Are There Do-Overs for Lent?

I failed Lent.

I decided to give up sweets for Lent. This is a biggie for me, but it was the best thing I could think of to give up that would be a real sacrifice for me while still not inconveniencing the rest of the family. Katie baked these today...

and I didn't even eat a Crumb. I told my mom about giving up sweets for Lent, and she "cancelled" the baked goods that she was going to send for Valentine's Day. (My mom is the best baker in the world, so this is a Major League sacrifice. Ed was very sad.)

So today Ed went to the Food Lion for milk, and he came home with a king size Twix bar. We always share the king size Twix bars out four ways. I was on auto-pilot when I took the bar, unwrapped it, and ate my piece. I didn't even Think about it until an hour later, when Ed told Katie that her Twix was on the counter, and I mentioned that I'd eaten my piece. He looked at me and laughed, and then I remembered. Aaargh! Ed says it doesn't really count as breaking my Lent sacrifice because forgetting isn't the same as giving in to temptation. (But Ed is somewhat eccentric in his interpretation of religious practices, so I'm not much comforted.)

Travis and I were doing grammar today, adjectives, specifically, when he asked me when the grammar book got to the interesting questions, like how big the Biggest number is and where God came from. I flipped through our book, Building with Diligence: English 4, and had to inform him that, at least for this year, our grammar program wasn't hitting those topics. Grammar is Travis's least favorite subject. He thinks we should ditch it and study philosophy instead. He says that when he discovers a number bigger than any number that anyone else has found before, he is going to name it Travillion. That does have a certain ring to it, doesn't it?