How to Prepare Your Family for Easter (Even When You’re Busy!)

Does Easter sneak up on you every year?

Between homeschooling, daily tasks, and family activities, it’s easy to feel too busy to slow down and focus on Jesus. But Easter is the greatest day of the year—and I don’t want you to miss it!

In today’s episode, we’ll talk about:

✅ Why Easter is more than bunnies and eggs—it’s about Jesus’ victory over sin.
✅ How busyness can steal our joy and keep us distracted from Jesus.
✅ How to overcome that busyness and focus on what’s most important
✅ 3 simple ways to prepare your heart for Easter—even when life is chaotic.

✨ Join me for this episode and discover how to refocus on Jesus this Easter!

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Show Notes:

Hey, everyone, Kerry, back here with homeschool coffee break where we help you stop the overwhelm. So you can actually take a coffee break and still be homeschooling. Isn't that cool, hey? We are starting a brand new series. I think it's going to be about a 4 week series. On preparing your heart and home for Easter. Easter is a little bit later this year, and I really wanted to touch base on some ideas about Easter.

You may be the kind of person that all of a sudden Easter sneaks up on you between homeschooling and chauffeuring and activities, daily life cleaning, cooking all those things. It's so easy to get caught up in the chaos and forget to slow down and focus on Jesus. This is an important time of year. Some of you might be following Lent and doing something for Lent, which is great. But a lot of people aren't necessarily taking this time, just like Advent before Christmas. Lent is a time for us to prepare our hearts for Easter. So I'm going to start today by sharing why, Easter is the greatest day of the year.

How busyness can still our joy, and we don't even pay attention to what's about. Turn around with Easter, and then some simple ways that you could prepare your heart even in the middle of a busy season, and if you'll stick around with me to the end, I have a free class that I want to tell you all about, so let's get started before we do. I would love it if you would subscribe to this channel wherever you're listening to this that way we can get this out to more and more people.

Hey? Why is Easter the greatest day of the year? Why am I even talking about this. We celebrate Christmas so much. I mean, they start putting Christmas stuff up in September or October. They spread that out forever, and I know some of you put your Christmas trees up in October or November. There's so much excitement about Christmas. But what about Easter?

Easter is the day that changed everything. Jesus didn't just come as a baby like we celebrate at Christmas. He conquered sin and death.

You know, in one Corinthians, 15 verses 17, through 20. Paul says, if Christ was not raised from the dead, our faith is meaningless. We're just fools. If we are believing this, if He did not really raise from the dead.

You see, Easter or Resurrection Day. Well, isn't just about bunnies and eggs. Those might be fun. It is about the greatest victory in history to conquer death and sin forever and ever.

You know. Imagine if we treated Easter with the same buildup as we would Christmas, how would that change your heart, your kids' hearts and your homes.

Think about it.

I know for us. We started taking Easter seriously when I was growing up. I don't even know that we celebrated or honored, not Palm Sunday, Good Friday, I mean, we had Good Friday off as a holiday, but I don't know that we did that much about it. And hopefully we raised our kids. I think we did, because I see them raising their kids to being honored these days before Easter before Resurrection Sunday.

But you say yes, I agree with you, Kerry. It is so important.

But I am so busy I don't know how to slow down.

You see, the enemy. Satan does not want us to celebrate Easter. He wants us to just sort of be ambivalent towards it. He wants us to be focusing on all these activities and not what's on what's really important. Some of you might be saying to yourself, I better want to spend time in God's word, but I'm just exhausted. I get it. It's hard to get up in the morning, if that's what you plan to do. It's hard to stay awake and read your Bible at night if you're tired.

Maybe you're thinking you plan to do all the Bible activities with your kids. But between homeschooling and chores and life, it just gets in the way, and I don't get anything done. And then you feel guilty because all of a sudden Easter weekend is here, and you haven't done anything special to prepare for it.

Are any of those yours? Leave something. If you're listening where you can leave a comment, leave something there and let me know. You see, God is not looking for the pinterest, perfect Easter or Easter weekend or resurrection Day.

He wants your heart.

He wants your heart, he wants your kid's heart, and if you're feeling overwhelmed, you're not alone. You don't have to do this on your own. Let's talk about some simple things that you could start today and to prepare 1st your heart and then your kids, hearts, you know, to spend time with God. If you're not doing that regularly. It doesn't have to be anything hard. One of the things I tell, especially young moms, is open your Bible to whatever it is you want to be reading, put it on the kitchen counter, and whenever you walk by, read that verse, and then, as you're cooking, read that verse and meditate on it whenever you're in the kitchen, I mean, usually we're all making breakfast, lunch and dinner, so we got plenty of time in the kitchen.

You don't have to have a 1 h quiet time, and, in fact, I would encourage you to start small and be consistent from now until Easter and then beyond. Then you can build it up. I didn't. I spend a lot more time now in my quiet time than I did when the kids were here, and I spend a lot more time here at home than when I go. Take care of those grandkids honestly, when I'm taking care of the grandkids, I have to make myself get up, because I know if I don't get up, I'm not gonna have any time, because when they get up it is like this.

Except for we integrate it with me, reading the Bible at breakfast time and those kinds of things as well. So one thing you might do is use a Bible reading plan. We have a Holy Week Bible reading plan. We will leave a link in the show notes to that, and you can get that completely free. It is from Palm Sunday to Easter, but before that you might have pick a new version, get the Holy Bible app, and use that one of those as well.

The whole thing is to begin to focus your heart and your mind on Jesus. He says, Seek ye 1st the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you. We need to seek, and so just start with a Bible verse. Maybe another thing you might do is just memorize a Bible verse as a family every week or every 2 weeks, and practice it, and just saying that and practicing it with your kids should start to meditate, and it will sink into your soul, and I think it will sink into your kids. Soul especially you talk about whatever that verse is.

