It's Easter!

[aderam]

Happy Easter to all those who celebrate and happy Easter chocolate to everyone else! (You know I actually didn't know until two years ago that there was such a thing as "Easter Dinner" where you went and spent time with family and had a feast, usually with ham. No one has ever accused me of being a good Christian. Of course being a Pagan might have something to do with that...)

Normally Easter means nothing more than some chocolate and other candy-goodness in association with two days off of school. Although lately it's been the start of Spring exams (oh gods, my brain has been taken over by Latin. Just as I was typing that I thought to myself "hunh, that's an x so it counts as two consonnents and that means that the e is long" this of course only applies when one is scanning Latin poetry to find the metre. I am such a nerd). But this year we found out that all the families on our street do an Easter-Egg hunt every year. We just got in from going out and searching to find all the eggs that were hidden in Tall places that the little kids couldn't reach, and it was GREAT. I love my neighbourhood. Our awesome neighbours who organized it and got everyone to donate candy also gave us the unwrapped candy that they got because they didn't want to put them in the eggs in case they got wet, "for while you're studying for exams," she said.

What a great idea!

Also we got a big snowfall last night so everything is white even though it isn't cold and it makes finding colourful plastic eggs just that much easier.

Also Also I got some virtual candy on my LJ. Thanks hobbitbabe! It's always nice to get candy from your (other)mother. Hope you're having a good holiday!

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Alternatively, if you're going to pick the best bits from Christian seasonal traditions, some people do lamb for Easter dinner. We didn't do the Easter-dinner thing when I was a kid either, but lamb and chocolate don't need much excuse.

[aderam.livejournal.com]

I think that I would haveto agree with that statement. Mmmmm Lamb. I think that I have to keep taking close looks at the meat section in our local Sobey's. Or perhaps take a stroll down to the Superstore because I think that they have a better selection...

Although I did make salsa chicken thighs last night, and prooved that a half batch is neither hard to make nor able to sustain leftovers.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Oh, good idea. I never thought of making a half batch of that chicken.

[jetfx.livejournal.com]

We ate lamb and ham, but the dog was sneaky and ate half my chocolates when I left it on the coffee table.

[tinyfishie.livejournal.com]

The ham part actually comes from flipping off the Jews! True story. The tradition of eating lamb around this time of year comes form the Paschal sacrifice at Passover (lamb was traditionally eaten at the Seder, but we don't sacrifice animals to our God anymore so now we just have a shankbone on the Seder plate due to the shortage of ritually killed lambs) and Christians retained it. Before Jews stopped sacrificing lambs but after Christianity was getting pretty well-established, there was a goyishe king (whose name I would have to look up) who started the custom of eating ham in order to differentiate his followers from the Jews (who obviously could not eat pork products). The tradition is retained to this day.

Of course, my dad likes to make ham for Easter, which I always ate with great relish, but then no one's ever accused me of being a good Jew.

P.S. My aunt came by today with Easter baskets for Emma and me and a whole bunch of goodies, including lunch, which she cooked for us because "of course you're too busy to cook with exams coming up" and some baked goods that we get to dive into tomorrow night when Passover's over. Woo! Easter rocks!