Alleluia! He Has Risen and Given Hope to the World!

Today is Easter Sunday!

It's a day of celebration and, hopefully, bright sunshine. For Christians, it's a remembrance of Jesus Christ's dying a brutal death on a cross, rising from the dead on this morning, and, thereby bringing hope to the world. It's a glorious holiday filled with love and unparalleled joy.

All through childhood, this day was cause for great celebration and happiness. Every Easter as a child, my mother would buy all of us new outfits, from bonnets down to patten leather shoes with lacy socks! For sure, there wasn't much money but my Mother always found a way to buy the Easter finery.


The day also meant delicious food! We always had ham, pierogi (Polish turnovers with yummy fillings), huge babka (Polish sweet breads filled with yellow currants and spread with butter), big bowls of steaming potatoes, veggies, and on and on. Nobody talked about diets or calories in those days. We just ate and enjoyed. ("Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end...")

My childless aunts brought over big Easter baskets wrapped in lavender, pink, blue, and yellow transparent wrap with big bows. Inside we'd squeal as we opened chocolate bunnies, small toys, and all kinds of treasures hidden inside green paper "grass."

When my own children were small, I loved making big Easter baskets for them and would leave them outside their rooms on Easter morning.

"Look what the Easter bunny brought!" I'd cry out as the little sleepyheads opened their eyes to the light of day.




So much has changed as the years tick by. My parents and aunts are now on the other side of life. My own "babies" are all grown up and my son lives 3,000 miles away. My daughter will spend Easter with her husband's family this year but, joy of joys, will join us later in the afternoon for dessert!

Today, I wish each of you a day filled with friends,family, good food (but not too much), joy, laughter, love, peace, and tons of chocolate! Love to all! Susan