May those who love us, love usAnd those who don't love us,
May God turn their hearts
And if he can't turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping!
I saw this Irish Blessing ages ago and loved it. I was looking for it so I could post it on Facebook on St. Patrick's Day. Luckily I found it today on my first search. :)
We had a pretty nice day today. I thought about making green eggs and ham for breakfast, but the girls won't eat eggs anymore. Plus I didn't have any ham at home anyway. :) Tonight I thought it would have been fun if I would have thought ahead and bought Lucky Charms cereal. Oh well.
One year I made a green dinner with green mashed potatoes and green gravy. The kids wouldn't eat it so I decided to try a different approach this year. I had a nice green salad, green grapes, celery and dip (Grant loved the grapes & celery), green kool-aid with lemon lime soda, green jello (which we haven't touched yet), green rolls (that I bought at the grocery store), mashed potatoes, and ham. I told the kids that we had potatoes because of the potato famine that brought millions of Irish immigrants to the US. I never got around to telling them about the ham (you know....the whole breakfast idea). If was fun to be around the table with my family eating on green plates and drinking from green cups. I want to do more things like that for them. I like St. Patrick's Day because it's a holiday that doesn't hold huge expectations, but you can make it a lot of fun with little effort or money.
I always love to see people dressed up in green. Everyone becomes Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm proud to have a little Irish blood in me.....even if St. Patrick was English. :)
