Ankle Socks and Frilly Frocks
Easter 2015
Whilst sorting out my journals this week I
came across this list. It was written
20
yrs. ago and it made me smile and reflect on Easter and why it is so special.
Here’s the list
Easter 1995
Things to do
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Make and send Easter Cards
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Mark GCSE Books
Buy
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Daffodils
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White socks with a lace
frill
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New shoes for girls (Shiny
black shoes with a simple buckle )
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Stuff for Easter Bonnets
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Egg Hunt Stuff
Interestingly I had made a similar list for
Easter 2015. (I like making lists!)
Here it is
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Make and send Easter cards
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Easter goodies for
Grandkids( Bonnets & Eggs)
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New Clothes for Easter
(socks and T shirts)
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New cushions soft
furnishings(yellow/green)
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Marks Birthday Gift!!!!!
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Sort out GCSE Practical
Grades
It made me think about change and how some
things don't change.
I know change is supposed to be good and we
can’t live in the past but sometimes I think it’s OK if things stay the same.
There are people missing from my life this Easter and everyday I wish they
could be with us. However I know that their contribution to my life as a child
is helping me to make my family life as fresh as it was all those years ago. Now
that's something I wouldn't change.
Well today is Easter Sunday and it’s also
my hubby’s birthday so there are several reasons to celebrate. Having said that
I have always celebrated at Easter and I have always had that same sense of
anticipation and excitement that I get at Christmas.
Spring is in the air, the birds are
building their nests and for some reason I enjoy giving the house a good clean!
I just love the freshness that Easter
brings. Maybe its down to a childhood where Easter was always celebrated and it
is a time I remember fondly. Mum kept the Easter traditions alive and I suppose
that's something I am doing in her absence.
On Good Friday I tried to explain to my
granddaughter the rules for the day. I’m not quite sure she gets it, but like
me and my daughter she will one day just know that hanging out the washing is
not allowed on Good Friday and its got to be fish for tea. These are just some of the things that my mum
taught me and I am passing down the generations.
I remember always shopping for new clothes. In those days it was C & A and Woolworths
but now we have Matalan and Primark. I remember mum explaining to me that
during Lent it was traditional for church goers in the olden days to avoid
wearing fine clothes so when Easter Sunday arrived they would love to wear new
outfits to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.
This week I found myself in Matalan and I
was I was drawn to the white ankle socks and frilly frocks. Now as a child I
was not the ankle sock and frilly frock kind of girl but it didn't stop mum
taking my 2 sisters and me to the local town and kitting us out in brand new
clothes at the local C & A ready for the Easter festivities.
My children and grandchildren, like me, are
not the ankle sock and frilly frocks type of girls but after half an hour,
there I was at the checkout at Matalan with a trolley full of brand new Easter
clothes for my grandchildren, frilly frocks and ankle socks included!
Woolworths was where we shopped for the
stuff to decorate our bonnets. This week I went to The Range and B&M. I smiled
as I filled my basket with yellow crepe paper, pipe cleaners and brightly
coloured cotton wool balls.
Again I remember mum explaining that as
well as the new clothes it was tradition to wear a new bonnet to church on
Easter Sunday.
Well tomorrow we will be making Easter
bonnets but I am not quite sure they will be fit for church!
There will be the traditional egg hunt then
we will dress up in our new clothes and spend time with family and friends. If
Im lucky there may be repeats of Jesus of Nazareth starring Robert Powell to
make my Easter celebrations complete.
In the year she died Mum spent her last
Easter making Easter Bonnets with us.
Today my children and my grandchildren as
well as my Dad will all be together and we will once again decorate those
bonnets. Mum will be watching and smiling and wondering how we would ever have
managed without her collection of hats!
Happy Easter Everyone!
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