I thought it would be nice to share our Easter traditions

My family is nominally Russian Orthodox, so often "our" Easter would be a week or up to a month after everyone else's. This was GREAT when I was a kid because it meant heaps of discounted Easter eggs for Orthodox Easter (back before the days that shops cottoned on to the fact that there is a huge Orthodox market out there!)

We would paint boiled eggs on Good Friday and my aunt would make Pashka (a type of cheese cake) and Kulich (a yeast bread) and at midight on Easter Saturday we would go to Church. Russian Orthodox churches are very ornate and full of incense, head-scarved women, candles and people - all very impressionable for a little kid! The choir would sing mournful songs in Russian (none of which I would understand) and as part of the ceremony we would walk around the outside of the Church 3 times holding candles while the choir sings (a long walk if your church is on a big block - LOL!!)

After the service we would stand outside and have our basket of eggs, Pashka and Kulich blessed by the priest who would throw holy water on it. Then we'd go home and have a huge feast - lots of meat, vodka and dessert.

I am not religious in any way as an adult and neither is my DH (who is from an Aussie/Pom background) and we want our kids to make up their own mind about religion, but I sure do hope my mum and stepdad can take Flynn and his siblings to Church one day, just so they can experience the wonderful spectacle that is Easter in the Orthodox Church.