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What is on your calendar and to-do list?
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Very funny, Jodie  .
Come on, now...I need you all to brainstorm with me so I don't miss anything! With dh out of town (unplanned) this week and being behind on spring cleaning ("shocker" my 12yo would say), I'm tempted to worry  .
My baskets are finished, except for the purchase of a few favorite candy items that I need to track down: sweet tart jelly beans, Junior mints, ?
Food Shopping List:
Holy Thursday meal
Hot Cross Buns and Stone Soup for Good Friday
Lacy's Resurrection Rolls Saturday
Menu items to bring to Sunday celebration
Prep for Divine Mercy Sunday (Novena starts Good Friday)
That's off the top of my head...
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Finding the baskets
Grocery list
Shopping for said items
Cleaning
Music practice (lots of that!)
Remembering to bring the fruit salad to our choir brunch
Remembering to ask our invitees if they are coming for Easter dinner (don't ask)
Small Easter gifts for dc
So far the ONLY thing I've done is buy chocolate.
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ok.. I don't have baskets.. I'll probably get plain colors of gift bags.. I was just thinking about printing off easter eggs to color so that I can paste an egg colored by the child to their bag since I have to double up on colors.
I found some chocolate bars form Russel Stover that have pretty religious easter designs on the packaging. only $1 each! and you get more chocolate for the money than you do with the shaped chocolates.
I also got the egg shaped gum balls that come in an egg carton (mini.. it's only about 2 inches long) the kids love getting gum and these are CUTE.
I think I have some dvds.
I don't know what else I need to get exactly except for the bags.. maybe some green tissue paper.. I will NOT do easter grass in them.. that stuff drives me absolutely NUTS.. but I always have a floor creeper putting everything into his or her mouth so...
I'm thinking about getting new fold up camping chairs.. we need them and it'll be good to combine the need with a gift giving occation.. they'll just be given to the family as a whole not to individuals.
Easter dinner.. ham, mashed potatoes, asparagus (if I can afford it), homemade rolls or bread (I like a braided loaf I've done with white, wheat and rye breads). jello, in a mold or layered or just jello.. a child usually gets to do this, deviled eggs of course.. I'll get a whole ham if I can get a good sale.. otherwise I have two half hams in my freezer already.
I like making some treats.. usually a cheesecake, kolacky, a pound cake.. I've moved some other treats that had been done at Christmas by one family or other that we just never get to.. and I want to try them for Easter and see if that'll work.
I don't know what to do about coloring eggs.. the kids LOVE doing it.. but we end up with SO VERY MANY hardboiled eggs.. I just don't know.. but to do that I need to get some of the coloring kits and the extra eggs.
and on top of all of that I really REALLY need to get the kids clothes changed out as much so that I can reduce the sheer amounts as anything.
and get seeds planted in the cold frame
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One thing that really helps me is that I save in my email drafts (for christmas and easter) menus of things that are more or less traditional, meals and treats.
That way when I go to plan the meal and treats and shopping. I can literally just pull up a list with most of the dishes already listed and I'm not having to remember things or get to the last minute and go.. oh no we're supposed to be having __________ with dinner and I completely forgot.
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Do you know we don't do Easter baskets here in Australia. Well maybe some do but not anyone I know. Most children I know get chocolate eggs or bunnies, but that's pretty much it.
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Ok, here's my Easter wish list. 
Soon:
Craft a resurrection set with my kids and put it on the mantel. (I'll be posting printables for this set on my blog in the next few days... hopefully  ).
A few more Lenten crafts.
Order some small Mary statues so we can make Mary "snow globes" for May. (I'll probably order some of the Divine Mercy Statues while I'm at it since that's coming up soon, too).
Mail Easter Eggs to my Godchildren with jellybeans and a jellybean prayer inside.
All other Easter crafts at our house are going to be made actually during the Easter season (meaning, not until after Easter Sunday.)
Holy Thursday:
Good Friday:
- Live Stations of the Cross at our church
- My own version of hot cross buns (some kind of easy dough that I can add raisins to and mix in my bread machine. By the way, does anyone else think hot cross buns are kinda yummy for Good Friday?
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- Live Stations of the Cross at our church
- For dinner, I want to make bread and braid it into a circle. Then we'll bake it, and after it's baked stick pretzel sticks all in it so it looks like a crown of thorns. I can't officially recommend this yet because I haven't tested it, but I'm planning on serving it with soup.
- Using our Stations of the Cross Eggs (my kids SERIOUSLY love these!)
- We'll also be doing another Good Friday activity that goes with my printable Resurrection set- again, yet to be published.
Holy Saturday:
- Dye Easter Eggs
- Do Easter baking (including Easter egg bread, a religious Easter cake of some kind, and also making Easter Story Cookies in the evening. (I love Easter story cookies!)
- Stuff and hide Easter baskets after kids are in bed. (hiding the Easter baskets is a tradition of my husband's family.
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Easter Sunday
- Downplay the Easter bunny as much as possible (I'd do away with him completely, but my husband wouldn't have it...)
- Bring out the Alleluia
- Find our Easter baskets
- Get our Easter Story cookies out of the oven.
- Make Resurretion Rolls for breakfast, along with bacon and eggs. (Resurrection rolls are seriously so fast and easy, they hardly take more time to make than from-the-can cinnamon rolls, so they really can be made Easter morning.)
- Mass (I'd love to go to the Vigil, but with kids ages 5, 3, and 11 months, you do the math.) and crazy amounts of pictures...
- Tell the resurrection story with our crafted resurrection set
- Begin our Easter Countdown Calendar.
- Ham dinner in the afternoon with religious place settings (religious table decoration inspiration from here and here.
