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Blue Bird
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« on: Monday March 24, 2008, 06:20:20 PM » |
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Hey everyone, I would enjoy reading about your Easter celebration, if you care to share, I would like reading about it. Here's Mine:
We had the whole family over for Easter dinner. One of my sisters brought her
new Lifepartner. Her new Lifepartner is a lovely, smart and kind Jewish girl from New York. She wanted to come over and see how we celebrated Easter. She was interested in the whole Easter tradition. I tend to decorate the house for holidays, and today was no exception. My whole family was thrilled with her, she is very helpful and I thoroughly enjoyed being with her.
I was concerned about what to have for dinner, I didn't want to offend her. It turns out, that my sisters Lifepartner is also a vegetarian, so any meat, poultry or fish would be off limits to her.I was told that she wanted us to proceed with everything exactly as we always do, she really wanted to observe and see a big family like ours celebrate a traditional Easter celebration, so we did.
My kids picked a game to play, so we played "Pictionary". I, actually, had never played before, even though it is a game that has been in our house for years. My sister and her Lifepartner had never played before, either. It's not the easiest game in the world, but we had a lot of fun playing it. I think my sisters Lifepartner has a knack for this game, she was really good at it.
My daughters and I prepared all of the meal, and the deserts, but my husband baked an old fashioned glazed ham, the long, slow cooked kind, the old fashioned bone-in, glazed ham. He got the recipe from my mother, the master chef, before she passed away. The meat just fell off the bone and was tender and flaked off the fork. I was impressed at how good my husband has become at baking the perfect tender glazed ham, just like mama used to make on the happy Easters of my childhood.
To compliment his "heavenly ham", *lol* we also had broccoli casserole, potato salad, a large vegetable tray,a relish tray with pickles, olives and peppers, a cheese tray with amazing cheeses, smoked swiss and smoked mozzarella, extra sharp cheddar and special rice crackers, Chex mix, pretty Easter cupcakes, and a lot of drinks. I made two pies, coconut cream and a cheese cake, a misnomer, cheese cake seems like a pie to me.
We had so much snow that our little schnauzer got stuck in it. He couldn't hop very well, since it was up to his neck. My husband shoveled the driveway into the garage, and the sidewalks that lead to the house. Luckily, he also shoveled a spot in the pool area because we put Rocky in there, so that he would be outside in a fenced in area, while our guests were in the house. He's a loyal and loving dog, but at his old age, he doesn't do well when a lot of guests keep entering through the back of the house, where he lives. He gets too wound up and barks too much at them.
My sisters new Lifepartner saw us enjoy each others company, talk about Easter, saw all the bunnies and rabbits of ceramic that I have around the house. They brought me a beautiful huge flower bouquet with sunflowers, tulips, hyacinths, lillies, and other filler flowers like baby's breath, it is a giant bouquet,and it was so thoughtful of the girls to bring it to me, I love it, I forgot to get flowers, so it was a perfect gift, it is breath-takingly beautiful. I am so thankful for those flowers, it made it seem spring-like in our farmhouse.
My sisters new Lifepartner and I talked about her Jewish ancestry. We talked about Israel, she has relatives there, and goes there often to see them. We also talked about WW II, one of my interests, and a favorite topic of mine. Apparently her relatives were from Poland and Germany. Most of them fled Germany and Poland in the 1920's and 1930's. Those that did not leave perished in the concentration camps or were killed in Poland. They came to the US and settled in New York. Before she left, she thanked me and told me she had a wonderful time here. She really liked the variety of Easter candy I had, and I made her up a small basket of Easter candy to take home. She said she really enjoyed our family Easter celebration. I am so thankful to have had her here,
really.
As I walked the guests to their cars this evening, I saw the full moon hanging up in the sky near the trees. I thought of my brother, I called him today, back in Pittsburgh, on his Easter birthday.
As you might know the earliest that Easter can fall in on March 22, and the latest is on April 25. The last time that Easter fell on March 22 was way back in 1913.
The next time that Easter will fall on March 23 will be the year
2160. It's just too far into the future to get a grasp on. But, one day that
year, 2160 will arrive and when it does, they will say on the news " The last time Easter fell on March 23 was way back in 2008".
I love my brother and I miss seeing him. I wonder if I should spend my spring break taking a trip back to Pennsylvania to see him. Goodbye, Easter 2008.
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