From Cindy's Heart

READY FOR A TREAT??? EASTER TRADITIONS!

Talk about a treat! The following ideas come from entries to my blog
(http://www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/CindyRushton) this week. You are going to LOVE them! Talk about ideas that will inspire you to make a sweet memory this weekend! These are the best! So...slow down this weekend and make a memory. These will be the days that your children will remember when they look back on their childhood!


==> Favorite Easter Memory--by the Rabybunch...

It was on an Easter Sunday morning when I received Christ as my Lord and Savior at age 5 in 1970! I will never forget that day! Easter has always been very special to my family. When I was growing up, each year my Mother took my Sister and me shopping for a new Easter dress, shoes, maybe a hat and a purse; it was a time to get very dressed up for church, since it was a celebration of Christ's death and resurrection. No other Sunday was this special. I carry this "tradition" on with my own children!

==> Easter Memories--by Annette in Maine

I havee always enjoyed Sunrise service for Easter. Getting up is not fun-
but the adventure of being together early in the moring and then having
breakast at the church is a special treat. Growing up in Maine also adds
an extra dimension to new Easter clothes- what sweater to wear to with
your new dress and are snow boots part of the outfit? Cindy thanks so much for your ministry- I've been struggling with how I approach homeschooling and I finally feel that there is hope! Have a great Easter, Annette in Maine

(From Cindy...Annette, thanks! This is SO sweet! I have my NEW outfit ready for Sunday. That has also been a BIG tradition for my family from the time I was a little girl! We always counted days until we could wear our new SPRING goodies! Usually Mama made our dresses and made my dress to match sister. She always got us a pretty spring hat or bonnet. Such sweet memories! Sunday is the day for white here! Humm...I may need to get a hat this year!)

==> Favorite Resurrection Day Tradition and Memory--by Gmisch

I grew up with my mom making a lamb cake every year, and we memorized the verse “And John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world!”

After I got married, I HAD to find a lamb cake pan and keep up the tradition! Now that my folks and I go to the same church (they moved back home) my mom and I take turns making it. It has become a tradition in our church, to the point that the other kids in the church have to know if the lamb cake is coming! We use blue m&m’s for the eyes, brown ones for the mouth, red for the nose, and dye coconut green to go around the base of the lamb for grass!

==> Easter Traditions--REInvestor...

We color eggs the week of Easter and then pull out the Ressurection Eggs. We got them from CBD and there are 12 eggs which each have a item related to the story of Christ's death and resurrections. We also watch the Jesus video (the only time I let the kids do this. I don't want them to be so used to the seeing the story that it loses its impact). Some years we also celebrate Passover, which we will do this year as it falls on Thurs with the first even on Wed.

==> Our Easter Traditions--HeatherD76...

Every year we use to get up before dawn for an outdoor sunrise service
and then everyone headed over to my Nana's house for dinner and a huge egg hunt. Now that my Nana has past on, we gather at my home for dinner and have added games as well as the annual egg hunt.

==> First Off--by Jaybird...

...that casket joke is the best thing I've heard in days!! And Easter
memories? My dad would be the candy hider and there were always a few peanut eggs that we wouldn't find until June!!! Now that I am the momma, though....I love teaching my kiddos about the real meaning of Easter. But, I do love the thought of being the one to make Easter brunch and pick out new Easter clothes, too!

(From me...ha! I thought that was a funny too! For those of you who are
wondering, "WHAT JOKE?" Check out my blog. I try to share funnies as I find those that are just too tempting! This was a GREAT joke! OH! And...don't you love those "hidden goodies" that surface MONTHS later? ha! Easter just would not be the same without those stories! )

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AREN'T THESE GREAT?

Thanks for posting your ideas! You guys are THE BEST! Each of you have made this issue super special! Soooo, as a treat for you, please take a look at my Ebook list (see it here: http://www.CindyRushton.com/Ebookinfo.html) and choose which
Ebook you would like the most. Email me (Cindy@CindyRushton.com) with your title and I will send a link as a special THANKS for your Easter ideas!