The Saint Marys Mardi Gras parade was this past weekend. We all participated with Ms. Julie's crowd. We walked along with strollers and wagons and threw beads and candy and the onlookers. It was a lot of fun and the weather was perfect. We had worried that it would be cold but it was nice, probably in the upper 50s at the parade start time. Elsie rode in the stroller and Mary Grace walked with Ms. Julie and "throwed" beads. She was so excited that she walked all that way and "throwed a bead" at her Happy Apple teacher, Mrs. Galluccio.
I had to do weekend bond hearings at the jail on Saturday morning so I had to meet Stephen and the girls at the parade. That meant that Stephen had to dress the girls. I wish I had taken a picture of poor little Elsie. She had on pink and green striped tights, green crocs, blue bloomers, and her favorite blue and pink Mickey Mouse shirt. It also looked like her hair hadn't been brushed. He said he "tried"! and that they were supposed to look like clowns anyway. Apparently, the theme of the parade and festival this year was clowns. I think everyone in town saw us! I heard several "Hey, Stephens" and one "Hey, Judge".
It was a fun festival, too. They had a Cars bounce house, which was complete with a slide! We didn't stay too long, though because it was just about nap time when the parade was over.
Later that afternoon, we drove up to Saint Simons and had dinner with one of Stephen's former clients from Carrollton and his wife. He and Stephen got to be pretty good friends before we moved down here and he and his wife were on SSI for vacation. It was a fun evening. We even took the girls along because we weren't able to find a babysitter. I guess when you get all your babysitters from your church, you run the risk that you'll need them on a night of a youth retreat, which is what happened to us last night. But it worked out fine. We had an early dinner and the girls were so well-behaved at the restaurant. I'm glad it turned out that way because we've got parties on both Friday and Saturday nights next weekend so that will be a double-babysitter weekend. It was nice to spend this entire weekend with the girls.
I haven't decided what I'm going to do for Lent yet but I'm praying on it.
Those are two cool girls in the picture! Love those sunglasses! I wish I could've seen them in the parade. Sounds hysterical!
ReplyDeleteI, too, am still pondering what to give up or add for Lent. We'll see. Gotta couple days to pray and think yet.