- Light our Paschal Candle (which we made today
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- Multiple egg hunts and lots of candy-eating!
During Easter Season
- Learn about the Stations of Light
- May Crowning (at home and at preschool)
- Divine Mercy and JPII stuff
- Continuing with our Easter Calendars
- Cast your nets to the other side craft and snack.
- Possibly making this mantel decoration.
- Definitely leaving up our Resurrection set until Pentecost.
- Cool Ascension craft in my head- to be executed and I want to serve these heavenly jello desserts
- Some kind of 'legend of the dogwood' craft.
Thanks for posting this topic! It's so relaxing to see all my plans written out like this. I'm sure half of this stuff will fall through the cracks, but it's fun to dream, right?  I will say that it's sooooo relaxing to think about Easter lasting for 50 days because I don't have to jam everything in right now.
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Ok...I love your list and will prob. use some of your ideas but thanks for admitting that you may only accomplish 1/2 of it so I don't feel like a complete failure if I can't do it all! It actually inspires me instead of discouraging me.
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I love this one too esp. since TAX DAY is FRIDAY!!!! and I'm not even close to being done w/ that. May be I need to buy some chocolate on Thursday to gear up for finishing on time. Oh, wait, I think I gave up candy for Lent.
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Gosh...I WISH I could do away with the Easter baskets. A chocolate egg or bunny would/should be plenty sufficient.
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Kathryn wrote:
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Yay! So glad to hear that. If you could see the state of my messy house right now, you'd know better than to think I can "do it all".
Anywho, I'm already simplifying my plans. I'm thinking of doing a simpler Holy Thursday dinner rather than the full Christian Seder meal. Something more like this.
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Lacy wrote:
Kathryn wrote:
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Yay! So glad to hear that. If you could see the state of my messy house right now, you'd know better than to think I can "do it all".
Anywho, I'm already simplifying my plans. I'm thinking of doing a simpler Holy Thursday dinner rather than the full Christian Seder meal. Something more like this. |
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You are all ahead of me! I know I wrote down my plans of what I usually do so I don't have to reinvent the wheel for Holy Week, but I haven't found the list yet. 
Oh, my house! It's such a mess! These past two weeks were just crazy! My husband is actually helping me prepare for Holy Week by having some friends over on Saturday. I've got to clean!!!
I gave up on an "official" seder meal a few years ago. It was comments from my husband and other family members and discussions on this board that made me realize that I needed to make a distinction. A Seder meal is still a Jewish religious ceremony. I want to imitate Jesus, and walk in His steps without feeling like I'm following a religious ceremony. I also want to focus that Holy Thursday is a high feast day -- the priest wears white, we celebrate the institution of the Holy Eucharist and Holy Orders. So this is a fancy meal, a foreshadowing of Easter, but still a shadow hanging over it. We look backward (Old Testament) and forward (still have the Passion and Death before He rises). I went into long detail at Catholic Cuisine.
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Wow, what an amazing post!!! This is fabulous, Jenn! Just the kind of thing I've been looking for- thanks! 
I am seriously sitting at my computer laughing at the "memorable" meatloaf in the lamb mold!... and I'm thinking about buying a lamb mold.
I was just on the phone with my friend this morning, and she said the big Easter tradition in Steubenville, OH is to make popcorn lambs in your lamb cake mold. This sounds SO much easier than cake to me since I burn all baked goods and have no desire to ice a lamb shaped cake. Maybe I really will buy a lamb mold.
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We don't like lamb, so I make roast beef.
I'm glad you enjoyed the mold mention. When I used to write for Catholic Culture, I had included that information, and I was told to remove it because nobody else would appreciate that, it just seemed like a joke.
But my mother really did it!
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I don't think we even have time for anything as a family on Holy Thursday! DH doesn't get home until almost six and if we want to make the liturgy at 7 we have to leave at 630. How do you guys find the time to do this all?
Now, Good Friday is a national holiday in Canada, so we will have all day to do stuff then.
And yes, I always thought hot cross buns were a little... sweet and tasty... for Good Friday. But I make them anyway!
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You know an interesting thing I've found is that like Mary Poppins... "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down" or in this case.. something a little bit fun helps draw the children into the more serious liturgies and traditions.
For instance my kids LIKE going to Stations of the Cross. Of course our Church always has a soup and bread supper together afterward. And my children are extroverts so that opportunity to be with friends afterward made it easy to get them there.. and just by being there they've gained appreciation for the Stations of the Cross. And I don't have to fight with them about it because there's something they want to do.
I think the same thing about the Hot Cross Buns.. they're yummy but they sort of stand alone on Good Friday.. a bit of sweet along with all the sad and something you can look forward to while learning to appreciate the rest.. or even after you appreciate the rest.
And don't forget the treat (donuts usually) after Mass.. that gives all the little wiggly people a reason to fight toward good behavior during Mass
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My mother often thought that about the Hot Cross buns, so it was a revelation to me to see Joanna Bogle describe her recipe which had flour and water mix for the cross, but the buns were scored with a cross before the icing or flour dough was put on it.
That comment about the sweet is a good point, Jodie. It got me to thinking...the reason why we go through Good Friday without despair is that we have that sweetness of knowing our Lord will rise again. So perhaps those raisins or sugar icing is that "sweetness."
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In the years we don't have time, we'll do it Wednesday night. But usually dh will try to come home earlier, I'll have it all ready to go and we're all dressed before we eat, so can go to the Mass. We have to leave an hour before to get a seat.
I do try to read from Exodus and St. John's gospel. We try to squeeze in washing the feet before we go, too. We find that having those visuals fresh in their memory really helps in their participation, as this mass is very long.
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