I'm ahead of the game by about 3 hours!
We like to "celebrate" St. Patrick's Day the weekend nearest the 17th since most of the "celebrating" has to do with food and the diets in this house are a little looser on the weekends. I won't explain further.
Like every year we had corned beef brisket with carrots, cabbage, and potatoes. But this year we added a mincemeat pie! Actually it was only mince pie. I only bought it because we were eating our St. Patrick's Day meal on Pi Day and I always forget Pi Day and this time I was reminded the day before. I had to look up on Wikipedia after I bought the pie if mincemeat could be pulled off as something Irish and I am satisfied enough that it is. (And no, I did not explain pi to the kids. The oldest is still only 6 - we just only finished borrowing and carrying after all!)
We also decorated our kitchen with some shamrocks! Fun.
And we decorated our front window with more shamrocks, a pot of gold, some money bags, a rainbow, and a leprechaun.
To make this somewhat educational I checked out one of the Mary Pope Osborne Magic Tree House series books about leprechauns and Irish folklore. This wasn't the story but the educational companion book to the story (the actual stories are always checked out already!) and we learned about Irish folklore and fairies. It was fun and cute. I thought that kind of thing was fun when I was little - pretending there were real fairies out in the woods and stuff and magical little wee folk, even if I didn't call them that.
We would be studying about the Celts for another 4 or 5 weeks or so but this will be kind of a good intro to that when we get there, since the book mentioned many times the Celts and the Druids. Seems hard to NOT mention them when educating people on Irish folklore. So we'll call this a sneak peak of what's to come. (Derek asked me again, why do we celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and I told him we aren't really celebrating anything, but it's just fun and everyone loves corned beef.)
Also, next week - tomorrow- Joshua is starting the very last unit in his first grade math year and it is about money. So if a little leprechaun just happens to leave him a little bag of gold coins tomorrow morning, he'll have some great math manipulatives to start out this last unit!
And Kaleb is still cute - adorable even if you ask me. And his soft little cheeks are so very kissable, even when covered with raspberry jam!
We like to "celebrate" St. Patrick's Day the weekend nearest the 17th since most of the "celebrating" has to do with food and the diets in this house are a little looser on the weekends. I won't explain further.
Like every year we had corned beef brisket with carrots, cabbage, and potatoes. But this year we added a mincemeat pie! Actually it was only mince pie. I only bought it because we were eating our St. Patrick's Day meal on Pi Day and I always forget Pi Day and this time I was reminded the day before. I had to look up on Wikipedia after I bought the pie if mincemeat could be pulled off as something Irish and I am satisfied enough that it is. (And no, I did not explain pi to the kids. The oldest is still only 6 - we just only finished borrowing and carrying after all!)
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We also decorated our kitchen with some shamrocks! Fun.
And we decorated our front window with more shamrocks, a pot of gold, some money bags, a rainbow, and a leprechaun.
To make this somewhat educational I checked out one of the Mary Pope Osborne Magic Tree House series books about leprechauns and Irish folklore. This wasn't the story but the educational companion book to the story (the actual stories are always checked out already!) and we learned about Irish folklore and fairies. It was fun and cute. I thought that kind of thing was fun when I was little - pretending there were real fairies out in the woods and stuff and magical little wee folk, even if I didn't call them that.
We would be studying about the Celts for another 4 or 5 weeks or so but this will be kind of a good intro to that when we get there, since the book mentioned many times the Celts and the Druids. Seems hard to NOT mention them when educating people on Irish folklore. So we'll call this a sneak peak of what's to come. (Derek asked me again, why do we celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and I told him we aren't really celebrating anything, but it's just fun and everyone loves corned beef.)
Also, next week - tomorrow- Joshua is starting the very last unit in his first grade math year and it is about money. So if a little leprechaun just happens to leave him a little bag of gold coins tomorrow morning, he'll have some great math manipulatives to start out this last unit!
And Kaleb is still cute - adorable even if you ask me. And his soft little cheeks are so very kissable, even when covered with raspberry jam!
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