If you are unfamiliar with a paczki it is a huge glorified filled doughnut. It is delicious but is packed with thousands of calories. Eat one and fast the rest of the day for best results, seriously. The whole idea for the calorie laden pastry is to celebrate Shrove Tuesday. Folks fill themselves up with tons of rich and fatty foods like gluttonous pigs because the very next day is Ash Wednesday which begins Lent and forty days of fasting, no meat on Fridays and lots of church visits. Lent is meant to be a time to evaluate your relationship with God and better yourself and be a more positive Christian. There is much more meaning and depth to it but that is what I was able to share with my toddlers today while they were enjoying their paczkis. Don't forget to use teachable moments whenever you can get them in.
Hope to see you again soon.
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