Sunday, April 12, 2009

Happy Easter, Dad

I remember when I was young, the Easter egg hunts.

Easter wasn't a religious holiday for us but it was a big one. My grandmother and two aunts always came over for the day and my parents would spend hours before I woke up hiding eggs and silly little toys and fun stuff. I'd wake up and have some sort of special Easter breakfast my dad would cook and we'd wait for the company and the great hunt.

A lot of love and effort went into those hunts and those special Easter meals. My dad would always put on silly rabbit ears or a nose or something, he really went out of his way to make it a kid-fun super-holiday.

Yesterday I watched the Masters without him, today it's Easter without him. Watching the golf was comforting and sad at the same time, I would have been watching it with him in shock over how Kenny Perry is playing and rooting for Tiger. I felt close to him watching it and that was comforting but it was also a deep level of sad.

Last year I spent Easter in Albany Medical Center without even so much as one smuggled in Peep. The high point of my dad was a ridiculous pink straw hat my mother brought up that I insisted on wearing all day and even for my walk outside. Made the nurses laugh, made some of the patients on my floor laugh and it made me feel a little better.

Tonight we're going out to dinner for the first Easter dinner out ever. No one really wanted to cook or sit home with the empty chair at the dining room table.

I'm not sure how I'm feeling, very split down the middle. So many great memories of Easters past with my family and so much sad for the way it is now. At least it's split down the middle and not all sad, I'll take that.

Happy Easter, Dad. Thank you for all those hunts and what was behind them.

And a happy Easter to anyone wandering by to read this. Whatever the holiday means for you, I hope it's spent with people you care for and who let you know you are cared for.

Happy Passover as well, can't forget Passover!

1. I’m a little late (just a little -grin-) but thanks for the Easter wishes, and sharing your fond memories with us!

   YummY!  on  05/20  at  08:33 AM
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