Good Cheer understands that Easter is a time of celebration and fun!
In keeping with that spirit; we’ve decided to have a little fun at the Good Cheer Thrift Stores.
When you or a member of your family wear an Easter bonnet to the Good Cheer Thrift stores on Saturday, April 3rd, you will receive a 25% discount on everything in our thrift stores. Yes, that means everything; even items marked with an “X”!
This is something that you can have fun with. Just find a cap or a hat and decorate it! Kids love this kind of stuff and it can save you some money when you’re shopping our thrift stores.
Be prepared, the Good Cheer staff will take pictures of everyone who participates and we’ll place the pictures on our new Good Cheer blog. The person who receives the most votes for their hat will win a $100 Good Cheer gift certificate. You’ll want to encourage all your friends and family to vote for your hat!
All you have to do in order to vote is to go to this blog site and look for the “Easter Bonnet Photos Post.” The photo post should be up by Tuesday of next week. We will number each photo; all you have to do is identify the one that caught your eye. Just click on responses at the top of the post; if there are no responses that means your are the first. If you are having problems with that; you can just email me directly with your vote at kathy@goodcheer.org.
Don’t have an Easter bonnet or cap? Make your own! The more unusual and creative the better!
Even adults can have fun!
To most people Easter is a celebration of the Resurrection of Christ.
This year the 2010 Easter Date of April 4th applies to the western calendar (Catholic and Protestant Churches), and also to the The Eastern Orthodox church. This is an unusual event since the two branches of Christianity have different methods for calculating the correct date for Easter. There are only a few years each century when the Easter dates match like this so Easter 2010 is seen as extra special.
The ancient Saxons celebrated the return of spring with an uproarious festival commemorating their goddess of offspring and of springtime. Some called this a pagan festival. As it happened, the pagan festival of Eastre occurred at the same time of year as the Christian observance of the Resurrection of Christ. It made sense, therefore, to alter the festival itself, to make it a Christian celebration as converts were slowly won over. The early name, Eastre, was eventually changed to its modern spelling, Easter.
The Easter Egg
As with the Easter Bunny and the holiday itself, the Easter Egg predates the Christian holiday of Easter. The exchange of eggs in the springtime is a custom that was centuries old when Easter was first celebrated by Christians.
From the earliest times, the egg was a symbol of rebirth in most cultures. Eggs were often wrapped in gold leaf or, if you were a peasant, colored brightly by boiling them with the leaves or petals of certain flowers.
Today, children hunt colored eggs and place them in Easter baskets along with the modern version of real Easter eggs — those made of plastic or chocolate candy.
Good Cheer!
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