Leischen invited me to join her in the St. Mark's of the Narrows Lefse Preparation Day. What fun with over 10 Lefse Irons and 15-20 seasoned and novice rollers, flippers and dough makers. We worked around snaking extension cords because Lefse irons use so much electricity. The St. Mark's women started the day before by cooking 80 lbs of potatoes. They measured everything out in regular sized batches so that the quality stayed consistent. We arrived on Saturday morning about 9a.m and rolled out and baked over 300 singles. After they were cooled, they were put in bags and sold 3/$5. We were off to have lunch together a little after 11:00 a.m.
It was so fun to share in this tradition. Leischen is the expert, and I am the novice. Mom and Leischen have always made the Lefse, while I enjoyed making Krum Kakka and Kringle. It just so happens that Mom was busy doing this job in MN on the very same weekend. She sent us pictures of her looking very similar to the one we were experiencing in Washington.
I followed up on Saturday by attending the Christmas Bazaar. Their fellowship hall was filled to the brim with special crafts and projects. There were baby blankets, quilts, nativity sets, knitted hats, shawls, Christmas ornaments, baskets, books, jewelry on and on. Everything was so reasonable that I felt lucky to be filling my basket with gift items and good for their women's group in the largest fund raiser of the year. Leischen said that they anticipated making over $10,000 for their efforts.
I hope to join in this event in the future. I found people I had worked with in Education over the years and people who just love my daughter. It is hard to complain about that.
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