Showing posts with label St. Patty's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Patty's Day. Show all posts

Sunday, March 17, 2013

LUCKY

We are so lucky cursed!!  We can’t seem to get rid of those pesky Leprechauns – even in a new house!!!  They made their annual visit of mischief while we slept, and as usual, left a mess everywhere!

They peed in the toilet again.  Of course they forgot to flush!

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They spilled the books out of the basket and left them scattered all over the place!  (It looks like they chose some of the best ones for reading, though.)

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This was reeeeally weird.  They lined up all the shoes around the front door!  Were they trying to trap us?  Or just having fun playing with all the big shoes?

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They were obviously trying to find good stuff in the kitchen, as they left cupboard doors open and drawers pulled out.

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And they tipped over chairs at the table.

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This year they were extra nice and left us a “pot” of gold!!

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I love this silly little tradition.  It gives me a giant smile to see the kids having fun with this, and to hear what they have to say about the mayhem.  My favorite this year was from Rachel (who has been counting down the days until “Leprechaun Day” all month): “How could such little people do such big people things???”

I got brave this year and tried corned beef and cabbage, along with red potatoes and carrots, in the crock pot for dinner.  (We also had lime jello with cottage cheese and mandarin oranges…an old favorite of everyone here.)  I was crossing my fingers that the corned beef wasn’t going to be a gigantic mistake.  It was absolutely delicious (aside from being more greasy/fatty than regular beef) and definitely a keeper.

And for dessert, we had Irish Mud Cups, of the non-minty variety.  Delicious, and very rich.  But also a keeper.

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I don’t know about luck, but we sure are blessed!!  We hope you had a blessed day as well!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Pesky Leprechauns!!

We invited the Leprechauns to come to our house on St. Patricks Day, and just look what they did! Those crazy little characters left a mess of our house - but everywhere they went, they left some "gold" behind. Maybe that will convince us to have them back again next year...


They pulled our piano bench out, turned it a weird way, and left the lid open!
They put a chair up on the table, and they left us a box of Lucky Charms for breakfast!
They turned our chair backwards and left it in the middle of the room!
They tied the drapes in a knot!


They got in a drawer, scattered lids around, and then just left the drawer open! And just look what they did to our toilet....

EWWWW!!! That's nasty!!(Josh wouldn't go near it - he wouldn't even flush it down!)


I'm not very happy about all this mischief, but the kids have begged me to let them come back next year. Afterall, they did bring us lots of "gold" AND a box of Lucky Charms to make up for all the mischief. Well, I'll just have to think about it!


For our dinner, we had Italian meatball subs, Irish style (we're not real big on the corned beef or pastrami - urp!), with green jello, celery, and carrots (gotta have some variation in color!). I couldn't resist the green hoagie buns at the store! (They're dyed green!! It wasn't a sneaky sale by the store to get rid of some moldy-oldies!)


And for dessert, we had Lucky Lime Pie, a very tasty, but very rich treat. (Unfortunately, I don't have a picture for it. But if you click here you can see the picture AND get the recipe.)