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Festival Season II

I wrote in an earlier post that festival season for church musicians stretches from Reformation until New Year's Eve. Then "Happy January" is a breather before Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. Well, there's also a festival season for our family in February, although mostly of the secular variety:

Feb. 2: Ground Hog's Day
Handouts from the elementary school asking for the children's observations of the weather

Feb. 5: Mardi Gras
The bead necklaces (New Orleans-style) didn't make it out of the attic this year

Feb. 6: Ash Wednesday
Several church services and hot cross buns for snack

Feb. 7: Chinese New Year
Having lived in Hong Kong for three years, we always eat Chinese food on Lunar New Year

Feb. 10: Ruslan's Birthday
Besides cake and gifts, Jonathan and I each take the birthday child out on an outing. We're still working on scheduling those trips in light of our dossier work

Feb. 12: Lincoln's Birthday
Lincoln is a popular school subject, especially in Illinois!

Feb. 14: Valentine's Day
What a fun holiday! The kids make valentines, we all wear red and pink clothes, red roses decorate the dining room table, and Jonathan and I went out for brunch on Wednesday (just the two of us).

Feb. 18: Presidents' Day
Holiday for all the kids but not for Jonathan. The kids and I will probably head to the planetarium, which is where we bought our museum membership for the 07/08 school year. Jonathan will join us there when he finishes teaching classes. It's a 4-1/2 day weekend, since Grace lets out at noon on Thursday, Feb. 14 for parent/teacher conferences on Thursday and Friday. That's a lot of childcare for me, especially since Concordia has no holidays at all.

Feb. 22: Washington's Birthday
George Washington is also a very big topic in the schools. It's nice he chose to be born the same day as my mother! We'll make a group telephone call so the kids can wish their grandmother a happy birthday.

Feb. 25: NOTHING!
The dossier should be done by then, and I'll have a day off!

posted by Stahlkes @ 9:49 AM