Attention all Irish and Irish-Posers of Blogworld: The Pope moved the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day to March 15th (last Saturday) because this year it falls on the Monday of Holy Week. Not sure anyone was really paying attention…or reading the Pope’s blog. Imagine on March 17th saying to those beer swelling hooligans and Irish whiskey rowdies in Boston, “Hey, Micks…you’ve got the wrong day.”
Paddy PaulA likes to say to me: “The next best thing to being Irish is marrying Irish.” I admit, St. Pat’s Day is the one day of the year I wish I was an Irish lass with red-hair and freckles. But other than St. Pat’s Day…I am fine being the English/Welcher that I am. See…I don’t like a lot of Irish stuff …other than green beer and potatoes. Not really a fan of Irish songs and jigs. Let’s face it Irish clog dancing is kinda goofy. And Irish food isn’t my taste…corned beef and cabbage …nasty combo.
But on St. Patrick’s Day, I am right there with the rest of the Irish-posers…wearing “the green” and my blinking “Kiss Me I’m Irish” button. Yep, right there with the rest of them singing “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”, enjoying a green beer, and passing a blarney stone, or is that kissing a blarney stone.
On St. Patrick’s Day when the kids were little and would believe just about anything we told them…(back when we could really mess with their minds)…the leprechaun would visit our house in the wee morning when they were sleeping and turn everything green. (Well, turn everything green that we could add green food coloring to.) They would find green milk for their cereal, green bottled water, green mashed potatoes, and the best yet…a kid’s dream…green water in the toilets. It was kinda like Christmas morning…they would run from one bathroom to the other…checking out the toilets to see if the leprechaun had left them his calling card. Lucky for them…a little green was all they found.
So “Top of the morning to you”… “May love and laughter light your days”…. “May the road rise up to meet you”…and whatever else the Irish people say. Have a Happy St. Patrick’s Day…on March 17th…the day when everybody is Irish.
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