Do you guys decorate around your house for Easter? My MIL and SIL both do...bunnies, chicks, colored eggs, all that stuff. So I guess they're really decorating for "spring", since there's nothing religous.

I've got like a bunny candy dish, and a couple of decorated egg candles (that they gave me one Easter), but I have no idea where they are...:dunno:

I don't decorate, was just wondering if anybody else does...

(well, I take that back....my decorating consists of putting Easter Hershey kisses and peanut butter cups out in a candy dish! :drool: )

No, I don't celebrate Easter, and there's no decorating to do for Passover...just a lot of cooking :wub:

Not this year. Normally I do. I have this candle holder thing that holds a small pillar and has 4 decorations (all seasonal) so I have 12 decorations, 4 for each season. At Easter I hang the bunnies and the Easter eggs on it with a dusy rosish pillar in the middle. I've got these big Easter Egg ceramic candles that are shaped like their cracked. These suckers are pretty heavy, too! I haven't lit the candles yet, but they're so pretty! I have an Easter bunny mug, somewhere....I have some other flowery candle holders and such that I like to put out. I've thought of getting some more at the grocery store. They have these pillar candle holders, shaped like leaves and spring colours. Matching candles, too!

Far as I can think of, that's about it....oh yeah, and I have a couple crystal candie dishes that look pretty with the colourful Easter eggs in them! Just for looks, tho...not fer eatin'. B)

Tell me more about what you do to celebrate Passover & what it means....I'm embarassingly clueless.... :doh:

This year I won't be doing much, just going to the community seder and eating matzah for a week afterward. The seder is the ritual celebrated either as a family or as a community; it commemorates the deliverance from Egypt, and also deliverance from bondage to sin. For a Messianic seder, Christ's death and resurrection are central (and even in a non-Messianic one...they just don't acknowledge it ;)).
Oh, and matzah is unleavened bread.

Here is an online haggadah that outlines the seder: http://www.godonthe.net/passover/messianic_haggadah.html

Disclaimer: After reading through that...it'll give you an idea, but they also added some of their own speeches in there. Nothing wrong with that, but just so you know some of the speeches aren't part of the basic seder...

The absolute best Passover moment of all time: My little sister opened the door to see if Elijah was out there, and the cat walked in.

Mandy...that was really interesting, thanks for sharing!! :hug:

Nope, no Easter decorations that I can think of. Although, my mom is obsessed with the fact that we don't believe in the Easter Bunny so she takes every opportunity she can to give the kids something with the Easter Bunny on it. It's pretty funny.

Lots of cooking here too. I make homemade pierogies for Easter dinner. It's part of my grandmother's Slovac heritage. I wish I knew how to make the Russian eggs my mom used to make with her.