How My Family Celebrated Easter While In Quarantine
My family is posed together for a picture on Easter before dinner. 
The table set up for our Easter dinner, which consisted of potatoes, tenderloin, salad, and green beans. 
My dad, Scott, is tossing the salad for our Easter dinner. 
My youngest brother, Carson, found the most eggs on our family Easter egg hunt. Pictured here he is with the pink and purple dyed egg. 
Matthew, one of the twins, is pictured here with all of the eggs he was in charge of hiding. 
John Daniel was not much help hiding the eggs; he chose to play ukelele while waiting for dinner to cook. 
My mom, Kristie, helped my Dad prepare the Easter feast by collecting herbs from our herb garden. 
Our family celebrated communion on Easter morning with grape juice and bread representing the holy sacraments.
Easter is a Christian holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ as depicted in the New Testament in the Bible. The entire week leading up to Easter consists of holy days such as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Maundy Thursday. This is one of the most important holidays in the Christian faith because it represents salvation and sacrifice by Jesus for the sins of the world. Easter was still observed this year; however, Christians were not gathering together due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
My family like many others celebrated Easter a bit different this year due to the coronavirus. We adjusted what we ate, who we were with, and the activities we did.
Before the pandemic, my family would have been at church on Sunday morning. We would have been sitting in overfilled church pews at our church on Sunday. We would have been with our extended family and enjoying a large potluck meal after church. We would have shared in Easter festivities with our church and neighborhood. Unfortunately, this Easter all of our plans and comfortable traditions were flipped on their heads.
Clearly nothing was the same this Easter, so I am going to share how my family adapted our typical Easter celebrations and made the most out of our quarantine. My dad and mom did the majority of the cooking throughout the day. We ate tenderloin, green beans, and had potatoes which would be the typical meal of any of our holidays, but lacked company that we would normally host at our house.
Throughout the day we also had an Easter egg hunt. Typically the older siblings would each hide a carton of eggs for the younger cousins and siblings to go hunt for. In efforts to be cautious of other peoples needs when supplies are scarce we stuck to one carton we already had in the house. My brothers and I hid the eggs for Carson, the youngest sibling in our family to keep in line with tradition as best as possible.
My family did have the opportunity to partake in communion and also watch church on the television to continue our Easter normalities. Although it was in a new format, it was great celebrating the holiday with my family when I would have otherwise been back at school. Being at home this Easter gave my family perspective that even though life is different due to the coronavirus we still were able to recognize that good is all around we just need to look for it. My dad, who seemed to be the star of our Easter festivities said it best, “we may be celebrating Easter differently this year, but I am grateful for the little things, like being able to celebrate as a family!”
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