Lucky Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! We had so much fun today, it's days like this that I love being a mom. My kids make stupid holidays like this one totally worth celebrating to the fullest extent possible. I love it!

Last year at Kennedy's preschool, Leprechauns visited their classroom while the kids weren't there and left footprints and treats, and she thought it was the coolest thing ever. I kind of felt like a loser mom for only doing magic green milk!

Well, lately we've been reading books about Leprechauns and how they cause mischief, so, along with magic green milk this year, Mommy talked some Leprechauns into visiting our house as well.

Now, I have to admit, late last night as I was making green snicker doodles (because the only store-bought St. Paddy's day treats at Albertsons were in the bakery, and looked disgusting) and cutting out Leprechaun footprints, I was really wondering if I was crazy.

But this morning when Kennedy woke up and saw the "mischief" and found the treats, you would have thought it was December 25th, judging from her excitement level. She was laughing and running around and waking everyone up. It was so cute, she was thrilled! She really makes everything so much more fun than it should be.

Here she is in her cute green outfit, with pink accents, natch...the leprechauns also left her some fun green accessories this morning.

Hudson loved magic green milk, can you tell? He is our own little leprechaun...except he only takes treats, never leaves them...

Here is some of the mischief...luckily, our leprechauns only caused mischief that was silly and not hard for mom to clean up (our couches are freakishly light...really no excuse for there to be so much popcorn under them...)

Hudson thought this was hilarious. It was like someone had done his day's chores for him! :) He actually cleaned the balls up before I could! I am kind of wondering if this was the best idea, though. I really have a feeling many future messes may be getting blamed on leprechauns...


I let Kennedy help plan the menu for our all green dinner, and she did a great job! We had chicken pesto, green beans, peas, salad and green punch. We also colored placemats and Leprechaun pictures for the table and used every green dish in the house. They loved it!

Now, for the luckiest part of our day: We found my wedding ring!

For those of you who don't know: I lost it in my friends' driveway on Christmas Eve. I really have been sick about it, I dreamed almost every night that I found it, and Dustin has been looking several times, even with a metal detector. I have refused to let myself really think that it was lost, hoping that when the snow was melted it would show up. And yay! it did today. What a miracle! And right when the silver was starting to wear off of my big, gaudy fakey (I hated not looking married :) . Nice to have the real deal! Words cannot express how I feel about having this ring back! Everytime I look at it, I remember the first time I saw it, and how I felt. I will never let it out of my sight again! Thanks so much for watching for it, Chad and Jessica!