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| You can't even tell, but Luke and two little girls painted coffee filter four-leaf clovers at our house one morning before St. Patrick's Day. |
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| I tried to have the kids make shamrock prints using green paint and marshmallows, but it didn't turn out exactly the way it looked on Pinterest... |
We had our traditional St. Patrick's Day FHE, which ended in the customary
scavenger hunt for a "gold" treat. I made the clues harder for the big kids this
time, so it was even more fun, with lots of running upstairs, downstairs, back upstairs, etc.
The last clue the kids were using to be able to find the pot of gold was
"when Eliza can't find her Sunday shoes," because just the weekend before we found
her Sunday shoes, which had been MIA for weeks, under her bed.
The morning of St. Patrick's Day the kids were excited to get LUCKY CHARMS for breakfast. In the afternoon, we cashed in on free report card doughnuts at Krispy Kreme after school on March 17th, and it was extra fun that the doughnuts were green. They still tasted great!
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| Once again, Jack made a leprechaun trap. Once again, the leprechaun barely escaped. |
I didn't make the four-leaf clover waffles we usually have at dinner time because I had a concert that night, but I encouraged Ben to serve a big green salad for dinner in honor of the special day. He found something else instead.
Jack's Pack Meeting the week after March 17th had a St. Patrick's Day theme. The first game, though, "is not a traditional Irish game," according to the big leprechaun in charge.
Jack was chosen to go head-to-head with another boy, using only his face to get five
gold coins off of the bottom of a pie pan filled with whipped cream.
Jack's initial tactic of licking the whipped cream away
from the gold coins, while being delicious, slowed him down considerably.
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| Yummiest loss ever. |
Ah, the Luck of the Irish, to live at your house on St Patrick's Day!
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