Easter Memories

Easter was always one of those special times of year, when trees were starting to bud and flowers were turning their faces to the warmth of the sun.

As a child I remember that we always got a new dress, white lace trimmed bobby socks, white shoes, gloves, hat, and purse for Easter Sunday; we didn't get new clothes throughout the year as children do now (New clothes were special; School, Easter, and Christmas were the typical times of year).
Sometimes our Easter dresses were ones that mom had made, sometimes from the store. Shoes always seemed to come from the Buster Brown shoe store, I don't remember visiting any other shoe store growing up (but that may be a faulty memory).

On Easter Sunday, I remember dad checking our purses to see that we had our Quarter for Sunday School offering, a handkerchief and nothing else.
Of course being Easter, our Sunday School lessons were always at some age level of understanding for what the day stood for; Understanding that Christ had died for our sins, and was resurrected.

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After the Easter Service there was always an Easter Egg hunt for the Sunday School children. I still remember looking under the leaves of plants and in areas of tall grass, finding those colorful eggs, and collecting them in a small basket.

I remember coloring eggs as a child, the different colors you dipped the boiled eggs in; watching that white egg become a rainbow of color. I remember mom and dad always hid our Easter basket behind the Drapes in the living room. Colorful wooden baskets filled with green colored paper grass and lots of fun things. The chocolate was much better back then, and so were the jelly beans. Every year we also got these beautiful panoramic eggs made of sugar, with tiny little scenes inside. They still make them today;The picture below is of a modern one: By the
Confectioners Artists Guild of Orlando.

Then there was Easter Dinner; usually a ham, but sometimes a Pot Roast.

We don't have children; but to this day I always color some eggs and have a small basket filled with chocolate eggs.

I hope you all have a Blessed and Happy Easter!