Plastic egg with a $5 in it. 😂
We used to drive to Kentucky every year to visit with relatives and to see my great grandmother who was in her 90’s. Everyone with encourages young kids to go talk to her but we were afraid because they were talking about how she might die any minute now and will never see her again. So in our young minds we thought she was gonna die right then in there right in front of us and that scared the hell out of us little kids! Lol. I used to have dreams about that
I have few memories of Easter/Resurrection Sunday because my parents were non-observant. My family lived in different states and in the old country (Brazil) so we didn't celebrate with them. I always look forward to my Brazilian Easter egg. I participated in an egg hunt in elementary school and loved it.
Every year for the first 12 years of my life I got a stuffed rabbit on Easter. One year I got a real rabbit on impulse. Much as I loved him I don't recommend getting one that way
HAPPY EASTER dear Christians... Jesus Christ is risen. We celebrate this wonderful event and hope as Christ was raised from the dead so also we too will rise again and share in the glory of Jesus Christ.
LOVE this channel! One year we got live baby ducklings...my mom accidentally stepped on one and MURDERED it. That was my worse Easter memory. Of course poor mama cried and cried and didn't tell our little brother who was three years old - thankfully he was spared.
I could always look forward to a WWF Hasbro wrestling figure in my Easter basket and one of those god-awful fucking Cadbury Cream Egg which I never want to see again
The day is called Firstfruits in the Old Testament and Resurrection Day in the New Testament. And it's celebrated with bread, not eggs, bunnies or candy. Revelation 22:18-19, we cannot add to the Bible or subtract from it. Calling God's Feasts Pagans names is how falsehood is spread to the whole world. Revelation 13:8, this is how the whole world worship the beast, by tolerating falsehood such as Easter bunnies and colored eggs. Let's recollect on the Bible truths, too. GodBlessU.
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You didn't even mention the MOST IMPORTANT Easter tradition is to celebrate the resurrection of the LORD Jesus Christ! Everything else you did mention is essentially meaningless.
I remember many of the things mentioned. Of course while I love and enjoy the Easter Bunny Tradition, the week before Easter was Holy Week and we had special Church services. We remembered Jesus's Last Supper on Holy Thursday and His Death on the Cross on Good Friday. On Saturday, we had a big Catholic Mass which lasted at least 2 hours and sometimes there was a party after. We had fun but we also were taught that Easter was about Jesus's rising from the dead.
What a shame but true. All I see is ads for candy and egg hunts, but no mention of what Easter is truly about. We are so far removed from what matters and what should be that it makes me want to cry.
I felt like we spent the entire week at church (Catholic), yes the insense smell, I actually liked it. Our church had "live" Stations of the Cross, scared the hec out of me when they would darken the lights and you would hear the hammer (Jesus getting nailed to the cross). My Dad was selected one year to get his feet washed on Holy Thursday. We thought that was such a big deal. Happy Easter.
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My childhood memories include the big chocolate bunny and Cadbury eggs which I still love, and, since I attended Catholic school, the smell of the incense used during the Stations of the Cross during Mass on Good Friday. Then there was the time off from school. They call it Spring break now but it will always be Easter break for me. Anyway, the years went by and the chocolate bunnies disappeared along with all the other traditions as I got busy focusing on making a living. Now, Easter once again holds great significance for me as the day to remember the sacrifice Jesus made on the Cross for the forgiveness of sin. I realize not everyone feels that way, but that's my take on it. I have come full circle and a day that became just another Sunday over time has returned to being one that is very special for me. Happy Easter to all and God Bless.
How do eggs and bunnies have anything to do with Christ, they don't, because easter is a pagan celebration of fertility, and the worship of the goddess Estar. The true Christain holiday is called Passover.
@@jmorgan5252 Yes just like everything Cadbury eggs my favorite to this day I'm a baby boomer 😉 Always dressed up with our little hats as kids Mom always had a Corsage my Dad bought her Those days easter family meal Easter egg hunts sad running for our Easter 🐇 baskets all done by Mon Dad green grass everywhere ! not these Aweful store bought celaphane wrapped cathy Nashville tn
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Aww - well not really the true Christian meaning of Easter obviously but as a child of the 70’s I definitely have fond memories of the neighborhood Easter egg hunt and my PINK patent leather Mary Jane shoes ☺️. The way community activities have died out is quite sad actually.
That's okay traditionally easter was pagan, just the celebration of the change of seasons and rebirth, new life. It is sad community activities have died out.
