Can anyone explain Easter to me?

I once tried explaining the Easter Bunny to my Italian mother in law and she just looked at me like I was insane. 

Rabbits, bring colored eggs, and leave chocolate Bunnies? 

WTF are you talking about?  and then you go out to the garden, to look for eggs left by a rabbit? 

and then I tried to explain Santa Claus.......

this fat guy in a red suit, breaks into your house and leaves presents  made my elves who live at the North pole, and are delivered by flying reindeer pulling a sleigh thru the air. 

I thought she was gonna have me committed. 

We really do teach our children some pretty insane nonsense. 

To the one who mentioned Passover:  When the angel of death saw the blood of the sacrificial lamb on the doorposts, he "passed over" the Israelites' houses in Egypt.  

Similarly, when God sees that Christian believers  have the blood of Jesus Christ as a covering for our sin, we are "passed over" for judgement in hell and instead are welcomed into heaven.  

Since Jesus rose again, we also will rise.  Hallelujah! 

Your confusing two different traditions. One is the Christian tradition celebrating the entire week that Jesus had returned to Jerusalem, was accused of crimes and arrested, sentenced, and executed on the cross (Good Friday), entombed in a cave (burial), then coming back to life (resurrection) on Easter Sunday. It is the basis of of Christianity, that Christ fulfilled a promise made since the time of Adam and Eve that god would send his only son to bring the promise of salvation and eternal life to those who believed in him. 

The decoration of eggs, candy, gift giving, and Easter bunny are all remnants of European pagan traditions celebrating spring and the return of life to earth since earth was viewed as either dying or sleeping during the winter. Spring then was the earth coming back to life or waking up.  Even the name Easter originated here (not with Christianity) in the form of the word Eostre, a Spring celebration/the name of a pagan Spring goddess (and incidentally also associated with the term East).

Christianity often replaced European pagan festivals as a strategic way to replace paganism with Christianity during the early conversion process of European peoples. Christmas replaced Yule, All Hallows’ Eve (Halloween), All Souls’ Day, All saints day replacing pagan Samhain celebrations. Presumably there were summer celebrations too but those appear to be lost. All more or less associated with the equinoxes and solstices.  

Christ came back from the dead. You must know that part of history.

        The rabbit and eggs are leftover from pagan spring ceremonies. New birth. Early peasant even though they had become Christian, didn't want to give up their pagan ceremonies. So the church jus t looked the other way. And this is still around.

         Like Chrismas trees. Midwinter solstice. Christ revival and life's revival

Stick your head in the oven at 350 deg and wait an hour.....wait you just might be stupid enough to do that  "no don't do that " .

You couldn't possibly be that clueless so you must be trolling.

It is when Jesus resurrected after dying on the cross for our sins and thus we celebrate having the opportunity to have Mercy from Jesus who is the source of all mercy. The following Sunday is Divine Mercy Sunday to celebrate this. Look up Saint Faustina's messages from Jesus and you will learn more about this mercy. 

Easy Jesus was crucified on the cross and died

and on the Third day he rose from the dead and ascended into heaven and sat on the Right side of his Father In Heaven

there you Go

bunnies do not lay eggs. also Jesus was Jewish and he celebrated the Passover, not Easter. it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ

Hosea 6:2 God promised to redeem Israel after 3 days Easter is the fulliment of God new covenant to Israel and the gentiles. That he remember their sin no more. Jeremiah 31

Malachi 1:11 God of Israel name will be great among the heathen

Fullfillment of Isaiah 53 the suffering servant who will save many