Wearing O' the Green

We started celebrating St. Patrick's Day early with our usual corned beef dinner and soda bread, adding colcannon to the list (we've had the recipe a long time but had never made it). Sis and Bud practically ate their weights in boiled dinner and then ate a chunk of their little loaves of soda bread too!

We also played a Lego shear-the-sheep game--sheep being oh-so-Irish--and then read some Irish tales before bed, including Tomie de Paolo's version of Fin M'Coul. Mama knew the story from childhood, when she was Oonagh in her third-grade play. I did my best to give my reading a bit o' a lilt.

But, then, despite all the trappings, I'm not actually Irish.