**TWO NOTES: Firstly, I have only two children. I described myself as a thirty three year old mother of three in the last post – I think I was hypnotized by all of the threes in my age. NO SECRET BABIES! Promise! Secondly, my BIL gave me his pix from several of the parades I…
Category: Holidays and Celebrations
Parades # 5 & 6 – Preschool Playground Parades, and Mama Marches in D’Etat
On Friday morning, Jack’s class had their annual parade at school. Half of the kids decorate wagons with purple, green and gold banners. They dress in their Mardi Gras finest, and then roll around the play yard and throw to the other half of the kids. (Jack’s always caught, never thrown!) It’s funny – they…
Parade #4 – Mama Gets a Shoe at Muses
The children are sleeping. The Professor is at work, writing a paper. I’m on the couch, nursing the last lingering effects of a minor hangover (and two horribly scabbed up and swollen knees – but that story to come). I’m listening to the rain. I have a mug of jasmine tea in hand, and some…
Parades # 2 & 3 – Pontchartrain, then Druids and Nyx in the Rain
The day after Cleopatra, a Saturday, the Professor took the car to work. This will become important later. I promised the boys we’d do some parades that Saturday. Pontchartrain rolled at 2pm, so I planned to put Liam to bed as normal, get him up at about 2, and then drive over to the part…
Parade #1 – Cleopatra the Queen Made Us Wait
Our first parade of Mardi Gras 2012 fell on a rainy, chilly night. We almost skipped Cleopatra, but a last minute glance at the radar showed that the rain had moved on, and we had nothing else to do on a Saturday eve, so we swept the children, their shoes, jackets, and a few diapers…