| Celebrate this season of renewal, abundance and | | | | cardstock and ask them to handwrite a message |
| love with some new family traditions. Here are | | | | especially for the Easter holiday - perhaps ways |
| seven ideas:1. Create a kindness wreath for your | | | | that they are feeling joy, gratitude, or |
| front door. Begin with a small, plain wreath. A | | | | hopefulness. Snap a photo of each guest and |
| week or two before Easter, distribute 10 or more | | | | create a simple (and quick) mini scrapbook album |
| ribbons in bright spring colors to each family | | | | as a keepsake, featuring one page for each guest |
| member. Whenever someone reaches out to | | | | - with their photo and Easter message.6. Make a |
| another in kindness during the week, another | | | | Garden Journal. Cover an ordinary dime-store |
| ribbon is tied onto the wreath.2. Fill a wicker | | | | composition book or journal with spring patterned |
| basket with handmade cards featuring cheerful | | | | papers or magazine clippings of your favorite |
| messages and perhaps a small gift or two. Leave | | | | flowers. Now record the process of creating your |
| the basket anonymously on a friend's doorstep, | | | | family garden this year. Make sure to include |
| along with a request that they empty the basket | | | | pictures of each of you working in the soil. Don't |
| and do the same for someone else.3. Sit down | | | | forget the journaling - and lots of flower |
| with your children and each create a special | | | | pressings.7. Buy or make handmade Easter |
| collage or drawing that depicts what Easter | | | | greeting cards and send them to friends and |
| means to each of you. The artwork can become | | | | family. Make a point to send out at least seven |
| a permanent part of your family's Easter | | | | cards this season to people with whom you'd like |
| decorations. Before they go into storage at the | | | | to create a deeper friendship.May these ideas for |
| end of the season, scan them or take a | | | | Easter family traditions spark more ideas that you |
| photograph so you can record the artwork in | | | | can use throughout the year to celebrate the |
| your family journal or scrapbook album.4. | | | | beauty that comes to us through friends and |
| Videotape (or audiotape) young children singing a | | | | family.Susie Cortright is the founder of as well as |
| fun seasonal song. These renditions of "Little | | | | Momscape's Online Scrapbooking Magazine and |
| Bunny Foo Foo" and "Here Comes Peter | | | | Momscape's Organic Living Channel - all of which |
| Cottontail" will be treasured for years to come. | | | | celebrate the simple splendor in our everyday |
| Make copies and send the tapes to family and | | | | lives. Visit her site today to subscribe to her free |
| friends whom you can't be with on Easter.5. When | | | | weekly newsletters featuring fresh new ideas and |
| it's time for your annual Easter get together, | | | | inspiration. |
| present each guest with a 6x6 or 8x8 sheet of | | | | |