Things That Crack Me Up

This year Dave found the "Baby Jesus" in our King's Cake.
Every year, around Mardi Gras, we buy a King's Cake from our local grocery store. We don't understand much of the history behind it, but we know it has something to do with lent and Mardi Gras, and the Three Kings, and Jesus' birth.

Legend has it that you hid the baby Jesus in the sweet roll cake and whoever finds it in their piece has good luck . . . and buys next year's cake!

This year Dave found our Baby Jesus. It was pretty hilarious.


A pic of the whole King's cake.


And now, for some of the other things that crack me up this week:


Jr. has been saving a lot of his pizza-making money. This was one of his first big purchases: a console that fits on his phone so he can play games using the console. Teenager-move, right? (Don't worry, he has a long term savings that he isn't allowed to touch, so these purchases are in the "okay" area for him.)

Dave and the kids the Saturday before the Superbowl, creating a Meehan Family square sheet thingy with their Grandma Mary, Gpa Rory, Uncles, Aunts, and cousins. It was a lot of fun. Everyone Skyped in their picks. (And Camry and Kaya both won!)

We were looking for CityKitty the other day for a LONG time. Turned out she was sleeping in the mop bucket in the laundry room. Talk about Hide-n-Seek!

The other night I woke up at 4am and asked Dave if he would heat up the "Homemade Heating Pad" for me. My back was really hurting. He was half asleep. I was half asleep, and so I yelled from our room (to him in the kitchen): "it's in the junk drawer, has corn or rice in it, and you micro for 2 minutes."

And at about minute 1 I started to smell popcorn and butter. And I heard popping. Like, a lot of popping.

I was sure Dave had ruined the homemade heating pad.

Turns out I was wrong.

After 2 minutes went by, Dave walked in and said "Here's your popcorn."

"Huh? Why would I put popcorn on my back, Dave?"

He said "I was thinking the same thing."

Oh man! We are losing our hearing. Help us.



We've been continuing our goal of getting rid of things we don't NEED or that don't bring us JOY. (Part of the Minimalists' Podcast challenge.) We are at Day 30 and we have parted/donated with 465+ items.


And finally, Happy Valentine's Day!



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