Celebrate!

What are we celebrating?

 Wellllll....One of our YSAs contacted us this afternoon with the astonishing message that today is a great occasion, and thus cause for celebrating.  It is known as Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day.  Shrove Tuesday, as Wikipedia describes it is:  

 the day before Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), celebrated in some Christian countries by consuming pancakes; the last day of "fat eating" or "gorging" before the fasting period of Lent.

 Throwing ourselves into the spirit of the day,  we declared it pancake night, and we truly gorged.  Berklee made the pancake batter and cooked them up.  They were at least 6 inches across and thick and delicious.  We topped them with buttermilk syrup and whipped cream.  We had other toppings, but they all seemed to prefer that particular combination. They were better than most desserts....well they were dessert!  We had nine YSAs here.


Earlier in the day we inspected the last two apartments for this 6-week period.  They were our Oxford missionaries so we walked to both.  Each flat needed new light bulbs and cleaning supplies, which we purchased on the way home.  I took a couple of hours to get all the paper work for all the flats ready and turned in.
With his coat still on, SK is attempting to fix the table at the sisters' flat.  He got it fixed.
In the afternoon, our two newest members came by to work on Family History with us.  We tried to help, and I think we did, but one of them has ancestry going back to India, and I am unfamiliar with how to do research in that country.  We spent several hours together, I fixed dinner for all of us and then the YSAs came for Pancake Day.  One of those great days where we have been busy from the moment we got up to now, when we are ready to fall into bed.


And we had better do that soon, since we will be feeding the missionaries tomorrow for district meeting, and they will be arriving at 10:30.  That's going to roll around pretty fast, and I haven't completely figured out what I will cook - yet.

 Pancakes anyone?

Comments

melissa said…
Pancake day?! How did I not know about this?!?! Dad is young at heart and young in body!
February 26, 2020 at 5:47 PM
Lia said…
I can’t believe I missed pancake day!
March 1, 2020 at 2:04 PM
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