That’s right it’s another holiday! (As a Catholic you can pretty much just celebrate all the time (except in Lent)). In honor of the occasion Mom had hot soul cakes ready for us when we got up. What are soul cakes you ask? Why these of course!
They’re kind of like a spice cookie with a crunchy exterior and a soft, almost moist, interior, and they taste great!
And to celebrate here’s an extra blog post! We also all dressed up as saints.
Some of our costumes are a little hap hazard, but this is because no one knew we were dressing up until yesterday when Veronica announced, “For All Saints Day I want to dress up as the saint I’m named for!”
So we all had to make costumes between then and now.
True to her word Veronica is St. Veronica,
Robert is Fr. Goldmann (WWII German chaplain and author of the autobiography “Shadow of his Wings”),
Christopher is St. George,
Anne is St. Gianna Molla,
Nathaniel is the conquistador Hernan Cortes,
Jonathan is Blessed Miguel Pro,
I am St. George (yes, the same one as Christopher),
and Nicholas is St. Thomas Moore.
Technically not everyone is a canonized saint, but more technically anyone who is in heaven is a saint and we believe these men to be in heaven, so…close enough.
I considered giving a short bio of all the saints, but that would have taken forever and it’s all ready after ten, so instead, here are some more pictures from today
Today is the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). To celebrate the month Nathaniel and Anne are writing novels for their schoolwork! When they are done with their great works of literature we are going to start posting their novels on the blog in serialized form!
I know it’s a little unconventional to post two separate stories on the same blog along with all the other family post, but I never claimed to be typical, or us a typical family. I considered starting another blog especially for the serials, but we already have three blogs and four blogs seemed a little excessive for one family (even a family our size).
So while I don’t claim any of us to be the next Alexander Dumas, I do hope you will all check back in a few weeks to see my siblings work!
