Happy Birthday to Us!

It was such a nice surprise to have our AZ family in town during Nat’s spring break. Since she and Mom are the March birthdays in the family, we decided to celebrate together. Nothing fancy but always great to be together. We had a delicious meal prepared by Uncle Mike and Aunt Charlotte and had two different kinds of cake to sample. We took turns opening our gifts and had a little more time to visit before calling it an evening. It was plain, simple and the best - family enjoying one another and getting our fill until the next time we can be together.


Celebrating the actual day was done at Disneyland. With the “what will you celebrate” promotion, I had a day on Disney to enjoy. Since we are passholders, I didn’t need to get in free so I collected my gift card (equivalent to price of admission) and had fun. We had perfect weather, took beautiful pictures and I got a brand new sweatshirt, photos and an antenna topper out of the deal. Not bad. In fact......great!

The Eating of the Green

Unless fun days like St. Patrick’s Day fall on a Saturday or Sunday, it’s really hard to go all out - or even a little out. After teaching all day (and in elementary school already being up to the eyeballs in all things green) coming home with grubby kids and trying to be festive is a challenge. We managed to pull off some greenness though and it was fun.

Since March marks Dr. Seuss’ birthday, Anna had been Sam-I-Am-ing all over the place for a couple of weeks so we put it to good use. Breakfast for dinner is always a fave so we gave the meal a dosing of verdigris. Green eggs (no ham - gross) green pancakes and green milk rounded out by honeydew and green apples. We did NOT try to make the sausage green. It had green on the package - good enough. Mom also set the table with shamrock cups, pots filled with gold and little shamrocks oragami-d from dollar bills (unwittingly creating a possible precedent establishing St. Pat’s as a money giving holiday). Oh well.

As the girls get older, we’ll start bringing a little more to the table, so to speak, in terms of Irish fact, legend and lore. We’ve got leprechauns, tricky wishes, gold and banshees pretty well down and introduced pookahs (thank you Darby O’Gill and Harvey) so we’re off to a good start. We have to get a few steps ahead first.

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