April 17, 2025

We Are the Hansons: Our Easter Traditions – Faith, Fun, and a Whole Lot of Eggs!

We Are the Hansons: Our Easter Traditions – Faith, Fun, and a Whole Lot of Eggs!

In this joyful Easter episode of We Are the Hansons, we share the colorful chaos and heartfelt moments behind our family’s favorite spring holiday traditions. From sunrise services and teaching the true meaning of Easter to laughter-filled egg hunts and candy-fueled chaos, we dive into how faith and family shape our celebration. Whether you’re curious about how big families roll during holidays or just looking for new traditions to try, this episode will have you smiling, laughing, and maybe craving a few jellybeans. 🐣✝️🎉

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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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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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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.

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there that's willing to help, I think they open up.

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But it's hard to tell somebody that you're struggling.

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I mean it is. But if there's anybody that you

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should be able to tell, it should be your family.

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Your family should have your back, your sham. Your family

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should not talk behind your back.

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That's the biggest thing though, is sometimes you don't want

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your family to know because you're embarrassed.

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but that's just part of life. Yeah, And hopefully, well

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hopefully you have a strong enough relationship with people in

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your family that you can get over that. That you know,

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the last person that my kids ever have to worry

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about telling something to is me, yeah, you know, and

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then maybe maybe you Yeah.

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I try and help as best as I can.

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Now, this is kind of weird, but for Easter a

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lot of times, what we used to we had this

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machine called it Coco Motion. I still have it, Okay,

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so it's somewhere folks, but we used to make it.

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We'll tell them about it.

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It's just a machine, and they're very expensive. You wouldn't

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look at it and think, man, that thing's over one

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hundred dollars because it's just a small, little white mister

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coffee machine. And it looks like a tea machine, kind

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of like what you'd make tea in. But you add

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your milk and you had your Hershey's cocoa, and you

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add your vanilla, and you add your sugar and you

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just click a button and it spins it and heats it.

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At the same time it's homemade hot chocolate.

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Right, And so we would do that a lot of times.

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My grandpa, when he was still alive. Grandma would go

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to Sunday church and Grandpa would stay behind and he

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would make eggs and cheesy fried potatoes. Yes, every Sunday,

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you remember every Easter Sunday. That's what he did. So

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when Grandma came home, it wasn't until a little bit

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later that everybody showed up there, like three o'clock in

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the afternoon. But it was awesome and we absolutely loved it.

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And you know, I think little memories like that are

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important to build.

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And I remember cramming everyone into Grandma's little house.

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Yes, my grandma lived in a trailer, like a sixteen

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by eighty trailer, and we probably had forty or fifty

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people in there every Sunday. Yeah, and she absolutely loved that.

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Everybody there loved it. It was just a great time.

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It was one of them times you had to go

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outside the house because it was so hot in the

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house because it's just so many people in there.

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It was fun though, right, So folks, go enjoy Easter.

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Don't forget why we celebrate Easter. Use it as a

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time to clean your soul. Use it as a time

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to mend family problems. Use it as a time to

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create tradition and just renewal, not just spiritually but emotionally

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and relationally. You know, remember what's really important in this world.

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And I think Easter is a good time to start

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remembering these things.

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