
This morning we made almond flour cookies that were supposed to look like horseshoes but spread out during baking and ended up looking like horse hoof prints.


Then we made a glorious mess with tissue and glue creating lanterns (one milk jug, one balloon and two jam jars--it's "use what you have liturgical-celebrating") in anticipation of the evening's lantern walk.
We (I) cleaned the house--must have been energized by that little bit of sun!--beautified the prayer corner and made shepherd's pie (cowboy's pie? it's beef not lamb) for dinner, setting it in the oven to bake while we took our walk.

Originally I'd meant to head out with the kids at dusk and arrive home by dark, but darkness comes quickly these days--and dinner takes longer to make than you anticipate naturally!--so we didn't head out til full dark and I didn't bring a flashlight.
We had our little lanterns though and we stumbled through the Very Dark Trail behind our house without injury and sang a bit (the parts of the Credo we could remember in Latin) as we talked about St. Martin of Tours and Martinmas traditions.


If today's weather is supposed to be a preview of winter, we're in for a pleasant one--today was the first dry and somewhat sunny day in weeks! Still crazy cold though!
We came home, ate our horse hoof cookies and sat down to dinner (the beef pie substituting for the traditional autumn butchering of meat animals, thankfully), prayed for our soldiers and veterans and afterwards played "The Beatitude Game" from MagnifiKid! until it was time to get ready for bed.
A good day. St. Martin, pray for us~