Cead mile failte! That's Irish for a hundred thousand welcomes. Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone. What a bunch of mischievous leprechauns I have. As you can see, we know how to celebrate at our house. Being Irish on both sides of the family, we break out the corned beef, cabbage, and soda bread tonight. There's also the tradition of telling a good story at the table after dinner. Huzzah!
I took these pictures a few years ago, and all the kids are much bigger now, yet they still wear the hats. They wore them out the door as they ran to the bus this morning. (At their age, I would not have been caught dead in those things at school.)
Do you have fun plans for this holiday, dear readers? Ever been pinched for not wearing green on March 17th? Any raucous St. Paddy's tales to tell? Visited the Emerald Isle lately? Are you feeling lucky with your WIP?Here's my Irish prayer for writers. . .
May your keyboard rise to meet your fingers without a need to delete,
May computer viruses, and rejections, never knock you on your seat,
May your muse be good and sober when you're making plot decisions,
And may sunshine flood through your window, illuminating those revisions!
(I will avoid poetry composition from now on, I swear.)
Happy Writing All!
I have an Irish heritage as well. My maiden name is Connell. I love your Irish prayer.
ReplyDeleteVery cute pictures!!! I tried to make soda bread once and it came out like a burnt mountain of dried flour! Oh well. I'm not Irish, so it must have to do with that.
ReplyDeleteOh my Dear St. Patrick, what an AWESOME poem! I was looking for one to put on my blog but never would have made up my own. That is FANTASTIC! I'm going to copy it and hang it over my computer. Happy St. Patty's Day -- from the Gallagher faerie.
ReplyDeleteI want to come to your house for St. Patty's! Sounds like lots of fun! I love that little poem, you are so talented.
ReplyDeleteRight now I am feeling lucky with my WIP, surprisingly! Happy writing to you too :)
My mom used to have a fit if we tried to wear green on St Patrick's Day! My folks were both born in Scotland. I used to sneak over to a friend's before school and paint my fingernails green to avoid those pinches :)
ReplyDeleteGreat poem. Happy St. Patrick's Day!
ReplyDeleteHappy St Patrick's Day! London had a big celebration last weekend, but the Irish pub across the street from me appears to be doing a brisk trade if all the pint glasses on the pavement out front are any indication!
ReplyDeleteLoved the poem & the pics. Happy St. Patrick's Day!!
ReplyDeleteWow, there's a whole latte fun going on over at your place, and I love your writers' poem! Happy St. Patrick's Day to you and yours :)
ReplyDeleteWhat great hats! No Irish here, but we're all wearing green today. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures!! St. Patty's Day makes me want to be Irish. Maybe I can be an honorary Irishwoman ;)
ReplyDeleteI love that little poem, you are so talented.
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Hey, you write great poetry. HAve a great meal --sounds good:)
ReplyDeleteLooks like you guys are having a lot of fun. Have a great dinner.
ReplyDeleteIn honor of St. Patrick's Day, my post is green, I'm wearing green polish and a green coat. Tonight, I'm going to see the Celtics play the Knicks at the Boston Garden as an early birthday present. I've been trying to buy a green Celtics shirt for the occasion, but the ones they make for women are awful.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! And may your muse keep inspiring your writing and popping up on your posts.
Your kids are adorable! I'm not Irish, but my husband's family is. We didn't wear any green today, though.
ReplyDeleteLove the poem! :)
Woohoo! Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'm Irish, too. (And English and Welsh and German). I definitely wore green because when you teach little ones you have to be in the holiday spirit! :) Lots of fun leprechaun stories and projects today.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't do a special meal because, being that my hubby is the real cook around here and he's 100% Italian, Irish fare is not really his specialty, lol. I'm not sure the girls would even eat it. And since it was sunny and 70 degrees today instead of the 40-degree tree-splitting, hailing, flooding hurricane we had over the weekend, we decided to just grab some McDonald's and go to the playground for a picnic. ;)
We will make Irish potatoes sometime this week... of course, the cream cheesy, coconutty, cinammonny kind! Mmmm... :)
Your poem is adorable! Love it! Such cute pics of your kiddies, even if they're bigger now. :)
I love your prayer! My revisions need all the help they can get...
ReplyDeleteI made awesome corned beef (with marmalade on top) thanks to Storyqueen's recipe, and I did the Irish blogfest today, so I feel I met my Irish quota.
That is just too, too cute. Three cheers for your Irish Prayer.
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Cute poem/wish. Back at-cha! I'm feeling lucky to be a mom.
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