Today was a beautiful Easter Sunday/Nathan's 25th Birthday. We woke up to a absolutely gorgeous sunny day, then made our way to the Easter Sunday service at church. I tend to like my Easter services to be special. Special music, special message... just something to say Hey... Easter is SPECIAL! I can't say that the Easter service this morning necessarily did that, but it was still nice. The service did include a hymn instead of all contemporary music, which satisfied Nathan.
After church our plan was to return home for our traditional Easter pizza. Seriously. Somehow over the past five years we've been away from 'home' we ended up with a tradition of eating Easter pizza. The first Easter after we moved to Kentucky, Nathan had to shoot a story on Easter Sunday. And since it was just the two of us, I ended up making homemade whole wheat pizza. And the tradition just kind of stuck. I can't say we have had Easter pizza every year but I think for probably four out of the past five years. But, this year our friends Kendra and Billy invited us to join them for Easter lunch at her parent's house. We had a wonderful time, and were so grateful for the invitation. As far as Easter pizza... I still made it for dinner.
Nathan said instead of a birthday cake, he'd like coffee cake for his birthday dessert. And boy did it turn out delicious... Good choice Nathan!
While our Easter was another low key celebration, we are really looking forward to next Easter when our little one will be close to turning one! Our belief is that you can celebrate holidays in secular ways while still teaching the real religious meaning. I grew up 'believing' in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny (and the Tooth Fairy,) and was still able to grow up and understand those were for fun, while Jesus is for real. And we hope to give our child/children the same thing. We are definitely looking forward to the new holiday traditions we'll be able to start with our child over the coming year.
We hope you each had a wonderful Easter with your family no matter how big or small your family may be.
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