I first flipped over Pancake Day (Shrove Thuesday) as a student teacher interning in England when my housemates shared this tasty tradition with me. Although English pancakes are more flat like crêpes and topped with lemon juice and sugar, it didn’t prevent me from partaking in the feast.
When I met my Scottish hubbie, it only seemed natural to continue with the Pancake Day fun year after year. However, we modified the British tradition slightly with American-style pancakes and syrup.
During my teaching career, I shared Pancake Day with my students. I stuffed them with fluffy flapjacks as they wrote flavorful essays to demonstrate their knowledge and enthusiasm of the day.
When I became a mom, I hosted Pancake Day play dates for our mommy friends and their children. After moving to our new neighborhood in 2006, we introduced Pancake Day to our Moms on the Go friends the following year and of course, they flipped over the fun too. We read stories while eating pancakes and even held pancake relays in the true spirit of the day.
Now, every year my children look forward to eating pancakes all day long with their friends on Pancake Day.
But, I simply savor every sweet morsel and memory this day has always served.
Wow, I hadn’t realized that pancakes get their very own “day”! 🙂
I love the idea of a pancake day!
pancakes rule..my fave breakfast…
That sounds like such a great tradition! 🙂
Wait! I missed it and I didn’t even know it? I hate it when that happens! 🙂
What a fun tradition. I am a big fan of crepes. Never had them with lemon and sugar but it sounds yummy.
Seriously? There is a whole day just for pancakes? I love it!!
What a sweet tradition… get it, sweet. Sorry. I can’t resist a pun.
Super cute babies.
What cool memories you are making with them. It is generally things like that that give children the best long term memories.
Now I love pancakes with sausage especially, but…. they make me soooooo full after that I don’t have them all time, but they are so good. Love the idea of Pancake day.
great idea! I love pancakes with corn in them, yum!
love it, very cute and pancake day is awesome
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Does it count if I just take my kids to IHOP on the same day every year?
It totally counts! And next Tuesday, Feb 23 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., IHOP is serving free pancakes to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network.
I’ll have to check into this tradition. I could spend a whole day eating pancakes. Love the photo, so sweet.
Pancake Day sounds like the best day ever! 😉
That’s an amazing tradition. I just recently heard of Pancake day. Really puts the twist in the time my wife decided to put a King cake baby in our pancakes.
Thanks for sharing,
Great post! I’m thinking we should do Pancake Day here at our house tomorrow. Wanna come over? 🙂
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