Reply #4: We use it as an excuse [View All]

[YankeyMCC]

To host a family feast at our home.

We live about an hour away from most of our family (both mine and my wifes) and most of the other "holidays" are taken up. So we took easter.

We don't go to church and there's no grace before the meal. We hide eggs for the kids, give some baskets. Not a religious symbol in the house.

And our supposedly "catholic" families don't seem to bat an eye at the lack of religious overtones. Most don't realize I'm atheist. Not that I hide it just that god and religion aren't discussed much. Which is one contributing factor to my atheism I think, god and religion were never discussed so to me that means it was unimportant, so I never had a strong attachment that I had to get over.

I was actually thinking of how to make the day more blatently a "spring feast" sort of theme. But I had no clear ideas and as you point out the "traditional" symbols are already pretty much non-xian.

I'm open to suggestions though if anyone has them. Decorations, games, stories for kids, whatever...