Fat Tuesday — Or Jamie has ice cream for lunch and dinner?

Fat Tuesday — Or Jamie has ice cream for lunch and dinner?

Yes, it is Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of the 40-day fasting and prayer period of Lent.

This year, I will give up sweets as I have done every year I can remember. And there are a few other private things between me and the good Lord I plan on offering up.

Asking my children on the ride to school what they plan for a Lenten fast, my teenager shrugged his shoulders saying he was uncommitted. My daughter decided to, “give up school.”

I toyed with the idea of giving up the Internet. But how can one live without oxygen?

Learned a funny fact about Mardi Gras (which means Fat Tuesday). Didn’t you always wonder how LSU got those God-forsaken colors. Purple and Yellow, not dignified like say, Orange and Blue…

“Interestingly, the colors of Mardi Gras influenced the choice of school colors for the Lousiana arch-rival colleges, Louisiana State University and Tulane University. Whe LSU was deciding on its colors, the stores in New Orleans had stocked-up on fabrics of purple, green and gold for the upcoming Mardi Gras Season. LSU, opting for purple and gold, bought a large quantity of the available cloth. Tulane purchased much of the only remaining color…green (Tulane’s colors are green and white).”

http://www.novareinna.com/festive/mardi.html   Mystery solved. 

Little Les Miles' bedroom.

Have a great day before Lent, and give a thought to what you might  offer up to God to center yourself in prayerful mood the next six weeks up to Easter…