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Do you celebrate Easter, or perhaps another spring holiday?
My family celebrates Easter. I continue to attend the celebrations. Which is not to say that there's much celebrating. I don't remember there ever being a time that we consistently went to church, and by the time I was in HS we sometimes didn't even go on Christmas or Easter. For me, and I think for my family as well even if they don't realize it, the value of Easter is in gathering with family, not in celebrating one event of a morality tale.
What are your traditions for the holiday?
We have almost always gone to a restaurant for Easter. I don't know why. Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc are at homes, but Easter is at a restaurant. And always an Italian restaurant, because my family is Italian. This year will be different though. It's very expensive to go to a nice restaurant with 30+ people, and so the family is splitting up a bit. My grandparents and a number of my aunts and uncles with smaller families are gathering at an aunt and uncle's home. My own family is not joining them because we are the largest - responsible for about 15 people on our own - and so we are having Easter at my parent's house.
Do you eat any special meals on this day?
I guess I kind of covered that, but we have typically always gone to a nice Italian restaurant (none of the Olive Garden bullshit) and ordered food there. This year I'm not sure what we're having, but I know it won't be ham or lamb. I know it's red meat, probably a very nice cut, but I'm not sure what.
Are there traditions that you had as a child that you are not planning to continue with your own family?
Nope. I'm not fond of maintaining tradition for tradition's sake, and unless I see a use in it I'm not inclined to uphold it. The tradition of gathering as a family is a useful one, but the details of that gathering are irrelevant to me.
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