Before Easter, the narrator's family cleans their home and goes shopping to prepare meals. They decorate their home and the mother cooks soup, salads, pork chops, and cheesecake. One week before Easter, the family goes to church to receive palm branches and buy flowers. The narrator dyes eggs and prepares a basket of food to take to church. On Easter Sunday, the family eats breakfast together made of food the narrator prepared with their mother.