How did your Easters used to be?

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When I was younger Easter for me was like a mini-Christmas. I'd wake up and there would be a huge basket filled with candy, Easter Eggs, toys, vinyl records and other goodies. Sometimes my family would attend a Sunrise Service and have brunch. Looking back, I sort of miss the dressing-up and going-out part; I view it as a temporary pain to be endured before a reward. That and all the strangers telling my parents "How adorable..." It was all good until school resumed and a classmate asked about one of my Easter presents and I told him I got it from the Easter Bunny. He replied "The Easter Bunny's a thief"

Anyway, Happy Easter all. Share your Easter stories if you've any

The same here, but we never attended church. We only had to wait for everyone to wake up, which took eons of course. Happy Easter!

My folks hid out Easter baskets and we had to go look for them.
We even had Easter baskets for our dogs.
Typically we'd go to Sunday school and/or church on any Sunday but almost always on Easter Sunday.
All that and baked ham with all the fixin's for dinner.

I actually didn't know the existence of "Easter" until my adulthood. I have always known Christmas and I like it, but strangely Easter was never celebrated.

I used to get lots of Easter eggs, that's about it. I remember doing an Easter egg hunt once.

As a child and teen I used to go to church with our eggs. But now I don't do this any more, mom does it now. We went to my aunt Ela today, we ate tripes prepared by her and other sorts of Easter food and stroked her dog and later some other cousins dropped in. I got locked in her bathroom later on, but my cousin's bf got me out of it soon.

I used to get a huge basketful of chocolate eggs and bunnies.

My parents always used to buy me tons of chocolate and jelly beans and hide it all over the house. I'd spend all morning hunting for candy and chocolate and the rest of the day eating it and giving myself an insane sugar-high. It was amazing.

My Easters were positively churchy and chocolatey.

My mom would always buy as presents at Easter, like the kind of things you'd buy kids for christmas. Toys, video games, etc. Not as many as she did for Christmas, but we always got some really cool stuff.

my easters were always crappy. my dad is orthodox so the lead up to easter was hours of church services, formal clothing, screaming fights between me and my parents, more than just screaming, lots of chanting and processions and wearing black, dealing with w*kers at church. on the day itself we would wake up and go downstairs and retreive eggs we had boiled and dyed the night before and have egg cracking competitions before going to church where everyone would greet each other by saying massih ahm(christ has risen) and we were to reply ha' an ahm(indeed he has risen) but i would always forget what the reply was to be so i would be like "massih ahm to you too..." orthodox easter hasn't come yet.

My parents had basket out by the fireplace full of candy & chocolate goodies & usually small toy. We always went to my grandparents for a family lunch.