Well maybe it's because of my mom or maybe because I grew up in a drinking, party, college town, but I CELEBRATE Saint Patrick's Day! Why wouldn't you want to? You get to decorate your house with rainbows and clovers, eat green cookies in green milk, and when I was growing up the leprechauns would come and mess up our house and leave behind chocolate gold coins.
I remember waking up in the morning to find my room a mess! toys and blankets thrown all over the floor, the family room couch cushions were all thrown off and amidst all of this was a trail of coins leading to the kitchen table where that sneaky leprechaun had died our milk green! Mom would make sure we all had a green shirt and for the girls green hair-ties for school so we didn't get pinched! For dinner we would have an all green meal. Green jello, broccoli, noodles, apples, and of course green kool-aid!
This year being at college I couldn't just do nothing! I decorated our wall with shamrocks and rainbows, painted green nails, Wore a green shirt with gold earrings, dyed MY milk green, and even the toilet water! It was a monday so we had FHE (Family Home Evening) with our new group of kids. Two of the girls went to pick up something for the treat for after. They came back with a cookie mix and put green food coloring in. Then they kinda forgot about the cookies and it wasn't until we noticed smoke coming from the stove top did anyone remember the cookies. They were not exactly green but.....BLACK! Haha it made for a good laugh and a lingering smell for a couple of hours. 
I love it!
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