Pancake Tuesday!

Laguantic loves today. It’s Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday, or PANCAKE TUESDAY.

Today is the day you’re supposed to go through your pantry and make use of all the stuff in there before you fast for Lent.

In England (and some other countries) this meant that you had to use up all your flour, butter, milk and eggs, and the best way to use them up was to make up a big batch of fluffy pancakes.

I love England.

Anyway, you guys all know I’m not religious, but I grew up eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday and it’s become tradition that I’d sooner give up Bravo programming than go with out.

Since having the kids I make it a mission to go take them out for a pancake lunch, and today was no different.

Julian had his with strawberries and whipped cream, Zandi had hers with butter, maple syrup and chocolate chips, and I decided to go with the classic Crepes Suzette. We were lucky enough to be close to a new place we’d not patronized before and the food was DEEEEElish!

Before we went, I’d had to pick them up from school. Usually I get Zandi first and then we run to Julian’s class together. When we entered Julian’s class his teacher told me that his forehead was feeling a little bit warm. After I’d strapped them into their car seats and was adjusting my own seatbelt we had this exchange:

“Julian, why are you feeling so warm?”

“I don’t know, Mommy. Maybe because I need to shave my beard?”

 

 

You know what I love almost as much as England and pancakes on a certain Tuesday in March?

Non-sequiturs.

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