Dyeing Easter Eggs with my brothers A brand new pair of black pantent leather Mary Janes. And a brand new pair of white gloves. A delicious Easter Ham. 💐🐇🐥🥚🦋
Thank you Recollection Road, Easter was always a special day, getting dressed in our lacy dresses, white or black patten shoes, white leotards and matching bonnets. I have so many pictures of me and my older sisters all together in each one. Precious days gone by but will always be in my heart , egg hunting, baskets full of candy and plastic green grass,and as always Church services and ham dinner with all the traditional sides, a nice reminder of spring in the air and mom did her best to try to keep us from getting our dresses dirty, unfortunately I received alot of hand me downs from older sisters, we sure got our monies worth back in the good old days. Where did the time go, like just yesterday 😊😊😥😥 times sure have changed drastically over the years
Me my sisters and brother, there were six of us, dressed to the nines with Easter bonnets and patent leather shoes for Easter Mass. Very important we were dressed properly. Great memories!
Yep! There were seven of kids in my family and my aunt and uncle had nine and of course all the rest, but we were especially close. My aunt died when I was 14, it was the very first time I knew anyone who died. I remember my little cousin (he was four) asked me who was going to walk him to school (preschool)... luckily he had all of us and grew up to be very kind and now works with disabled children. Okay, I'm sorry, didn't mean to go off like that, but these videos does it to me every time!
When we were little , egg hunting was a tradition in our family.plus as we got older. Our parents got plastic eggs an put money an candy in them to hunt for
We went to a Byzantine Catholic church, and the tradition was to bring your Easter basket to church for it to be blessed. The typical foods in the wicker basket were Paska (sweet yeast bread), Hrudka, ham, sausages, hard boiled decorated eggs, Chrin (horseradish mixed with grated beets). Each item was a symbol of the resurrection, it was the best!
We still have the blessing of the Easter baskets on Holy Saturday morning in most Roman Catholic churches. Typical items are: eggs, bread, flour, salt, wine, oil, meats and an image of a lamb.
Thank you 🐰 One my favorite memories was Mom bought me new pair of Red Patent Shoes wanted si much I was 4 go with my red white flower dress & Hat of course We are my Aunts had a small creek , I fell into 🙂 My older cousin picked me up ran house I cried cried , Mom my aunt dried my new shoes washed my dress we made it to church ,
Many of these Easter traditions are fading away fast -at least in my area. You rarely see Easter Baskets or the plethora of egg coloring kits. Kids don't really care about dying/decorating eggs or engaging in egg hunts. "Peeps" will probably always by around...lol. Stores just throw a bunch of Eater related candy on the shelf, a selection of cards, and call it good🙄 My mother worked at a local Halmark/Variety store back in the 70s. I was just a kid, but I remember her putting together custom Easter Baskets for the public. It was a local store tradition, and the back room was well stocked with Easter supplies/goodies. Up through the 80s, companies marketed fancy egg decorating kits. Easter Dinners and Church started to fade by the 90s -probably due to the older generations passing on.
Being a kid in the 60s Easter was the door opening to the new beginning of Spring. The next big thing would be the lazy days summer vacation from school.
I enjoy these videos so much and love reading all the comments of everyone's memories. Some are nostalgic, some are funny and some are just bittersweet. Happy Easter!
Another great look at the past with so many memories as only Recollection Road can tell it! There's nothing that needs changing on this channel. Thanks so much!
My first memories of Easter are from the 70s. The large candy egg, either peanut butter, coconut, or a fruit nut type. There were also chocolate crosses. The plastic eggs were used to decorate both inside and outside, and plastic inflatable rabbits were used as decorations. My mom would make pickled eggs a week in advance to have with the Easter meal. I still have many of the old decorations and they are on display in the house now. I also still have my Easter baskets from childhood.
Because Easter is a pagan celebration of fertility, and the worship of the goddess Estar. Rabbits, and eggs were symbols of fertility. The true Christian celebration is called Passover.
@@lisapolanski9379, Don't know were you get your information, but it is not in the Scripture. You really need to do a lot more research, before you open your mouth.
Much like Christmas, the true meaning of Easter/Resurrection Sunday has mostly been lost. It's now very commercialized and, I'll admit, I've gotten swept up in it at times. Now that I'm getting older, I do my best to observe the true meaning of holidays.
During my days as a child, me and my family would go to Grandma's house and go egg hunting, but those days are gone. Nowadays, I make mosaics and put them on for sale on Etsy.
I remember we wore bowties as little kids in the early 60s. I hated bowties. By the mid 60s I was wearing the long ties. I remember we got new Buster Brown dress shoes around easter. Not that the old shoes were worn out but they were out grown.
Ohio Art is less than 80 miles from where I grew up and less than 100 miles from where I live now. It's still in business in Bryan, Ohio. I don't know if they still make the metal pails and watering cans anymore though.
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