Today will be short and sweet because this girl is TIRED! 😉
I love tradition. (Imagine Fiddler on the Roof ‘TRADITION’!) 😉 For the past 5 maybe 6 years we have been going to our friend’s house for an Easter egg hunt and Crawfish boil. I’ll never forget one of the first times I was introduced to these mudbugs. I was a teenager at my cousin’s rehearsal dinner the night before her wedding. She married a young man from Louisiana.
When they told me we were going to push their tails into their heads, pull them out, peel off the skeleton and eat the miniscule piece of meat they provided I was confused. “I’m sorry?” I said, “You want me to do what?”
That’s when I saw everyone standing around tables covered with newspaper and a man with a steaming bucket pushed passed me to a table, dumped a load of these critters with corn on the cobb and potatoes directly onto the table and a potato fell to the ground. I went to pick up the potato and throw it away because it rolled on the ground but the person nearest to it picked it up and put it back in the pile.
It didn’t take long for that potato that was once on the ground to be consumed as I stood in amazement of this phenomena. Eating with hands, people sucking the heads (Ugh!! Still won’t do that!), gnawing on corn on the cobb and other vegetables that set your lips on fire from the Cajun spices – it’s awesome. 🙂
Not until we moved to the Houston area after college graduation did Neal and I begin to make friends from Louisiana and inevitably be invited to a Crawfish boil. Now I consider myself a pro and I wait anxiously for these mudbugs to be in season!
Days like today, this tradition of so many families from St. Martha’s that come together, stand (or sit) around the tables and annihilate these critters is sacred. Kids are running, jumping on the trampoline, having water balloon fights and parents are rejoicing in the Easter season discussing which Easter Mass we’ll attend.
Today marks the beginning of a time to be thankful and celebrate the goodness in life.
As an added bonus I wanted to include the CAJUN TEN COMMANDMENTS:
Nough said. 😉
Blessings Y’all and HAPPY EASTER!!
Shannon