Tuesday - March 17th
We decided to celebrate St. Patrick's Day different this year. We usually don't do anything, except wear green so we won't get pinched. This year, we decided that we wanted to do more. So, Brinley and I looked online for some ideas on how to celebrate and we chose our favorites.
Here are our new St. Patrick's Day traditions:
-The day before, we decorate rocks to look like gold, then leave them on the table.
-The Leprechaun visits us while we sleep. He brings candy and something green for us to wear. He sticks them in our shoes and hides them. He also hides the gold that we made. In the morning, the kids get to find their shoes and the gold.
-We eat a green breakfast - This year we had Green Rice Krispie Treats and Green Milk.
-I make a St. Patrick's Day cake - The rule on St.Patrick's Day is that you don't have to wait for a certain time to eat the cake. Whenever you feel like eating cake, you eat cake.
Yesterday, Brinley and her friend Teirnynn, went out and collected some rocks for us to decorate. Brinley and Parker painted some gold, but we really liked the way the glitter looked, so we did most of them that way. We painted the glue on then dipped it in the glitter.
Parker was watching TV with Roger, but after I took this picture, he came and joined in on the decorating.
The kids were so excited in the morning. I love the mornings when they have something to look forward to because it is so easy to get them out of bed.
Here they are wearing their new shirts and holding their St. Patrick's Day candy. It was a fun morning.
Brinley loved her green milk. I put froot loops on their straws. I was supposed to put more on so it would represent a rainbow, but it was hard just to get those ones on. The kids still thought it was cool.
Here's Parker posing with the St. Patrick's Day cake.
I had a lot of cake mix, so I experimented and tried these whoopie pies. I colored the cake mix green. They weren't that yummy. I probably won't do that again.
Roger got the tires rotated on the car and after that, the car was rubbing against the back tire. Roger, came out to pull it away from the tire so it would stop rubbing. I was outside taking pictures of the kids, so I decided to take a picture of roger also. He never poses normal for a picture. I like that about him. I think it's funny.
After school, the kids had fun riding bikes and blowing bubbles. I pulled out our big bubble wands and mixed up some green bubble solution. The neighbor kids, of course, came over and joined in the fun.
When we were done playing with the bubbles, the kids turned on the faucet outside, to wash their hands. We didn't have the hose hooked up to it yet and this was the first time we used it this year. while they were washing their hands, the neighbor came out yelling for them to turn it off. They quickly shut it off. He told them to leave it off because it was flooding their kitchen. The kids came in all scared and told Roger that the neighbor wanted to talk to him. They were scared and feeling really bad, like they had done something wrong. None of us could figure out how his kitchen would be getting flooded from that. Anyway, I told the kids not to worry, because they didn't do anything bad.
Roger went to the neighbor's and was surprised to see that their kitchen floor was covered in water. Then, Roger thought he better come and make sure it's not leaking on our side. He came back in to tell us what was going on, then he looked on the floor under the computer desk and realized that it was covered in water. We quickly unplugged the computer and everything that we had plugged in that corner and moved it to safety. That could have been really bad. We had a ton of wires and things plugged into a long extension cord on the floor in that corner. So, we quickly cleaned it all up, then Roger had to leave to work. Before he left, he called the town home managers and let them know that our kitchen was flooding also. The neighbor's kitchen was much worse than ours. Eventually someone came to fix things. They cut into the wall on the neighbor's side to fix it.
Here is a picture of it before I took the time to dry it up and clean it better. I ended up moving the computer to another wall in the kitchen. Everybody likes it where I moved it, so we will keep it here until we move.
We had a really fun day and we love our new St. Patrick's Day traditions.
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