Making memories and celebrating milestones

Cathy Madavan believes reinforcing our own family’s values through our unique traditions and routines is vital.

This is the time of year where you will find me rummaging at the back of a wardrobe for a box containing a rather random selection of spring and Easter decorations. Our younger daughter has always had a bit of a thing for spring decorating, and over the years we have accumulated quite the array of chicks, fake-grass table runners, rabbits and baskets of eggs. There is, it must be said, nothing classy or ‘Instagrammable’ whatsoever about this garish collection of kitsch clutter. Our ‘tablescape’ will not be adorning the pages of Ideal Home magazine any time soon. It is just something very silly we do, and alongside the highly anticipated Easter egg hunts and obligatory roast lamb after church on Easter Sunday, it has become part of our family traditions.