I think one of the best things you can do as a mom is to create fun quirky traditions for your family. The kind your kids will roll their eyes at but secretly miss when they're all grown up and have their own families. Soooo, I have decided to make St. Patrick's Day our Holiday. I get the strangest looks when I tell people that St. Patrick's Day is considered to be a special day to my family. We spend all of the other Holidays with extended family: grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles and cousins....while it's fun it's also chaotic to say the least. Both sides of the family come from Ireland/Scotland (of course there is a myriad of other ethnicity's, that's how it goes when your ancestors were some of the first to come to this Country..but I feel somehow more connected to the Irish side...perhaps it's my big green Irish eyes). I love history and how it connects with my ancestry (I'm always so shocked when I hear there are people who don't share my enthusiasm for history). So you take my love for my genealogy, my love of rich history, and my desire to have fun family traditions and what do you get?? St. Patrick's Day! This year I tried out a few new recipes: Colcannon, meat and potato pies, soda bread, and a few other things that have no connection to Ireland whatsoever...they were just green. I spent most of the day cooking and, sadly, I don't think I'll be able to use these recipes next year thanks to my hubbies incredibly bland taste buds and the fact that he won't eat anything that even hints that it might be from the vegetable portion of the pyramid. I'll post pictures later, I'm not quite sure how to do it on this computer.
