Do you have plans for Easter?
By NJ Chicaa
@NJChicaa (126792)
United States
March 29, 2026 7:27pm CST
If you are Christian then today is Palm Sunday and next Sunday is Easter. My family isn't particularly religious--never has been. Sure we celebrate Christmas and Easter but they are more like secular holidays along the lines of Thanksgiving for us.
My mother told me today that they aren't doing an Easter dinner this year. My niece has a field hockey tournament in Delaware over the weekend and there just won't be enough time for them to whip together a full meal. I told them that they could always order one of those pre-made dinners or we could just go out. Nope.
So we won't all be getting together. It is fine. The kids will enjoy their Easter baskets from my sister/BIL, and from my mother and her best friend. 3 Easter baskets for each of them! Spoiled kids!
Do you have Easter plans?
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@Ineeddentures (25142)
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18h
No Easter plans here.
We might have a chocolate egg
But that's about it
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@DaddyEvil (170784)
• United States
18h
No, we don't. We barely do anything for Thanksgiving and Christmas and I just make a bigger than normal meal for those holidays. Easter is just another day for us.
I hope you made something special for yourself and maybe your ex for Easter dinner. I'm sure he'd enjoy that.
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@BACONSTRIPSXXX (17300)
• Torrington, Connecticut
7h
Going to visit my high school best friend with my family since our kids are around the same age
@LindaOHio (217709)
• United States
10h
No plans. If cousin #2 was still here she might have come over and made dinner.
@snowy22315 (205332)
• United States
18h
That is too bad, since you didn't see them for Christmas. I used to get 3 Easter baskets as a kid..one from my mom and dad and one each from the grandparents. As we got a bit older though my one grandma would give us those chocolate covered large eggs and my other grandmother got us presents.
@FourWalls (84455)
• United States
14h
No plans. But then I never have any plans for much of anything.
@sallypup (68532)
• Centralia, Washington
17h
It will be odd Easter for us. We are going to drive to our friends for a writer's meeting. They said they don't do anything for Easter so I will bring some form of a snack and she says it is easy to make muffins. Mostly just sharing time in a rural setting and an old trailer. Then maybe home to our own treats. AND will not forget to read The Piper from the Gates of Dawn chapter- the Wind in the Willows poignant pagan chapter.
@JudyEv (375917)
• Rockingham, Australia
15h
We'll be in a small town where they crank up an old WWII searchlight. There was a huge army camp there during the war. It's now a museum.
@MarieCoyle (56578)
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17h
We had originally planned to be with my daughter and son in law for Easter. But his Dad took a bad turn and they are heading up to Chicago to see about him, so nothing is for sure now. If we are home, just me and the son, we will be OK. We won't have anything fancy or special but I will cook and try to make it nice for my son. I am sorry you are not going to get together this year.
When I was little, one of my grandmothers made my sister and I both Easter dresses and cookies like bunnies and chicks. The other grandmother always bought us a book and some candy. Then we hunted eggs at one of their houses. I honestly don't remember baskets of candy.
