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Easter

What is Easter, for me and a lot of catholics around the world it's the second most important day of the year, Jesus died and then resarected from the grave. Everyone looks forward to Easter as a religious time and as a family time, all the family around the table eating breakfast which is normally cold and huge and of course food that was blessed the day before in church, it's a joyous time especially for the children because it's chocolate Easter eggs time which for them is probably the only time of the year that parents don't say that chocolate and sweets will rot your teeth, all the children are saying yippee we can eat and enjoy chocolate without being shouted at by our parents. The only thing that bothers me as a husband and male is that for the female's it's Spring cleaning time when the home is cleaned from top to bottom and the best thing if you're male is to get out of the way because if you're in the way you will inevitably get shouted at so I for one magically dissappear where I can't be dragged into doing this or that. It's also the time for last minute shopping for ingredients for cakes and the Easter breakfast that will be ok in the fridge until Easter Sunday or until when they're needed. On the Friday before Easter it's a day of fasting or a fish day when here where I live we make a fish stew but this year it will be a day earlier because for the first time our son won't be with us during the festive season because he has to work which is unfortunate but that's his job. When I think about Easter I wonder if all the countries that are at war have time to celebrate Easter like for instance Ukraine, with the threat of bombs do the children go chocolate egg hunting outside, I doubt it but I do suppose they celebrate in some way. During the time that Jesus was alive I know from history and the Bible that people were crusified just as the Bible says Jesus died and then taken down from the cross and put in a cave with a large boulderer rolled in front of the tomb to stop anyone entering but then on Easter Sunday the boulderer was miracosly moved and the body of Jesus was gone, was this his last miracle, I for one belive it was but as usual there are a lot of disbelievers around the world and they have a right to their opinion just as I have to mine as a catholic. I believe. Well in the end I wish you all a happy and enjoyable Easter. 

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