Happy February 1st!

I don't know how or why it happened, but I've become quite the celebratory person when it comes to the Holidays. After the Christmas Decorations came down the girls and I immediately put up our Cardboard Conversation Hearts (which never got past my bedroom shelf last year).

This evening John was working late as he does on Mondays and was scheduled to be gone most of the evening so to minimize the "I miss my Daddy sooooo Much" and to keep the girls as well as myself busy they helped me make pancakes for dinner. The Old Cannery put up their hearts on their wall Railroad outside the store and so the girls are very aware that it is finally February :) and therefore they didn't want just any old pancake, but Pink Heart Shaped pancakes.

We broke out new aprons with matching hats Grandma had left for them for Valentine's Day baking and we had a great time. The Girls were giddy with excitement and pretended to have a cooking show and then proceeded to dance/run around the house singing.

Out of my own curiosity I decided to look up February ? I found the history and this is what I found interesting:

February was named after the Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual Februa held on February 15 in the old Roman calendar. January and February were the last two months to be added to the Roman calendar, since the Romans originally considered winter a monthless period.... At certain intervals February was truncated to 23 or 24 days and a 27-day intercalary month, Intercalaris, was inserted immediately after February to realign the year with the seasons. Under the reforms that instituted the Julian calendar, Intercalaris was abolished, leap years occurred regularly every fourth year (after a few years of confusion), and in leap years February gained a 29th day. Thereafter, it remained the second month of the calendar year, meaning the order that months are displayed (January, February, March, …, December) within a year-at-a-glance calendar. Even during the Middle Ages, when the numbered Anno Domini year began on March 25 or December 25, February continued to be the second month whenever all twelve months were displayed in order. The Gregorian calendar reforms made slight changes to the system for determining which years were leap years and thus contained a 29-day February.
Historical names for February include the Anglo-Saxon terms Solmonath (mud month) and Kale-monath (named for cabbage) as well as Charlemagne's designation Hornung. In Finnish, the month is called helmikuu, meaning "month of the pearl"; when snow melts on tree branches, it forms droplets, and as these freeze again, they are like pearls of ice. In Ukrainian, the month is called лютий meaning the month of ice or hard frost.

February was well named and placed...as if I ever doubted it but interesting facts nonetheless.