Patty's Day Fun

Being Irish and all, St. Patrick's Day is important to me. I like to wear my green hair/head pieces and Kiss Me I'm Irish buttons and shirts or shamrock socks! For many years it was a celebration with my parents (while Lennon is the name of this generation of family, my great grandfather held the last name Ryan and even my biological father's last name is Meehan-Irish Spanish:)) where we were served Cornbeef and Cabbage, both of which I hate!

This year, I got to do it my way, green tablecloth and cups, clover plates and napkins, Irish Beef Stew (turned out really yummy), Herbed Irish Soda Bread, some kind of chocolate tapioca dessert, cupcakes with green frosting and decorated with Irish pictures (and one alien courtesy of Danny), and lastly, a big pitcher of 7-up mixed with pomegranate seltzer, colored green. Of course I only invited a couple of neighbors so we're going to be eating cupcakes until we're green in the face! But it turned out to be a lovely evening with celtic music playing in the background. My favorite is Loreena McKennitt. I especially love the way she sings "The Lady of Shalott".

One of our neighbors invited us to her house for Easter which is nice because I hadn't even really thought about what we were going to do later on in the day. We feel blessed.