Happy Mardi Gras!!!!
The Mardi Gras quilt is hanging and the Mardi Gras wreath is on the front door, but it doesn't feel like Mardi Gras here. I miss the month long celebration that you can't help but get caught up in. 
Let me explain why there is a port-a-potty on my Mardi Gras quilt. The first year we lived in NOLA I was driving down Veterans Hwy and saw more yellow port-o-potties then I had ever seen in my life. They were everywhere and there were trucks delivering more. That was when I realized Mardi Gras was coming and I was so excited. While stopped at a light I noticed that all the bright yellow potties were called "Pot-O-Gold". I think from that moment on I/we laughed each time we saw a Pot-O-Gold. No matter how hard you try, if you spend time at the parades you are going to see and probably even visit a "Pot-O-Gold", it is just part of the Mardi Gras experience. 
Before we moved there if you had told me that I would put my young child in a small seat on top of a six foot ladder so she could see the parades better and catch more loot- I would have thought there was no way. But we did.
When Ruby was born we even upgraded our ladder to a 3 seater so that our girls could have a friend join them.
I can't wait to take my girls back again to see the city and experience Mardi Gras (the non-Bourbon street version), but I know that it will never be the same for me. Part of my great memories of Mardi Gras were all the friends we made while living down there. Here is a photo that we took in 2001 of all the Nola Mom's at the time. I wish we had taken a photo every year as some moved away and new Mom's moved in.
Happy Mardi Gras!!!
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I am so glad I came back that weekend to hang out. That picture makes me so sad. I miss all those moms. Such a great time in life. I am freaking out how young my kids look in that picture!! Did I take that? I remember feeling dumb not wanting to be in the picture since I was just visiting. Funny.
Love the pot o gold. It seems like yesterday we were staying up sewing that thing. Miss you!!
I, too, miss the month long revelry. Nothing like it! I told Tyler tonight that celebrating Mardi Gras no matter where we are makes me happy because it reminds me of such a great time in our lives, and the people who shared it with us.
LOVE your wreath! Mine's on my door, too! But yours is oh so much better!
Laissez les bon temps rouler! Always.
Oh, I joined you in a good laugh every time I saw a pot-O-gold! A name I've seen only in New Orleans. I love the picture of everyone. What an amazing group of gals. I miss them all. Laissez les bon temps rouler! Happy Mardi Gras.
I agree - it will not ever be the same. We were so lucky, those nola years together.
Happy Mardi Gras!
I agree - it will not ever be the same. We were so lucky, those nola years together.
Happy Mardi Gras!
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