We never "celebrated" St. Patrick's Day growing up, besides wearing green. And I know there is a blog post or article or something going around facebook about how we all overdue the holidays - I didn't hide any presents from a leprechaun, I don't celebrate the 100th day of school, and I don't do elf on the shelf or eat pie on pie day (although my sister does and really, any excuse to eat pie sounds pretty good to me). However, I do like to do a little something for St. Patrick's Day because it started out as a religious holiday and I figured we might as well know a little about it. (St. Patrick was a missionary to the native people of Ireland back in the day. He used the Shamrock to teach the concept of the Trilogy.) Here are the things we did.
Dinner on Friday before - Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots - SO GOOD!
Breakfast - Green Milk and Green Oatmeal
Lunch - Green milk on our cereal (I know, we're getting real creative here.)
Dinner - Patty Cakes! (I came up with that name myself) green shamrock pancakes and green jello and orange slices.
And right now you are asking either one of two questions. 1) did they really just eat breakfast for every single meal on St. Patrick's Day? (Yes, we did.) or 2) so... to celebrate the "holiday" all we did was eat? Not exactly. The kids wore green, as evident by most of the pictures and we made shamrocks to hang on our front window. We also made a big rainbow to hang on the window as well. I have no idea what happened to those photos. Maybe I'll look through my camera again. Also, we read two books, "Green Shamrocks" and "What Leprechauns Do." They were both written by the same lady, whose name I have totally forgotten. One of those boys is still hiding somewhere in my house and my library late fee is growing as we speak.
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ps. Green Shamrocks is the most ridiculous book I have ever read. I'm not sure how it even got published, except for maybe the fact that it is so ridiculous the publisher didn't know what else to do with it.
Dinner on Friday before - Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots - SO GOOD!
Breakfast - Green Milk and Green Oatmeal
Lunch - Green milk on our cereal (I know, we're getting real creative here.)
found them:
I think you mean he uses the shamrock to teach about the trinity, although I do like trilogies too! I think the hobbits are supposed to be Irish.
ReplyDeleteBut anyway, this looks super fun. You are such a creative Mom. Those shamrock pancakes look great. I am going to have to borrow some ideas from you when Lucy is older.
oops. yes. the trinity. he he. I do, also, like those trilogies, even non Irish ones, like the Bourne trilogy.
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