A Pagan Easter

Happy Belated Easter!

Once married we all find the need, for marital harmony, to share or split special holidays between the various parents. In our marriage it is easier. Both sets of biological parents are still married to each other and mine live several thousands of kilometers away. This past Easter was spent in the company of my husband's family. The Ure are wonderful and in a large way. With four siblings, of which three (and soon a fourth) are married, and many, many cousins the family home is always full on these occasions. It is interesting to watch as the Ure family grows older and brings other to the unit how special occasions add and subtract the core group.

All the good food brought back a childhood memory I shared with my brother. Wayne and I being brought up in a Christain home celebrated the Easter festival without chocolate. That is until one year when my parents left us in the care of a family friend, Karen, for the Easter weekend. Never before, nor since (to my knowledge) have my brother and I awoke Easter Sunday morning to a real Easter egg hunt that ended with a giant chocolate bunny prize. I do not remember the hunt or enjoying the chocolate but, the memory of a quite different Easter celebration has stuck for years. For those who know me, I mean really know me, you can well imagine the "effect" the chocolate must surely have had on me and I can't say that we have had much contact with Karen in the years since. Mom and dad returned safely and the Easters that have followed have been well, traditional. Perfect in harmony with all our beliefs and now is shared just as much with my extended in-law family.