What....?

Jill

Jill

Sugar Cookie : GingerScraps Praise Team
...are you doing for Easter? Are you going away? Staying home? Easter Egg hunts? Family gatherings? Does Easter mean public holiday in your country?

We will have our local families around on Easter Sunday. There will be an Easter Egg hunt (even though the grandchildren still living in our area are now 19, 16, 16 :) Even the ones in their 20's still expect the hunt if they are back home for Easter..Isn't that so heartwarming??

In our state, the 4 days of Easter are public holidays (not that it means much these days as retail and hospitality seem to operate almost every day of the year) Large stores will be closed on Good Friday but some small ones may open. If you work on public holidays, the rate of pay here is much higher so people often volunteer to work on those days. Easter falls in the middle of the school vacation too, so it is very busy on the roads.
 
We do a family Easter Egg Hunt around Mother's day and we have changed the name to the Mother's Day Hunt. This year is really different as grandma is going with me and my daughter to Hong Kong on Mother's Day. So we will push the easter egg hunt to July when our whole family goes camping together. Nothing like stretching those holidays out!
 
Saturday there is an Egg Hunt at church that I will be helping out with. Then I will be attending service Saturday night. My church has extra services for holidays because more people attend. Then I will be volunteering at church all Sunday morning. Then coming home to chill out. Not doing anything with family really. My kiddos are too big for egg hunts and the Easter Bunny :(.
 
We're going out of town on Friday then we'll come back Saturday so we could attend the sunrise service in our church. We don't really do egg hunt but our church decided to do it this year so we could invite the kids and their families around the village. My daughter's really excited about it :)
 
Only Good Friday is a statutory holiday here, but my workplace gives us both Friday and Easter Monday off.

We aren't doing anything special for Easter, just staying home. We will go to Mass on Easter Sunday, and friends might have us over for dinner, but otherwise, we'll just be hanging out with the cats.

I have a 6 hour exam to write in May, to maintain my registration as a dietitian, so I'll be spending some of the long weekend studying for it. It's been quite a while since my university studies in some of the topics on the exam, so I need to refresh my knowledge. There are also a lot of very clinical topics that I just simply haven't ever run across in my working life, being a community dietitian and having never worked in a hospital setting, so I need to commit all of that information to memory as well.
 
We don't do a thing for Easter. I'm not even big on candy. lol Growing up, we always went out for a nice dinner and spent time together afterwards. It was the one holiday we didn't make a big meal at home.
 
The whole family is off this year for Good Friday-Easter (sometimes hubby has to work on Easter)
We are saving up our vacation time for Graduation events at the end of the school year and our Disney trip in June.

So for Easter it will be a Staycation :)
Local theme parks, hiking, cleaning the house--fun! hahaha
 
We're just going to my parents' up the street for dinner with them and my sisters. After that it's a day off so we might go see a movie that afternoon. I have Sunday/Monday off every week so no extra days off for me and it will be pretty much a normal week in our house.
 
It is Good Friday here in Aus right now. A quiet home day ahead of me Yay!! Hubby is a dedicated church person so he will be at the church a lot of the day. We will have Hot Cross Buns for breakfast in a little while (when I catch up on my GS socialising:D) Happy Easter everyone!!
 
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