St Patrick's Day

Sorry for the late post. As if having surgery wasn't enough, we all got hit with the flu. But other than feeling abnormally exhausted at the end of the day and a "lingering" sore throat, I personally feel pretty good. So here goes.

Here are our crafts.  A leprechaun...

And a shamrock necklace.  I remember as a kid learning something about St. Patrick beating all the snakes out of Ireland with a stick and that's why we celebrated him. But according to Wikipedia, he was a missionary that brought Christianity to Ireland and used the Shamrock to teach of the Trinity.  So that is how we learned about St. Patrick's Day. Except we didn't use the Catholic Trinity concept, but the concept that there is a Heavenly Father, and a Jesus Christ, and a Holy Ghost that are separate but unified in purpose. It was interesting to talk about how even though many people didn't have the Gospel after Christ died and before Joseph Smith restored it, there were still many good people who taught those good things that they did know.  Kids don't learn this stuff in elementary school. They learn about rainbows and leprechauns and wishes and gold.

Ok, and for lunch we had green tuna fish with green pickles and green lettuce on oat/wheat bread. I ran out of green spinach bread last week.

And for a snack the kids had a green donut. I usually make sugar cookies (for Valentine's, St. Patrick's, and Easter) but even though I LOVE them, a donut is consumed a lot faster than 60 cookies, frosting, and candies, and overall the sugar consumption is considerably less. I'll probably still make the cookies for Easter though.

He wasn't feeling well, if you can tell. It took him about 5 minutes to eat this donut, which I could have simply inhaled.

For dinner we had traditional corned beef, cabbage, carrots, and potatoes. Joshua wouldn't touch the cabbage (he was mildly sick) but ate his meat and potatoes. Abigail devoured her cabbage and meat but wouldn't touch the potatoes. Lukas only liked the carrots. Derek couldn't eat any of it because he was fasting. So I have been eating corned beef until, well, today actually. I guess that wasn't so bad after all. I crock potted everything for ease.

Here are our two books. They don't talk about St. Patrick either. But they were what was left at the library.

And at the end of the day, I picked up a book for myself written by an Irishman.  I haven't gotten very far in the book because I've had the flu, but hopefully I'll really like it.