Monday we celebrated Candlemas Day at a parish over in the neighboring large city. The priest there had invited all the home schooling families to participate in a procession. Since the kids all had lit candles, I had my hands full trying to keep them from burning themselves or others. My real fear was that one of the girls' hair would catch on fire. After many close calls, we blew out the candles in church unharmed. Because of all of this, I didn't get any pictures of the kid in the procession to share with you. After Mass and after lunch the kids enjoyed some edible candles. Of course these wouldn't really ones that you could light. We used a chocolate wafer roll cookie and squashed a marshmallow and red hots together to make the shape of a flame on top. The kids really like eating these. We had never tried that type of cookie before. Anything involving marshmallows is always a hit with my kids. 
Today we enjoyed going to the First Friday Activities at the nursing home where our home school group meets. Since it is February, the tradition is to cover facial tissue boxes (new ones) in plain white paper. Then we let the kids decorate them with crayons and stickers to give to the nursing home residents. When they are finished, the kids frost a heart shaped cookie and eat it for their snack.
After the snack, the kids decorate white bags for their Valentines Day cards. Then they exchange the cards and give out little candies to each other. It is one of those First Friday activities that the kids really look forward to doing. This is our third year doing this activity with the group. It is great how the group has grown. There were over 50 kids there today!
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