Some excellent suggestions for family activities.
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It would be great if people could share some Lenten meals. My father and I, when I was younger, would get our Friday meals at our church; they had the best bean soup recipe. The cooks wouldn't give out the recipe though.
Wish I had it.
dibs on the paczskis!
When I was very young, we spent winter and Spring in Peru. For Carnival there was what must have been a "baptized" pagan water festival. For three days I, at the age of 4, kept watch in our front yard with a bucket of water balloons. I was allowed, indeed expected, to throw them at any grownup who came by. All the grownups wore rain coats and carried umbrellas. Is that cool or what? I still smile at the memory. We had a walled garden and I remember lobbing water balloons over the wall into our neighbor's garden.
My growing up family wasn't all that devout. So Lent wasn't such a big deal. It's a pity, because that means Easter isn't such a big deal either.
I'm having surgery on both feet the second week of Lent, so that's going to be rather a major element this year. With any luck I'll have recovered enough to be able to spend Holy Week on the Gulf Coast with some rescue/follow-up/type thing.
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BTTT for Schrove Tuesday, February 20, 2007!