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Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras) on Sunday: Our Pre-Lenten Pancake Breakfast Today at Church

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Today, I was up bright and early with three other intrepid “Breakfast Club” cooks (that’s the name of our homeless breakfast).  We met at the church at 7 am (we were there at 6 am yesterday for our official Breakfast Club). Today, we had an abbreviated menu of pancakes, turkey and pork sausage, breakfast burritos, bagels and cream cheese and a breakfast frittata provided by Michelle, another St. Thomas parishioner.  We served our Mardi Gras pancake breakfast on Sunday instead of on “Fat Tuesday” because we wanted more of our parishioners to enjoy it. We are celebrating a couple of days early, but what the heck?  Why not start the fun as soon as possible?

Here are pictures of our food, our volunteers and our patrons.

Bob, Ben and Nora, my fellow cooks

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James in our Decorated Mardi Gras hall

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Our First St.Thomas patrons and me

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More happy parishioners

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Michelle and her family

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Nora and Chris, our decorator!

 

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Published by lenleatherwood

I am a native Texan who has lived for the past 27 years in Los Angeles. I am a published author of both short memoir and fiction, a Pushcart nominee, a nationally award-winning writing coach, an editor, as well as a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Texas. In addition, I am the mother of three grown daughters of whom I am extremely proud, a grandmother of three darling children and the wife of a man I still love after 41 years.

One Comment Add yours

  1. jhenehan says:
    February 11, 2018 at 3:42 pm

    A delicious time was had by all!

    Reply

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