St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day this year was a lot of fun! I tried to do it a little more low key than I have the last few years (really trying to find my rhythm with the "smaller" holidays), and I think I did pretty good this year.

Normally, I would have gotten supplies (or a kit) to make a leprechaun trap, but when the Home Depot workshop this month was one, I figured that would be good enough. We have our gold coin decorations that we put around them to lure the little fella towards them and Cara made a silly "Free Gold" sign to put next to them.

Larry and I got things put together and then hid the scavenger hunt cards. I had a few sets from previous years I figured I'd mix and match, but then that ended up being more trouble (one of them was numbered so I had to use all or none of those and my other set was missing some so I just had to do the best with what we had. Definitely going to have to order/make some more for the next few years).

For the end, I just got them each one fun thing and some chocolate/gold coins and nerds rope (a rainbow item, I figured). So it wasn't as much, but it was fun still!

For the morning, I decided it would be fun to make rainbow pancakes. I even made sure to get food coloring early so we wouldn't be getting anything last minute and the stores would be out. Unfortunately, I got some pretty weak coloring, because while the pancakes looked colorful, once they were cooked, they were looked like normal pancakes. So that was a fail, but the kids still enjoyed eating them.

These were supposed to be yellow, green, and purple pancakes

After school we decided dinner should be beef stew with potatoes and carrots with potato rolls (a favorite of mine, for sure!) And then for dessert we made banana pudding and put skittles in it to be like the rainbow with gold at the end. I wasn't sure about mixing the skittles in the pudding, but it was honestly pretty good!

So overall, there were things that could've gone better, but it was still a fun day. It's a little harder when it's a school day, but the kids had a lot of fun. We made sure to have everyone wear their green (but I missed getting a picture, of course) and we talked a lot about why the day is a big day in our world, which I love making sure we cover so the kids understand the celebrations. 

Anyways, Happy St. Patrick's Day out there! Hope you had a bit of luck o' the Irish on your side!