Wearing O' The Green

For St. Patrick’s Day I dressed the girls in green and took them to the party store to get supplies for an upcoming birthday party.  They had the St. Patrick’s Day stuff already marked 50% off, so I got them hats, fun straws and party plates to celebrate the day.  At lunch they had green milk and white chocolate pudding dyed with green food coloring.  Eva was fascinated by all novelty and kept coming back to ask me, “What day is it? Oh yeah, St. Paddy’s Day!” 

 

When I was in YWAM, my friends and I were in love with all things Scottish, Irish and Celtic, and would go all-out on the “Wearin’ of the Green”.   Eva, Kate and I were still too young for green Guinness, but we’d dye all our food green, dance to celtic music, and otherwise have a blast making fools of ourselves.  One year I gave Kate a giant hat that looked like a St. Patrick’s Day version of “The Cat in the Hat”, and she’s made a tradition of wearing it every year for 15 years now (except this year, when it was temporarily lost in the move).   Though we’ve all gone our separate ways, I still send them cards every March 17^th.