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!!!