st. patty’s day ’19

oh st. patrick’s day. i neither love nor hate it. i just never really celebrated it but since having kids, it gives me a great excuse to get festive!

we started our morning with green lucky charm pancakes, whipped cream, bacon, and green milk {hc cooked us mexican inspired breakfast}. the girls loved it! they ate more whipped cream and marshmallows than anything else! we’re so lucky hc loves to cook and do special things like this for the girls and us!

before breakfast commenced, hc prepped all the ingredients for our corned beef and cabbage meal. he threw it all into the slow cooker and we waited! i love this meal…or really i loooooooove cabbage! yes, it’s so good! it could eat cabbage allll the time!

after breakfast, cleaning up, and getting the girl all jazzed up, we dropped them off at my sister’s place and hc and i took off for a day date! he had scheduled a couple’s massage for us at a place in naperville. i’m always anxious about trying new places in the ‘burbs cause it’s honestly hit or miss and i find it’s mostly miss. eep!

well, this place was nice! i really enjoyed it. it was new, clean, and everyone was friendly and kind. that’s always a plus cause nowadays i feel like you walk into a business and no one cares. wtf?? anyhoo, the receptionist was so friendly, my masseuse bernice was very helpful, nice, and really spent her time listening to me and suggested ways to help me improve my posture so my back doesn’t get so tight and cramped up! the experience was so good! as it should be! oh i felt like butter afterwards!

in honor of st. patty’s day, olive and i also made rainbow cupcakes! i have to tell you, she did such a great job!! she really did! she put the ingredients into the bowl, used the mixer to smooth out the batter, separated the cupcake liners into the pan, mixed the food coloring into the separated batter, spooned each color into the liners, and decorated each frosted cupcake with gold flakes, green sprinkles, gold coins, lucky charms, and rainbows!! she did good!

i was so proud of her! she has become such an amazing helper around the house. she loves to clean, put away her toys, help cook/bake, and change ellie’s diaper to name a few things she’s been keen on.

later that evening, hc put together the most delicious dinner of corned beef and cabbage. it was sooooooo good! the carrots, potatoes, cabbage, and beef were perfect! plus, i must have it on record that this was the first time the girls ate EVERYTHING. yes, everything. up until a month ago, getting olive to eat anything green was almost impossible. but on this night, she ate her carrots, cabbage, potatoes, and beef! i was so impressed! ellie on the other hand is much more open to eating different things but it based on her mood. one day she will eat it and the next she will not {most of the time she screams “no!!” when we try to feed her but when i tell her to eat it, sternly, she opens up her mouth and realizes she likes it!} but at least she eats her greens from time to time!

well, that was our st. patrick’s day in a nutshell. so much going on but it was truly a wonderful day! we reflected and felt so content about our day of celebration! life is good!