Happy Easter

While I'm writing this it isn't Eastern yet.
It will be soon and I asked the youngest how to fold a napkin in the way you see in the picture. I do not have many memories of Eastern during my childhood. I assume we visited the church and after church? Did I search for painted eggs? The Easter Bunny wasn't hopping around and there were no animations about this bunny broadcasted on television. To be honest I can't remember if we visited grandmother or granny.

So what can I remember?
Mainly the huge decorated chocolate egg my father bought for my mother and a smaller one for me. I remember what the bakery shop looked like, how the window was decorated. I remember the special Easter bread with raisons which I didn't like. The bread wasn't that special though since exactly the same bread was sold for Christmas. I think we had plenty of hard-boiled, coloured eggs. Real eggs even if I didn't search for them. My mother always was a terrible person before each holiday but she knew how to decorate a house, and set a table with all its luxury even if no one could really enjoy it right after a fight or while a fight was going on.

Church, I don't think any lesson was taken home after a visit. Nothing changed. We just went over there because back then it was a common thing to do. Today it is not. All those religions from the past became history, churches are empty. I heard in a video it is what the new world order wants. We should not believe in a god, they say the bible is fake news and in the future science, technology will be our only god. Will religion soon be called a conspiracy theory too?

By now my children no longer search for eggs.
Frequently if they did the weather outside wasn't great at all so they searched inside of the house. Kind of frustrating for the child who can't find an egg or if one child searches for the eggs before the rest wakes up. So I decided to make it less frustrating once older. Each child it's own room or each child is allowed to search for a certain amount of eggs in a certain room. That worked and kept them busy.

I believe this will be the second Eastern the family will not be together.
We have a chocolate egg for each although it isn't decorated there are some bonbons inside. I think about boiling some eggs (I didn't buy chocolate eggs too expensive) and writing some text or just letters (which make a word or sentence) on it and decorating our small coffee table with it.

This year I hope for better weather, so far it is although, it looked as if it would rain (dark sky) so far it did not which is a pity because I replanted some bulbs and planted two small trees and some onions which could use some water (rain saves me time).

I remember how I was a child, still at primary school, helped a neighbour to bake Easter rolls, bread with raisons. Kind of weird I keep thinking of them and I even consider making them although, I don't have that recipe any longer but hey, how hard can it be? I still see in my mind what they looked like and can remember the recipe was printed in the lady's magazine 'Margriet'.

I see
A set table for Eastern. Two glasses, I wonder what for. One for juice and the other one for? No teacup or a cup for coffee? A clothes napkin instead of paper. The egg isn't really painted but has a message in German and says 'Happy Eastern'. It's a creative way but somehow it doesn't fit with the napkin, the way the table is set. There's an Easter card next to the plate.

I feel
There's something above the plate but somehow it feels as if this table isn't set for a big family.