Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone! I love St. Patrick's Day and anything Irish for that matter. I'm probable 1/64 Irish or something. So this is my day. I don't know why but I love it so I like to go all out. This morning I made Addy a trail of coins that led to some Lucky Charms for breakfast and at the bottom of the stairs I hung streamers so she could walk through a rainbow to find her treasure. It was fun and she loved it. Then the cousins came over and we had a green lunch.

Addy collecting her coins

The lucky charms

The rainbow door

Our holiday attire

Anyways like I said I love anything Irish so here is one of my favorite Irish blessings. May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand. Happy St.Patrick's Day to all of you Irish folk or wannabes like me!

My accident at the park

I wanted to share this story because it is funny even though most of you have already heard it. On Tuesday I took my kids and my niece and nephew to the park which is, I have to say brave of me, because I tend to get a little overwhelmed so I was a kind of nervous. Everything went well though they all played nice. We went on the swings and down the slides and even fed the ducks. Nobody attempted to run away, and there were no fits and most importantly there were no injuries, well almost. Ellie decided she wanted to go down the big slide so she started up the stairs and I thought, she is doing good. she was just crawling and was heading right to the slide. Then I realized she had to crawl past a point with two drop offs and I couldn't be on both sides at once and I got nervous and then she started going up the last set of stairs and she decided to stop right there and sit down and that made me really nervous. I decided I needed to get up there and save her life so I took off running and made it about half way up the stairs and then splat I am on the ground with my elbow skinned and my hip and pride bruised. It was quite embarrassing and to make matter worse I was carrying Kellsie in a pack, so I am sure I looked pretty silly. Ellie meanwhile sat patiently on the stairs and waited for me so we could all go down the slide together. So that is my story, all and all it was a good day at the park. I suppose if anyone had to get hurt I am glad it was me.

Let's try this again

So after creating a blog over 2 years ago and then never doing anything with it I have decided to try it again. After my Dad's death 2 weeks ago I have just had a strong desire to stay in better contact with my loved ones. Life goes by way too fast and I don't want to miss out on what is happening with the people I love and I thought updating my blog would be one way to do it. Sorry I am not that great at this kind of stuff so if anyone is reading this you will just have to keeping checking back until I get my blog all figured out and can make it cute and interesting.