Karen's Easter Letter

In our family, it is an Easter tradition to write a letter to the Easter bunny, asking him to come fill our baskets on Saturday instead of Sunday. I like this tradition, because it helps my children think about what Easter is really about, and put their testimony of the resurrection into words. This year, Karen wrote the letter (or dictated it to me), and she did a wonderful job.

The picture is of a bunny hiding eggs.

The bottom of the picture is eggs hidden in green grass.

Karen returning from placing the letter in the mailbox (lucky mailman).

Here is what it said, "Dear Easter bunny, Will you please come on Saturday instead of Sunday? We want to think of Jesus and the resurrection on Sunday because that is what Easter is really about.  Don't forget, we love candy...and finding eggs. Love Karen"

Also, this year-- each night after dinner-- we have a little lesson and do a little activity teaching what happened to Jesus the week prior to Easter Sunday. For Palm Sunday, we talked about what Hosanna means. We acted out the triumphal entry. For Monday, we talked about Jesus cleansing the temple. We each wrote things on a little piece of paper that we think Jesus would want us to "cleanse" from our house (like teasing, criticizing, whining, etc.).  We crumpled up the papers and swept them out of our house. Each night we put a picture that represents that day (from the gospel art kit) on the wall.  So far, everyone seems to be enjoying it.