BEDA - Day Seven

I have always love holidays; it is always great to get the chance to spend time with family and friends. Now that I am 25 year old I find that holidays are much different from when I was kid. When I was kid I would get so excited about holidays that I would barely sleep, and then I would spend the next day running around with my cousins until I was exhausted. Now it is more likely that the most activity I get is walking from the house to the car while going to visit people.

Easter was always seemed more low key then Christmas, and I guess that it still does. We had our traditions, egg colouring at Granny’s on Good Friday, and a dinner with each side of the family either Saturday or Sunday. There was always lots of playing outside because Easter weekend was usually one of the first nice weekends of the spring. We spent a lot of time with family, and I loved getting the chance to hang out with my cousins. My parents always did an egg hunt for my brother and I on Sunday morning before church, and John and I would try to see who would find the first egg and who had the most eggs. Being a chocolate lover I ate as much chocolate as my Mom would let me, and there was always a ton of chocolate. It is nice to think back on these the things that we used to do for Easter; I can’t help thinking that sure did have fun.

While things have changed over the years, some traditions have been retired, and sometimes I don’t get to see all of my cousins or my Aunts and Uncles, I still really love Easter. Mom still gets us a bit of chocolate, and we still have Easter dinner at Granny’s house on Sunday night, but things are different. Not to say that change is bad. I actually think that it is good. I like that on Easter weekend we can spend more time relaxing, not having to rush around to make sure that we get everything done, and everyone seen. We still visit everyone, and Friday was also my Grandpa birthday so we got to see a few members of the family that we have missed out on in past years.

Something else that has changed that is also nice is being able to spend more time with my parents. When you are a kid spending time with grownups can be a little boring, expecially when they start to talk about stuff you don’t understand. Now when my brother, sister-in-law, and I come home for visits we sit have long dinners together, go for walks, sit around the living room and talk, and stay up late playing games. It makes family time a lot more fun when you are all on the level.

I love spending time with my family, and for me that is what holidays are all about. When I have my family around I don’t miss the traditions that we use to have, in fact I’m happy that they are gone and we can spend more time together without having to make sure that we do a certain something. I hope that everyone reading is enjoying/enjoyed their Easter weekend, and the time they get to spend with their family.