But times have changed. Or maybe parenthood is just making me loose my mind. Because this year I decided to go all-out-green for the big day. Not only did every one dress in green, but we ate green meals too. All. Day. Long.
On the menu for our monochromatic salute to the emerald isle?
Breakfast: Lucky Charms cereal.
Not green, I know. But when little leprechauns sneak down before the kids are up and put green food coloring in the cereal bowls so that the milk turns green when stirred? Well, according to our kiddos, that’s magic!
Snack: Key lime pie yogurt and granny smith apple slices
Which I don’t have a picture of. You’ll just have to use your imaginations.
The kids were freaked out by the green tortillas. But apparently a good freaked out, as there were few leftovers.
When I thought up this whole crazy scheme, I had it in my head that they sold spinach pasta. Well, apparently, they don’t. Or maybe they’ve just replaced it all with whole wheat pasta. Not that I’m complaining since that’s what I’d normally buy. But when green is the color you’re after, a dearth of spinach pasta is quite the tragedy. In the throws of my holiday mania, I ended up buying 4 pounds of tri-colored bowtie pasta and then laboriously picked out all the spinach ones for our all-green dinner. {We’re still trying to finish off the leftover bi-colored noodles}
The kids thought these were so cool and were convinced that leprechauns had snuck into our house overnight and baked these just for us. Their iron-clad evidence for this theory was the fact that we didn’t have a mini-muffin tin the day before. That and they saw leprechaun footprints on the counter.
What can I say? Holidays are just more fun with kids around.
1 comment:
Bet you miss Wegmans during those crazed spinach pasta moments! What a great mamma you are!
~ lil sis
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