1. It’s Jungle Day at Sage's tumbling class.Sage loves her tumbling class. There are just three kids, their moms, and one fabulous teacher. At any given moment during the two blessed tumbling hours per week, Sage's face usually looks like it does in this picture. The teacher is so great; she has a new theme each class. On "Under the Sea" day, she pretended to be a shark, and chased the kids up and down a long bouncy mat (pictured). It was such a hit, they've requested it dozens of time since then, and she always obliges. I think I used to have that much energy. It seems like a long time ago. For now, I'm just happy to pay someone to play "shark" with my child. I'll take the pictures.
2. It’s St. Patrick’s Day…aka, Green Day. And who has loved the color green since the beginning of time? Sage. Just wait till she sees that the “green cow” came to visit our fridge. And green eggs and ham might be on the menu for breakfast. (Does the ham have to be green, too? Is it Green (Eggs and Ham) or does ham alongside your Green Eggs suffice?) And that’s just the start of tomorrow's green food…
3. It’s Sugar Cookie Day at our house. Mark works at Holy Cross Ministries, which was founded by the Sisters who founded Notre Dame. Since SLC doesn’t have a river to turn green, like the St. Joseph River in
ters at Holy Cross Ministries are celebrating with a St. Patrick’s Day lunch. Mark needed 25 sugar cookies to take to work, so I picked a classic recipe and went to work. Unfortunately I didn’t realize this recipe yielded about 25,000 sugar cookies until I had mixed in about a month’s supply of flour without thinking. Lucky for me, one of Sage’s favorite activities in the whole world is decorating sugar cookies. In February, I frosted a heart cookie, and set it in front of her to decorate. I got distracted, and when I checked back on her, 2 jars of sprinkles had been almost completely emptied on that one lucky heart! The cookie had some serious sprinkle surface tension, and could probably raise your glucose level merely by making eye contact.It's fun to remember last year's St. Patrick's Day that we celebrated in the land of
the Fighting Irish (with Liz and Dave). We'll miss the dyeing (green) of the St. Joseph river, but I will definitely not be repeating last year's authentic Irish dinner of corned beef and cabbage. Some traditions can be sufficiently repeated in memory only, I think!Does anyone else have any great St. Patrick's Day traditions?
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And just what is wrong with Corned Beef and Cabbage, I'd like to know?!!! We always had that on st pat's day growing up, Grandpa's family is Irish---last name Flynn, shortened from O'Flynn!! This is random but I do recall however having dissected a a cow eyeball in elementary school on a day that we had corned beef and cabbage for dinner, coming to home to that smell after having that ultra-educational experience, may well have ruined by acceptance of that meal in my life-can't say I've had it since! By-the-way, terrific Irish author-Maeve Binchy, I've read almost all her books just in the past few months. Completely addicting. I can give you my top picks if you're interested! Happy St Patrick's Day tommorrow.
So fun! I also have a green lover here. But I don't have as many fun traditions. Every year I have good intentions of starting some, but then I fizz out. The past two years I've had a fairly new baby and this year I'm pregnant- those are my excuses. Valid, right? Maybe next year. All we really do is have green breakfast (usually pancakes, but eggs this year- no ham) and dye the milk green and wear green. You may have motivated me to do sugar cookies this year. . . it's only 8:30am, so we'll see how I feel about that in a few hours. Someday I'll be as fun as you!
We totally had green milk and green eggs today!! My kids loved it. They both were dressed in green from head to toe. For Spencer that still meant looking pretty normal. We had to dig around to find enough green to cover Cayden's body. He wore his green dinosaur long johns under a pair of forest green athletic shorts topped with a green soccer shirt with all the hems coming out and fraying. And yep, I even let him go to school looking like that!
Nice to see the tradition carries on . . . but with greater flair, for sure! --Mom
That picture of Sage was undoubtedly her taking charge of the shark game ("I'll lead the way!"). It's a good thing your sugar cookies are so tasty. Otherwise it would be a lot more of a problem that you mixed in a year's supply of flour (and with all the great things you bake, that must be a lot of flour).
I remember that heart cookie with the 1/2 inch of sprinkles! Only Sage could manage to decorate a cookie with more sprinkles than frosting!
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