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“The great gift of Easter is hope.”

Today is perfectly lovely and warm in the sun, deck weather. My Easter basket, a beach pail, was on the walkway when I opened the front door. I went down to my friends’ house later than usual and decorated their tree, an annual event, and left their baskets on the deck rail. Their dog, Piper, got Easter biscuits and a new collar. Henry got Easter biscuits and a new stuffed squeaky toy. He has already eaten the decorated yellow Easter egg and some small pink ones. Henry always licks the frosting first.

Everything is now quiet. There was hammering earlier but not any more. I wondered why today, on Easter, he needed to work on his deck.

When I was a kid, nobody played outside on Easter. It was family dinner day, but after dinner, in the late afternoon, we usually went to East Boston to see my grandparents and a cast of thousands: my aunts and uncles and all my cousins. The house was always a riot of noise except in the kitchen. My grandmother, my mother, and the aunts laid claim to the kitchen. That was their domain. They sat at the table talking and catching up. They shooed us out of the room.

My sister has snow. My niece does too. She hid eggs before the snow for her three boys to find but they are now really well hidden, under the snow. This could work out though. They might look for hours especially if a big prize was offered.

I’m going to put dinner in the oven then I’ll get dressed. I think I’ll wear my flowered fascinator. I wear it to dinner every Easter Sunday. It always gets smiles. Today especially, I should observe all the traditions.

Happy Easter! Happy Passover!

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10 Comments on ““The great gift of Easter is hope.””

  1. Birgit's avatar Birgit Says:

    April 12, 2020 at 4:57 pm

    Happy Easter / Passover / Egg-Day / sunny Sunday!
    Too bad you can’t have your traditional Easter meal at the sea restaurant with your friends and the flowered fascinator. Your fascinator is worth all smiles, why don’t you post a photo so we can appreciate it online 🙂
    Have a great day and a wonderful Easter dinner!

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      April 12, 2020 at 7:13 pm

      Birgit,
      I did miss my dinner at The Ocean House. We always timed it so we could watch the sun set. I will hunt down a picture. There must be one.

      I didn’t get dressed today, and I did have a good day. The Easter Bunny came and dinner was good. It was quiet.

      I hope yours was a wonderful Easter.

  2. Rowen's avatar Rowen Says:

    April 12, 2020 at 5:15 pm

    An Irving Berlin twofer today!

  3. Sheila's avatar Sheila Says:

    April 12, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    A cast of thousands – hahahaha – and true!

  4. Bob's avatar Bob Says:

    April 12, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    Hi Kat,

    Today is both my daughter’s and my birthday. To get out of the house we drove to the town of West Texas, about 80 miles south, which is an old Czech community. We wanted to buy Kolaches and bring them home. There are several bakeries along I-35 and we checked them all out. We ate sausage, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese ones for lunch and brought home a dozen fruit stuffed ones for later. I think it’s later. 🙂

    No snow here just sunshine and highs in the low 80s.


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