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Welcome to We are the Hansen's. How are you, Maya,
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I'm great. Well this weekend that we celebrate Easter, among
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other things, birthday parties and things like that too. Yes, yeah, so,
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but Easter, we want to talk about that a little
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bit today because Easter has always been kind of like
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our shindig at the Hanson House. Yes, I mean there
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are we have a lot of traditions for Easter. You know,
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I shouldn't even just like single out Easter. It's a
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lot of them. But you know, every chance we've had
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we've used Easter or I shouldn't say East, we've used it.
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But we get together as a family and we have
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a lot of family traditions and Easter is one of
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those things that I mean, we've had beautiful sunny days, Yeah,
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we've had snow. Yes, We've had freezing rain, We've had
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tornadoes in the area. I mean, you name it. On Easter,
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we've pretty much seen it all. Yeah, you know, and
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there's always a few things that we do, like the
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Easter Bunny obviously comes and we find the Easter Bunny
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baskets with the kids.
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Yep, we die Easter eggs like usually the day before.
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Yeah, I don't do much dining Easter eggs.
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Yeah, it can be a mess.
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Right, So, and then you know, the Easter bunny leaves
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eggs around, and then sometimes we will get our own eggs,
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like if we have extra people coming over the Easter
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bunny doesn't know about, and we'll go out and hide them.
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And I believe it was last year or the year before,
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we found all of them and then we went out
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and hit them, and then we found them again, and
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then we went out and re hit him again.
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Yeah. I think it's just it keeps the kids occupied.
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They like the adventure I guess maybe of just searching
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and trying to find them.
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So so what are you making you making this year
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on Easter?
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Well, I am doing a ham and homemade pies and potatoes.
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What kind of potatoes?
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Mashed potatoes?
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I thought you were doing cheesy potatoes.
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Oh we could do that too.
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Yeah. Well, okay, so you've got that. Now. The chef,
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which is me at least the outside chef, I'm doing
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a bacon wrapped turkey breast, like a great big one.
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What is it eleven twelve pounds?
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Yeah? I think it was eleven and a half.
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And we're marinating it, and then we're putting pepper jelly
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on it, and then we're putting taking over the top,
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and we're putting it on the Yoder smoker. Yep, and
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that's going to be wonderful. It's going to be like
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heaven in your mouth. I think, so, I know, so
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it is what it is. But you know, I don't
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think people understand that, at least a lot of people.
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You know. I see the kids's friends come over here,
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and man, you see these kids. They yearn so much
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for just family get together. It's like for that sense
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of family. It's a time that it kind of renews
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your spirit when you get to spend time with family.
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Yeah, and most of the time, we have kids that
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aren't even part of our family that show up here
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just to be part of something right.
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Right, And you know, we never forget about what Easter
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is about, you know, Jesus dying on the cross and
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going to Hell and you know, beating death and coming
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up and forgiving our We never forget about that part either,
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And well that's the most important part. But what I
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think is when you start framing that into your family's life, man,
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it just it kind of renews your spirit, and it
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makes you feel very very lucky that you've been blessed
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to have, you know, this wonderful family and you know,
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children and grandchildren and stories and memories, and we do.
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A lot of like game playing on the holidays, so
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we break out the board games or card games and
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just having your family there to make them memories and
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watching them grow up and carrying on those traditions is
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absolutely amazing, right.
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Yeah, And I think there's something with like always a
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football game. Yeah, you know, this year there might be
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a basketball game.
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Our boys love playing ball.
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Well, anything that you know they can do and have
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fun they're doing. And it just it kind of seems
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to me that the kids absolutely enjoy it and love it.
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Also they do they like to have something to do,
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so if there's a game that they could play, they're
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right there playing it.
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Right, and and the sisters get involved too.
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Yeah.
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So you know, how powerful do you think it has
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been in the easters that we've had with getting our
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kids together around the dinner table. I don't mean like
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just I mean now we don't even have a dinner
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table big enough to fit everybody, but just the years
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of sitting down and enjoying food together and spending those
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family moments together.
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That is very important. One. You get to hear your
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growing kids tell you about what's going on in their life,
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and the little ones are there to hear it, and
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everybody just gets to share their stories and everybody listens
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and chimes in and.
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Yeah, how you're doing. You know, how's work going? You know,
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how's grandma and grandpa? You know, how are the grandkids?
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All these things that you need to know that you
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forget to talk about on the phone if you can
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find time on the phone.
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Yeah, there's never really enough time over the phone because
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everybody's got different schedules and it's just there's only so
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much time you can talk on the.
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Phone, right. And I think Easter is very very important
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because it's like the start I know, January the start
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of the new year, but like springtime, that's the time
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that you know, people are like, Okay, now we're really
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going to start going out and doing stuff. And you know,
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if you're in the trades, which a lot of our
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family is, that's the time you really start going out
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and making money. So I think you can use Easter
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it's like a soul cleansing time, like a spring cleanout
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of your soul and your thought process and everything else
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using this talk and knowing that you got the backing
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of your family and just spending the quality fun time
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making memories.
