Shrovetide!

Mix and pancake

Stir and pancake

Pop it in the pan

Pour a pancake

Flip a pancake

Catch it if you can!

Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday or Shrovetide. You may know it as "Fat Tuesday" or "Mardi Gras." Shrovetide falls on the day before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the forty day fast of Lent leading up to Easter. Traditionally people fasted from products like eggs and butter at this time so they used up all the eggs and butter in a frenzy of pancake making.

Having pancakes for dinner is a fun family activity to bring you out of the "everyday" and have a simple reason to come together and celebrate. Pancakes are so easily made that even very young children can participate in this activity and this is one simple meal that mom need not stress out about either.

 Tomorrow night my family will be making a variety of pancakes to eat, topped with ingredients like; organic maple syrup, yogurt and coconut sugar, lemon juice and powdered stevia, blueberries, etc. I encourage you to have a pancake feast of your own and join us here at Wise Glorious Purpose as we enter the Lenten season!

Sourdough Pancakes

Egg Only Pancakes 

Fluffy Coconut Flour Pancakes

 

Almond Butter and Banana Pancakes 

Once, 

Twice, 

Three times I give thee warning,

to make pancakes 'gain tomorrow mornin'!

Sprout Valentines made from Recycled Paper

In a bowl tare up some old scraps of paper

To that add beet juice, flour, water and seeds (we used bell pepper seeds) and form into a paste.

Place some of the paper paste in a heart shape mold on top of a paper bag

Continue until you have formed a desired amount of hearts

After the hearts have dried this is what you get. One side is pink, one is brown for writing on. When you place these in soil and keep them moist they will sprout your seeds!

 

 

Images from our Candlemas

This year we tried something new. We made our Candlemas candles for our Lenten garden. 

First we took an old clam shell container and filled it with dirt. We turned an old branch from our Christmas tree into a winter tree to place in the middle. We pushed depressions into the dirt and dropped wicks into the depressions and then filled the depressions with melted wax. 

Here is a look at our Lenten Garden from last year :)