Today was the feast of Michaelmas, of the feast of St. Michael the Archangel! We celebrated by reciting the St. Michael the Archangel prayer during morning prayers and then talking about St. Michael. The girls (Olivia really) decided to create a "St. Michael" out of their laundry basket, a shawl, two rulers for arms and a wreath on the head. They created a whole procession, complete with handmade flowers cut out of construction paper, carried in a plastic Home Depot tool box and tossed to the grown. They took turns "crowning St. Michael" with the wreath and then kneeling in front of "St. Michael" and reciting prayers. It was so darn cute!
Later we colored angels and they designed their own puppets and put on a puppet show for me.
In France, the tradition is to serve Gaufres or waffles. So, waffles it was for supper! I made these from scratch using this recipe and added blackberries instead of blueberries. Tradition has it that when St. Michael threw Satan out of Heaven, Satan landed in a blackberry bush. He was so mad that he spit on the blackberry bush and now blackberries are no good to pick after this date.
Dessert consisted of Devils Food cake topped with angelic whipped cream. The girls each got a plastic knife and got to kill the devil devils food cake! They got a kick out of that!
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