Mardi Gras

It's Mardi Gras season! I think that quite possibly the Mardi Gras section at Target is almost as big as the Valentine's Section??!! Everywhere you look there is purple, gold and green, fleur de lis', and beads, beads, beads! Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday is the Tuesday before Lent....the Tuesday before thousands of people "give up" something for the days prior to Easter...a day that is then historically filled with indulging in the things you plan on "giving up!" The celebration here is certainly not as large as in New Orleans, but there are numerous parades, balls, and other activities you can take part in. We haven't participated much in all of this...maybe due to the hassel of crowds, or the hassel of finding a "family friendly" section, or the hassel of shielding the boys' eyes from certain things...etc. We will, however, this weekend share a King Cake with our friends....hoping that they get the dreaded piece and have to buy another one of these yummy cakes for us (more to come on that in another blog). But for now...Eli wanted to try on this Mardi Gras hat...he looks great - and begged me to buy it, which I declined...but either way Mardi Gras looks good on him - but what doesn't!!