Category Archives: Holidays and Celebrations

Parades # 5 & 6 – Preschool Playground Parades, and Mama Marches in D’Etat

Posted on February 20, 2012 by RG

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 … Continue reading →

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Parade #4 – Mama Gets a Shoe at Muses

Posted on February 18, 2012 by RG

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 … Continue reading →

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Parades # 2 & 3 – Pontchartrain, then Druids and Nyx in the Rain

Posted on February 17, 2012 by RG

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 … Continue reading →

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Parade #1 – Cleopatra the Queen Made Us Wait

Posted on February 16, 2012 by RG

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 … Continue reading →

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Valentine’s, Updated

Posted on February 14, 2012 by RG

I was going to do a survey of Valentine’s days with my Valentine, when I retrieved from the dusty recesses of my brain the memory that I had already done that.  (It was on a shared blog I wrote with … Continue reading →

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