Epiphany

One of my goals for 2025 is to do a better job of celebrating the liturgical year. I think one of the issues is that there are SO MANY feast days, and that there is a bit of deciding that has to be done ahead of time - that is, which feast days are we going to celebrate, and how are we going to celebrate them. So, to cut down on some of the decision fatigue, I went through our 2025 calendar, highlighted all the days we're going to celebrate and wrote down what we would do to celebrate each day. 

So, for example, for our patron saint feast days, we're going to eat something special and ask our patron saint to pray for us. We started the year with St. Genevieve's feast day - January 3. She is Alice's patron saint, and is also the patron saint of the city of Paris, where she lived. So for her feast day we had croissants for breakfast. :) 

Today we are celebrating the feast of Epiphany (a day late, oops), the day the Wise Men visited baby Jesus. The traditional way to celebrate Epiphany is by enjoying a King Cake with a little coin, ring, or bean baked inside. The person to get the little something is the King/Queen of the day and can decide various matters - possibly what is had for dinner that night, what fun activity is done in the afternoon, etc. So, today we had our first King Cake, and Dorothea was crowned Queen of the day. She was very excited about the prospect of bossing her siblings around a little today, haha!