So number one. Just take short snippets of time. Don't feel like you have to go find a chunk of an hour of your day to get this started. 5 min is enough.
Next, involve your kids in some Christ-centered activities.

You know. Faith, our faith in God should not be an add-on. Okay, we just go to church, and we're done, and then the rest of the week we live, however, we want, or we wake up, and we read the Bible at breakfast, and then the rest of the day we live. However, we want to live. It is something that should be a natural part of our everyday life, and honestly.

I'm better at it now than I was when I was younger. But God is working with me as well. So one thing you might do is read a Bible verse each day of Holy Week for sure. And again you can get that free Bible reading plan and just talk about it right now. You might pick the book of Mark. I believe I don't know how many chapters Mark has, but you could read Mark, and start today and read one chapter every morning and finish the whole book before Easter time.

So those are simple little things, and I will just strongly encourage you if you are not reading the real Bible to your kids. Start reading the real Bible Bible story books are good. but even a 3 and 4 year old can understand the Bible. I will give you just a quick little example. I bought a Bible devotional book for my daughter, and I had to be there for a week a couple weeks ago, and so I was in charge of the Grandkids in their, with their dinner and breakfast and meal time, and so I was going through there, and in each one of them it has a Bible reading.

I'm reading the Bible to a 5 year old and a 3 year old, and the 3 year old. Every time you saw that devotional book, read the Bible book, Gigi read the Bible book. This is a 3 year old boy.

Usually think boys don't want to sit now. He does like to be read, too, but and he likes to like go running crazy and throw balls and go on his scooter. So he is full boy. It's not like he just sits. I mean, he is sometimes crazy, boy. But you can build this in and make it something simple. So I would encourage you to read. If you a chapter is too long. Just read a verse and talk about that verse, maybe just pick a chapter. Maybe you want to read a chapter in John, or maybe you want to go ahead and start reading the the Easter story and just read one or 2 verses at a time and talk about what it means.

Do some sort of hands-on craft maybe once a week, do some sort of craft like, you know, you can get my resurrection rolls recipe on our website. We'll put a link to that as well. Maybe you want to make some kind of cross craft. There are lots of different crafts. You can go on Pinterest, and find some crafts that you could do just to keep their focus when you're doing the craft. Talk about the cross, or talk about Palm Sunday, or whatever it is that the craft is related to.

Another thing you could do is maybe Easter week or 2 weeks beforehand. Let them practice acting out the Easter story with their stuffed animals, or if you have enough kids, they can all act it out, you know, but maybe get the you know some animals and and act that out so, or let them do it.

That would be great. You could read the Bible story, and then they acted out. So those are just some fun things it does not have to be. Fancy. It just needs to focus on Jesus and His sacrifice and His love for us, and the payment He paid for death for all of our sins. And so the 1st one is just short. Little times. Get your heart start spending 5 min a day with God, involve your kids in some simple Christ center activities and then create a space to reflect on Jesus.

It's easy to go through Easter without stopping to reflect. We talk about this at Advent. That is what Lynn is about. It should be a time that we reflect on who we are and what God's doing. So here are just a few little practical tips, maybe a quiet morning walk to pray. This is me.

I like to go for a walk and pray, and I still do that, and sometimes that was the only time I got to pray, but I would go for a walk outside.

Maybe you find some worship songs that really get your mind focused. Turn them on, even when you're cleaning the house, and your kids are all helping find some some worship songs that would be good for them. Find some kids songs. There's some great kids songs that kids don't sing anymore. And so that would be it. And then, maybe right before bedtime. And I haven't ever done this before bed. I've always journal in the morning but I am starting to do my gratitude journal at night after the day's end, so that might be a way for you to like.

Slow down your mind. Think about all the things God's done for you, and journal them. You might do that at dinnertime with your kids and let them go around the table and say one thing that they are thankful for, and that will focus them for the evening on what God's doing in their life.

God calls us to slow down, and even with your kids, and mealtimes are a great time to go ahead and slow down and have some discussions like that, or recognize the things that we're thankful for. Psalm 46, 10 says, Be still and know that I am God. And that's what we need to do. So 3. These are just simple little things that you could do 5 just 5 min a day to spend with God involve your kids in some fun Christ-centered activities and just find a way to slow down.

Just, and it may not. You may not have a lot of time to slow down. But maybe even just like, if you have a small little block, just go walk around the block and even that, and just think about God. I have to actually do. Back stretches every morning for 15 min where I just lay on my back, and that is sometimes where I'm either praying, or I turn on some worship music, or I am totally quiet and I'm like God. What do you want to say to me?

Because I can't really do anything but lay there and get my back to stretch out. So I know life is full. Moms. The most important thing we can do this season is to try to slow down and focus on Easter, involve it, put it in part of your life, put it into part of your homeschool as well. Easter is all about victory, and we don't want you you to miss it. We don't want our kids to miss it.

Now I will tell you that I am diving deep into this in a free class called 3 Steps to prepare your heart for Easter, and it starts with moms. But we move into kids and we dive deeper than what I'm doing right here on this podcast so i'm going to walk you through some, a simple plan to shift your focus and bring more meaning into your Easter season. You can. It'll be in the show notes, but you can go to how to homeschoolmychild.com slash Easter hyphen 3 steps

All right, no matter how busy life feels. Jesus is waiting for you. He is always there waiting for you to meet you where you are. Let's walk on this journey together over the next few weeks as we prepare our hearts for Jesus. Hey? I'm Kerry! Back with homeschool coffee break. We'll talk to you next time.

I can't wait to help you stop the overwhelm in your homeschool