Holiday CelebrationsThese days, Easter looks a little different than it used to in our household. When the kids were younger I would get up early on Easter Sunday and sneak outside to hide chocolate eggs in the garden for them. In hastily thrown on clothes and “bed hair” they would fall over each in their eagerness and joy to search in the dewy garden beds to find the treats in their colourful foil wrappers. When I was growing up, we celebrated both European Catholic AND Orthodox Easter, which included many rituals and traditions in the lead up to, and in the celebration of, Easter. We sacrificed a personal privilege for Lent, went to mass, and dyed eggs red. Now that my youngest daughter is attending a Catholic high school, she has a greater understanding and appreciation for my upbringing, which was so very different from her own. Now, my family has evolved. My siblings and I are all grown with families of our own and we celebrate in different ways. With my divorce (how very un-Catholic of me) and my kids as young adults, we celebrate now by spending time together talking and connecting, eating a hearty roast dinner, sharing music.. and, of course, we still eat chocolate! These days, I like to create a little Easter display on my buffet, as you can see from the photo above. No more sneaking out into the garden on a cold morning to hide the Easter Bunny’s “poos”! 🥚🐰 Whether you celebrated Easter or not, I hope you had a lovely break over the long weekend. Perhaps you took a trip away, as so many families do. Or, you caught up with loved ones and enjoyed each other’s company. Or, like me, you were glad for the break and got some much needed rest. Because some of us had to contend with the next week and a half of school holidays, too! And now, we head into May. This is the time for TAYoga to settle into the new timetable, which includes Friday evening Chair Yoga, another round of the 4-week Beginners Yoga Program, and Friday evening Gentle Yoga, all held in a new location: the Willow Room at Mackie Road Neighbourhood House in Mulgrave.
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