Busy days get the best of us at times, but days are rarely too busy to slip in celebrating the liturgical year with simple eats!
One way we have done so many years on September 8, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is with waffle sundeas.
When all the kids and I were all eating gluten-free, casein -free, this was such a quick an easy treat.
I'd just run to the store and grab some gluten-free toaster waffles, a container of casein-free vanilla "ice cream", some blueberries, and some "golden sweetness" (honey).
I'd toast the waffles and stack them up like a cake with a candle on top so the kids could sing "Happy Birthday" to Mama Mary.
I'd also set out a bowl of "ice cream" and one of blueberries (blue and white for Mary's colors).
Some years I'd get cocowhip, too.
Then, after singing, the kids would build their sundeas, we'd chat about Mama Mary, and we'd pray a decade or more of the Rosary.
A delight for the kids and simple for me.
These days, not all the kdis are still eating gluten-free, casein-free, so sometimes we get real ice cream for some as a treat. Plus, now that my daughter likes to cook more, seh sometimes makes us belgium waffles instead of using the toster ones.
Still easy for me. Still enjoyed by the kids. Still pausing to pray and celebrate in our domestic church even when life is busy.
Simple traditions are ones that last. Do you have any for the Feast of the Nativity of th Blessed Virgin Mary?
Impart to your servants, we pray, O Lord, the gift of heavenly grace, that the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin may bring deeper peace to those for whom the birth of her Son was the dawning of salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.~The Collect
