I wonder if people think that it's weird that I've completely skipped over St. Patrick's Day and went directly to decorating our house for Easter. It's not that I don't like St. Patrick's Day. I just couldn't wait to get our first German Easter egg tree up. I mean, I'd hate to let the 60+ Euro I've already spent on eggs go to waste! Plus, it's so exciting to get Sina in on the fun too.
I didn't know this, but evidently Germany is regarded as the birthplace of modern day Easter icons like the Easter bunny and tree. Children were told stories of the Easter bunny, or Osterhase, who hid eggs and chocolates for kids to find on Easter Sunday. German immigrants to the United States brought these traditions with them and spread it all over. Here in Germany, people exchange eggs as gifts and Easter egg trees are very popular. As a matter of fact, I did a search on Google and found these amazing pictures of egg trees. I couldn't believe it. People hang thousands of eggs in their trees outside the house.
Sina and I went on a long walk today to collect branches for our tree. I took a glass pitcher, stuffed it to the brim with pink and green Easter grass, shoved our branches in and voila! We have our tree!
I decorated it with the eggs I bought in Maulbronn last weekend. I also put on some lady bug and bumble bee ornaments as well as some old egg ornaments (from a flea market) that I got in Waldenbuch last year. We're planning on going to Prague for an Easter market next month, so we'll definitely be adding to this collection.
Sina loves it. She kept saying, "Ooooooh!" each time I put an egg up. When I stopped she said, "More!".
Along with this, I have decorations in our doorway, Easter decals on our windows, and fresh tulips all over the house.
The first official day of spring is March 20th, but with the kind of weather we had today, I'm thinking it's already started. And it's kind of funny to think that the mid-40s feels like spring to us here. No wonder I'm in an Easter kind of mood.
Anyway...happy Saturday you guys!
4 comments:
Oh wow! Sounds like a fun tradition over there!!
And I love your tree! It's so bright and colorful! What a great idea!
I love the tree, it's so pretty!
mehhh you're totally not weird for skipping st. patty's day. my family's filipino, it's just not very important to us haha, but i always made sure to wear green to not get pinched :) and awesome story about the easter bunny and i'm freakin loving the easter tree. i totally wanna do that, but maybe not this year, everton might try to eat it.
it turned out so pretty! so cute how she kept ooing and ahhing over the tree! what a neat tradition...
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