Jill: I love holidays...even little ones!
We won't do much here...wear green...try to pinch someone! I'm considering making some sugar cookies with maybe some green icing. That's all.
Back in Texas, though, St. Pattys was a big deal for us. My husband is from Shamrock, so we'd spend the weekend there, with his parents.
Our children were always entered in the Beauty Pageant. Xavier won first place in his age group one year, and Orian won "Best Smile" (I really think he shoulda got first place, because he was an ADORABLE baby, but there are a lot of small town politics involved in the judging and his brother had just won the previous year...so). Because of the Pageant our St.Patty's celebrations began early with picking out cute outfits for the boys, which was really fun.
The year after Xavier won, we got to attend a nice banquet for the previous years' winners, he got to present the award for his age group, and if I remember right, he also got to ride on a float in the parade.
We also took the kids to the carnival to ride rides, pet animals, eat carnival food, and buy completely useless carnival gifts (like a blow up alien, haha). So fun!
And then there was the parade. Lots of cool cars and floats and pretty girls, and everyone throws candy into the crowd for the kids to catch.
I miss it!
