Ukrainians use the old (Julian) calendar for religious holidays, like other Eastern Christians, and so today is Easter! Krystos Voskres! (the traditional Easter greeting, meaning "Christ is Risen!" - to which the traditional reply is Voyistino Voskres! "Indeed He is Risen!")
And so you come upon an issue for many children & grandchildren of immigrants, wonderfully summed up by Myroslaw Lomatski:
Christmas comes but twice a year, so does Easter, mostly.
As a kid, it's great fun to have TWO Christmases & TWO Easters (generally, depending on the year) - celebrating the old holiday from the old country, and the same holiday that's held on a different date by your new country. But when you get older, you realize it's a LOT of work to do all that preparation twice! :D One of the two invariably suffers, no matter how hard you try.
I didn't even have time to do any pysanky this year! (featured here are some of my eggs, as I feature them on the front page of LearnPysanky.com, where I give free directions so people can create their own pysanka). Oh well, as you saw last week, my big Easter feast last week went over well, so that's good! I took it much lighter for this week. :)
The Family