It is time to address the elephant in the room. The only way to deal with it is head on. To weigh the pros and the cons and determine once and for all, which is the better holiday, Christmas or Easter.
I could go all theological on you, but this is me so…there will be other criteria.
Let’s get to it, shall we?
On Christmas, Dad is up until 5:30 am putting together bicycles and toys clearly shipped with extra parts all the while crying on the inside about the state of his bank account. He is finally off to bed only to ripped from his sugarplum dreams a mere 45 minutes later as his joy-filled but interminably loud children demand immediate access to their undeserved booty.
On Easter, Dad hides a couple of plastic eggs with Jelly beans inside just after watching a very special Law & Order and he is snoozing away by 10:07 pm.
Edge – Easter
If you misplace a Christmas present only to find it a few months later, it is a pleasant surprise. A misplaced Easter egg found after a few months, not so much.
Edge – Christmas
Edge – Easter
April 13, 2011 at 4:40 am
personally Christmas is better because we celebrate it with the whole world. Easter is usually celebrated on a day different than the Roman-rite- PRAISE GOD this year it is the same
April 13, 2011 at 7:23 am
Easter hands down. WAY less stressful, the weather is better and no in-law is expecting "the perfect gift."
April 13, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Easter is The Feast of Feasts – and I roast Lamb, marinated in wine, garlic, rosemary, sage, and thyme on my grille and that's all she wrote
April 13, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Christmas has two weeks of time off for kids, and plenty of extra days off for many workers. Easter is always on a Sunday and the secular world rarely has anything more than a partial day off on Good Friday.— Advantage Christmas
April 13, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Hey, don't hate on Mr. Green Christmas!
April 13, 2011 at 11:26 pm
Pat, re: your full article at NCR…don't you know that Peeps aren't supposed to be eaten? They're made for throwing at family members and other such amusements. And if you're actually EATING them, no wonder you don't feel so good on Easter. I put a Peep on the shelf in my office and finally threw it away – after 20 years! It had shrunk a bit by then, but was otherwise intact. I'd hate to think what those Peeps are doing to people who actually eat them.
April 14, 2011 at 3:25 am
EASTER. Easter proves that the Son of God was born on Christmas.