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Do it! Make Angel Sugar Cookies
Today’s celebration of the Feast of the Annunciation has been three years in the making. During Spring Break of 2018, which coincided with Holy Week, my then 7-year-old son and I were reading together from his My Big Book of Catholic Bible Stories. Each of the stories ends with a Do It! recommendation – this is his favorite part. He would love to complete all 175+ of them, but we have a long way to go! On that March day of 2018, we read the story of The Annunciation, and the Do It! was to make some angel sugar cookies.
This sounded like a great way to help him remember the story, and also a great Spring Break activity. There was only one problem: we didn’t have an angel cookie cutter! And apparently it is impossible to find an angel cookie cutter in the Spring – at least at the stores I tried. Bunny and Easter Egg cookie cutters were everywhere, but no angels. I vowed that we would do the activity as soon as possible.
During Advent of 2019, I finally found an angel cookie cutter and happily snatched it up. We did include angels in the Christmas cookies we made that year, but I was excited to bring the new cookie cutter back out on March 25, 2020.
Unfortunately on March 25, 2020, the weight of the pandemic was heavy. Cookies didn’t make the menu that day, but I did come across a graphic on social media with “10 Ways to Celebrate the Annunciation.” One of them was to eat waffles (more on this below), and that seemed doable for 2020.
Finally cookie time!
Today we made angel sugar cookies and homemade waffles, because you really can’t have too much sugar on a Feast Day.
The kids and I started by reading Luke 1:26-38 and then praying a Hail Mary. After they fought about who would get to stir the dough first, we got to rolling, cutting, cooking, and decorating.
Why so much blue?
One of the things I love about celebrating the liturgical year at home is that it brings up a lot of opportunities for the kids to ask questions. As I got out blue food coloring and sugar sprinkles, my daughter asked “Why is there so much blue?” (She would prefer that everything be pink or purple.) I replied that blue is Mary’s color, to which she responded “How do you know?” I guess we’re past the phase of parenting when she accepts everything I say without question!
Our Lady’s Day = Waffle Day
In Sweden, the word for “Our Lady’s Day” sounds similar to the word for “waffle day,” so in Sweden they celebrate by eating waffles! When I explained this to the kids, my son insisted on hearing the two words. He was able to do this with his Chromebook. He then spent the next 30 minutes or so listening to “Lady Day” spoken in many different languages.
I love celebrating the Feasts of the liturgical year in memorable ways, and eating waffles is something we can do year after year, even if we may not always have time to make angel cutout cookies on March 25. I also love traditions that we can keep up year after year – and we have a lot of them! Year two of having waffles for dinner to celebrate the Annunciation was a great success.
Mary’s Fiat
Mary’s “yes” (her fiat) at the Annunciation changed everything. When faced with the group ice-breaker question “What is your favorite Bible story?” I always use this one. I hope to teach my children to follow Mary’s example and say “yes” to God’s will. Today I said “yes” to the Holy Spirit’s prompting to start this blog. What will you say “yes” to? Comment and let me know!
We also thought our Marian Monogram and Rosary socks were very appropriate today!
More posts about Mary:
A Simple May Crowning of Mary at Home
The cookies were great!