Easter Egg Coloring and Meaningful Family Traditions

I know I’ve mentioned it before, but oh how I love Easter and all the prep.

I talked about some of the things we were doing to prepare along with the “Holy Week” stuff, but we waited for the egg decorating until my parents arrived.

Why We Love Easter Egg Coloring

There is something about coloring eggs that is so beautiful to me. Is it the creativity involved? There is something so enriching in creating something. But more than that, it’s the gathering. We gather around together, share ideas, talk about life. Coloring Easter eggs equals connection to me.

A Romanian Easter Egg Tradition (Red Eggs)

I love that in Romania (where I served my mission) they always color the first eggs red.

Then they “chock” them together and one person says “Jesus resurrected,” (“Isus a Inviat!” in Romanian) and the other person says “it is true, He resurrected.” (“Adevarat, a inviat”)

Next year I’ll get better at teaching my kids how to say that in Romanian (it’s beautiful and it rhymes like a beautiful little poem), but this year at least we got one egg colored red…we’re on the right path, right?

It was fun to have my mother here because she hung around with me to keep painting even after everyone else cleared out.

Grace was pretty into it this year and did a little egg photoshoot when we were done 🙂

She and her friends helped us paint some too. They looked up lots of cool ideas on Pinterest.

Simple Easter Traditions With Family

We had a special breakfast with my parents and my brother on Good Friday and finished off our “Holy Week” discussion before everyone scrambled their separate ways.