Happy St. Patrick's Day

We had a great St. Patrick's Day this past Thursday. It started off nice and early. Julia had woken up before the alarms went off, busted into our room, and tried to give Rebecca and I pinches. Luckily I wore my green pajama shirt so I was safe, but Rebecca didn't have any green on so she got a sore awakening. Julia proceeded to run around the house and got Christian with pinches when he was changing. Unfortunately, he took off all of his green from his pajamas before putting something green on for his school clothes. In that half second while he was just in his underwear Julia got him. Maybe he will be better prepared next year. Then she ran upstairs and woke up Agnes and Elliott and got some pinches in on them. They didn't know what was going on, so there were a few tears shed.

After we got all of the pinching out and everyone had their green on we had time for a St. Patrick's Day breakfast before heading off to school. Breakfast included Scotch Eggs, green milk, and green butter on toast. Although Scotch Eggs kept on showing up when we were searching for Irish food ideas, it sounds like they don't have an Irish history. You would think they might have a Scottish history from the name, but I guess they didn't originate in Scotland either. Based on a number of sources online I guess a department store in London claims to have invented them in the 1700s. But most of the sources online say that they actually come from an Indian or African dish. Wherever they come from, it may be a new St. Patrick's Day breakfast tradition for our family.

Julia, Ethan, and Christian did a lot of fun activities for St. Patrick's Day at school. For dinner we decided to break with our corned beef and cabbage tradition since the kids only ever complain about that. Instead we had reuben sandwiches and french fries. Rebecca had made a bunch of fancy peppermint chocolate popcorn for dessert and in our black pot she made it look like a post of gold. Julia and Christian grabbed it and hid it right before dinner and left a few notes from Goldie the Leprechaun giving clues where it was at. Rebecca and I sometimes do scavenger hunts for the kids, but we hadn't thought of it for the 'pot of gold' so it was neat to see those two take that fun tradition on.

Later that night we went to a 'Walk with Christ' event that was being put on by one of the stakes in Pocatello. One of the church buildings was set up where we walked through it and saw actors portraying different scenes from the life of Christ. It was really well done and some of the acting was excellent. It was enjoyable and spiritual, but when we got back to the car we found out that it took 2 full hours to go through! We rushed to home and put the kids to bed after that.