(The link above should work now -- you have to scroll down to a list of coloring pages and click on the rosary one).
Thanks to Sara's timely post, I was able to print out a short account of the Battle of Lepanto to read at lunch. Helier, my midget warrior, was enchanted with the idea of the Rosary as a weapon, which is maybe a tad alarming. I did stress that you don't typically do with the Rosary what he was doing at the Eucharistic Congress, namely prowling around the vendors' hall aiming the crucifix at people and going, "Pew! Pew! Pew!" (One more for the list of things I never thought I'd say: "The Crucifix is not a blaster.")
I'm also grateful to Leonie for her Rosary Cake post. Unlike hers, ours did not turn green: I just baked, with Crispina's help, a plain white shortcake-type cake, then made meringue icing with a few drops of blue food coloring. The result was this elegant, um . . .
. . . thing. It was Helier's idea to decorate it with an actual rosary; I added the pansies and violas for Our Lady. It looks a bit blobby, but it tasted just fine.
Crispina helped me to set a festive table, using her coloring pages from the morning as part of a centerpiece:
I also pulled out these lovely blue-and-white napkin rings, which my mother brought us back from Russia last summer, and which dress up my ratty unironed napkins so that they don't look nearly so ratty and unironed:
Alas, the flash obliterates the beauty of the candlelight, but here you see the happy family (or some of it) gathered round the festal table:
As I say, these are only some of the happy family. One part was holding the camera, while another had to run upstairs right after dinner to study for a Latin quiz.
