Easter!

Happy Easter to all of you!

Easter trivia questions!

This week trivia questions from Michelle's blogs "Michelle Duggar's Snapshot of China" and "How the Duggars celebrate Easter". The first Five are from the China blog and the rest are from Easter blog.
1. what was the response from the crowds did the family receive?
2. Who was in the double stroller at the time?
3. Why were the people touching the kids that had blonde hair?
4.  How many days did it take the family to see the wall of China?
5. What did the family try to do with the people who sell souvenirs?
6. What do the family normally do besides hunting eggs and having candy?
7.  what do the family do before Easter?
8. Who helps the younger kids decorate the cookies?
9. what do the duggars do in their kids's bags?
10. What do the family do on Easter Sunday?

Trivia answers from Michelle's blog "Duggars snapshot of Japan"

This week trivia questions will feature Michelle's recent blog "Michelle Duggar's snapshot of Japan"
1. what was the family amazed by? Architecture
2. what was the boys favorite experience? samurai training
3. what was the girls favorite experience? dressing up wit the traditional japanese clothing!
Tomorrow we will have ten trivia questions for two blogs that Michelle had wrote.

How the Duggars Celebrate Easter

FAMILY MATTERS on 03.29.13

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Question from a "19 Kids and Counting" fan: Do the Duggars have special family traditions for Easter?

Instead of doing the typical egg hunt and candy, we’ve made our own way of celebrating Easter. We call it Resurrection Sunday because we really want the children to know why we’re celebrating Easter. We like to explain to the children that this is a celebration of the resurrection of Christ. Jim Bob and I really wanted the kids to understand the true meaning of Easter, that it isn’t about all the candy and eggs.

The day before Easter, we get ready by doing crafts and baking cookies. One of our favorite projects involves writing the gospel message from scripture on paper that the kids can decorate. We laminate them with contact paper so they last for years. Every year, we pull out the old ones and you can really see the transition from year to year as the kids get older and their art changes.

We also love to make cookies and decorate them; they’ll be in the shape of a cross or a heart to symbolize Easter. The older ones help their little siblings with the cookies and crafts and share their Easter memories. I love to listen to them talk about how they used to ice their cookies or do their crafts when they were little. It’s such a sweet way to make memories.

We don’t do candy or Easter baskets for the kids, instead we make individual bags filled with their favorite treats. Not candy, but other goodies that the kids don’t get much any other time of the year. Snacks like beef jerky, canned potato chips and pickles, of course! The Duggars all love pickles. Most of the time in our house, we’ll buy the large containers of cheaper pickles. But at Easter, we splurge on little jars of the more expensive, refrigerated pickles. Each child will get their own jar with their name on it. I put it all together in a pretty treat bag for each of them and decorate them with a cross on the outside.

Then, on Easter Sunday, we go to church and have fellowship dinner, and it’s just such a special time. For us, it’s all about Resurrection Sunday and what that means, and about those sweet memories that you choose to make for your family and your kids.

China: trivia questions!

This is the trivia question for the final part of the family's trip to Asia.
1. Who help the family get thou the streets of China?
2. What did Jim Bob tell the little kids how to react when someone came up to them?
3. What did Michelle say?
4. How much did it cost for the family to ride the subway?
5. what did Jackson say?
6. What are Jana and Jill studying to be?
7. Who's baby was born in China?
8. who eats a scorpion?
9. What is the last place that the family visits before leaving to go back home?
10. what did Josh and Anna learn after getting home?

Michelle Duggar’s Snapshot of China

FAMILY TRAVEL on 03.28.13

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Travel question from a "19 Kids and Counting" fan: What were some of your most memorable moments from your trip to China?

One of the most interesting things was the response we’d get from the crowds when we all walked around together. We’re a very unusual sight! We’re all blonde or fair-haired, and a really huge group. Our interpreter would try and tell people that this is all one family. And boy, I thought people were going to fall over. They just couldn’t even fathom having a family as large as ours. Even the double stroller was such an eye catcher for the Chinese. I don’t think many people had ever seen one before. They just don’t have much need for double strollers because typically most families have only one child. Every time that double stroller came out, people would crowd around and look in the stroller to see what was in there. Are there really two kids? And sure enough, Mackynzie and Michael would be in the stroller, and they’d all be going “Oh!” and “Ah!” A lot of people would come up and touch their blonde hair. In China, they were not the least bit afraid to come up and just touch your kids’ heads. It was really interesting!

The Great Wall was a really amazing destination to visit. Just going up those huge mountains, climbing the massive structure and hearing the history of the Wall was incredible. We got to experience the older part of the Wall one day, and then we went to the more modern tourist area the next day. On the way up, there is a market where they sell souvenirs, and you barter and try to get the best bargains. That was a lot of fun. The kids especially loved that, trying to get good deals and bargains on stuff to take home. I think the local people got the real bargains, though. We thought we were getting a deal, but really, they probably got the better end of the deal! But it was fun bartering. We came back with some wonderful treasures from China and fantastic family memories.

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