Easter Week

I've been working on finding some meaningful ways to help celebrate the true meaning of Easter at our house with Ella. Luckily I didn't have to look too far as the April issue of the Friend has a great article to help do just that: starting with Jesus' entrance in Jerusalem in preparation for the Passover until his Burial and Resurrection, we can take each day to read scriptures regarding the main events of that very special and sacred week that led to His ultimate sacrifice for mankind and His glorious Resurrection for the same.


[I am truly grateful for His life and His death and resurrection and I know He is my dear Savior.]

This morning I found great ideas/traditions some families have for Easter...here. So I'm going to adopt and adapt some of these as follows:

 - First, "plaster" walls and other various places in the living room with Easter Gospel art posters of this week's events and numbered each of them in chronological order. (I already did this.)
-We'll have Ella find the poster (starting with #1) corresponding to that day's event (i.e. Passover, Last Supper, etc.) and once she finds the right picture/event, we'll read the referenced scriptures for that day's event.

(-Since we've been sick this weekend, we're a little late on Days 8 and 7, Passover and Entrance in Jerusalem but I think we can get caught up tonight at FHE.)
-We'll continue on until we got all the pictures and finish off with a nice Easter dinner on Sunday after church.

-How about the oh-so-fun Easter Egg Hunt?? No worries, we'll have that baked in to our Thu night festivities. :)

I really can't wait for this! I hope Ella will have fun and in the process catch the Easter Spirit! I'll definitely have a follow-up post to report how it went.
(For the past few years we've used this little $3 Walmart-bought children's board book, to help teach the true meaning of Easter:

 (Another idea mentioned on the blog I read and linked to above, was to renacting some of the scenes and have a simple meal of lentil soup and pita on Thu. Since we're low on numbers, we'll probably just do the dinner :-.)

And speaking of food, for our Sunday Easter dinner, we'll try to make it fun and healthy with some of these must-have's:

-Easter eggs
-Drob (with chicken livers)

-fresh fruit assortment

-spinach and toffu roll-ups

-braised lamb chops

-couscous salad with garbanzo or black beans

-beets salad

-AND.... drum roll!!!!!!! COZONAC :) (That if I get well enough in time to make some. If not, plan B is carrot cake.)

Happy Easter preparations, everyone! Let's never forget that He is the reason for the season.