Sunday, April 4, 2021

Happy Easter!

 

TINA KASHIAN: Happy Easter to all who celebrate! One of our favorite Easter traditions is familiar to Middle Eastern and Greek families. We dye Easter eggs with onion skins or colorful dye like many families. But we then “challenge” a family/friend to an egg tapping game. To play, each player holds an egg, and one taps the end of her egg lightly against the end of the other player’s egg. If your egg does not crack, then you are the winner and free to challenge another with your winning egg. It’s a lot of fun, and I didn’t understand the religious significance of the game until I was older. The egg represents Christ’s tomb. When the egg cracks, it symbolizes Christ’s emergence from the tomb and birth into eternal life. As a child, I thought everyone played this game with their eggs. My Irish-English husband had never heard of it, and we enjoy sharing both of our traditions. What is one of your favorite family Easter traditions? Happy Easter, everyone!

 
 
 

13 comments:

  1. Happy Easter. Thanks for sharing your egg tapping. Sounds like fun.

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  2. We always had creamed hard boiled eggs on toast (to use up some of the Easter eggs).

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    1. Hi Libby, that's another great way to use the eggs

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  3. Oh My Goodness! I have never heard from anyone else that does the egg tapping with their family! My boys have enjoyed it for 30 years now! It's a Big Competition when we have more than one son home for Easter! Now I can tell them it truly is a "Thing" with a story! Thank you for sharing!

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    1. I learned the religious significance behind it when I was a teen and it is a fun Easter game to play with the dyed eggs!

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  4. This is a beautiful post! Happy Easter, Tina, and blessings to everyone for a sweet and peaceful Sunday.

    ~ Cleo

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  5. Now I wish I could go back to my childhood to introduce the egg-tapping game to our family. But I guess it's never too late to start!

    We always had ham and my grandmother's cheese potatoes, and as an adult, I added Ramos Fizzes to the mix. Happy Easter, all@

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    1. Hi Leslie, I love cheese potatoes! I also enjoy fresh ham. Have a wonderful Easter!

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  6. Thanks for the egg-tapping tale, Tina. Have a wonderful day, everyone!

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  7. I like ham and potato salad for Easter.

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