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Yeah. And in our house, it seems like it goes
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by so quick, like there's not enough time, but we
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cram a lot of stuff in that time there is.
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You know, I've got my own traditions. Since you've known me,
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I mean we've been together twenty two years now, have
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you ever seen me not buy a dozen chocolate marshmallow
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bunnies or eggs?
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He's always buying though, always.
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I mean, it's just that's just part of my Easter.
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That's something that I do. And I know I'm not
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supposed to because I'm diabetic, but you know what, there's
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some things that are worth you.
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Know, getting the sugar from.
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Yeah, and those are something because it's just it's kind
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of a part of my childhood. I love going outside
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and you know, watching the little ones go look for
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where the easter bunny hit the eggs. That's that's one
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of my all time favorite things. Ever.
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We've had it to where they've went out to look
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for eggs and you know, when we hide them we
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can't remember where half of them are head.
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Right, And you know, if I was the easter bunny,
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I think I would do things a little bit different.
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Like I'm surprised there's not like mossy ooak eggs that
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the easter bunny can get and like, you know, make
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them camouflage.
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Oh I've seen camel eggs.
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See I've never seen a cameo egg. But that would
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be something really fun to do. And then before we
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move down south, when we were up north, sometimes we
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would go to like the Easter egg toss you remember that, Yeah,
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down in Fireman's Park and stuff like that. We were
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always done something and it's always been family centric, yeah,
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you know, and I think you know, as a husband
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and wife, it kind of does the same thing. It
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kind of renews your soul, like seeing everybody and being happy,
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and you do get some more worries like well, this
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person's going through that and this person's going through that.
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But when you bring the family together, there is no
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power like the love between a family. There's nothing else
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like it.
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For sure. I mean, just knowing that our kids are
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going to be here, that helps take a lot of
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the worry and missing away because now they're here and
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you get to crampack everything in one day and get
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to enjoy that time with them.
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That's true. And there's also there's this hint of familiarity
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with food that goes back to our loved ones that
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are gone.
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Yeah, Grandma Darlene.
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Grandma Darlene, my grandma, surely, things that they made, like
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you know, sand buckles, when I can make them for Christmas,
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there's nothing better. And that that was my grandma, surely sing.
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Then my Grandma Darlene, she made stroll or koum kaka
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and now you make those. And then Easter she always
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made this fruit fluff. What is that? Like it's like
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a fruit salad. Yeah, and it's the kind that like
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you eat, is so good and then it gives you gas, right,
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I mean.
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It just I've never had gas from it, but yeah.
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Well sure you haven't.
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Yeah, sure I know you have.
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Yeah, well, I mean you know it is what it is.
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But there are things like that that memories build, that
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you know, things that I think when you have something
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like that, like Grandma's macaroni salad, you when you're eating it,
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it's like, yeah, this is good. But there's also that
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memory that pops up that. Man. I sure do miss Grandma.
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I sure do miss her doing these things.
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It keeps their memory alive, right.
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Right, and you know, as it should, you know, or
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you know it. Maybe it was one of the grandpa's
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saying something at Easter when we all got together, and
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you know, thank goodness that we had family that got
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together like that and there wasn't fighting and stuff. It
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was just everybody got together and had a good time.
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And even if there was family arguments, Grandma Grandpa sure
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weren't going to put up with that.
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Yeah. I don't think I ever seen an argument at
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Grandma Darlene's.
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No, because it wasn't allowed. And you had enough respect
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for them that even if you were angry at you know,
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your cousin or what, you still came there and you
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civil and you know, those types of things need to
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be renewed. The traditions need to be renewed from our elders.
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And I think that new traditions need to take shape
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like us. Like when we were younger at Grammar Grammar's,
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there was no football playing and basketball playing and now
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it's almost, uh, well that's going to happen type thing.
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Yeah, I remember Grandma Darlene taking us down to the
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park in Ontario Easter egg hunting yep, yep.
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I mean there was always something like that. And then
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a couple of years ago we went up to Illinois
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to my sisters and everybody kind of met down there
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and we just had a blast with everybody.
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Yep.
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I mean, you know some people that usually don't get along,
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they were all together and everybody was having fun. It
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was wonderful to have the whole family together. And I
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wish we could do that more. And I think that
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something that you can use Easter for is to teach
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our kids and some times a reminder to ourselves of
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how important it is to get your family together. Family reunions,
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you know, it doesn't need to be like a family reunion,
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It can be Easter.
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Grandparents are an important role.
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Grandparents, I believe that, you know. But part of life
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is people pass away, yep, and you got to keep
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their memory alive. But you got to keep the foundational
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principles that they gave you to raise your family. And
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that's family's number one. There is nothing more important than family.
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If your family needs it, you better drop everything and go. Yes, period.
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I mean that's and that's literally the foundation that I
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grew up on.
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It.
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You know, sometimes people are struggling, and I you know,
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I think that in our family we do a pretty
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good job of you know, once we identify somebody struggling, well,
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then we talk to them, how can we help, how
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can we get through this? How can we help that
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person find peace? And sometimes it's only time they can
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do that. But when your family's behind you, it seems
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like it happens a lot quicker.