Must be St. Patrick’s Day!

The green food coloring is out in full force.

Leche verde!

Green Oatmeal & Bananas

(Although it could almost pass as guacamole!)

Holden and I shared the oatmeal while I drank this:

Irish coffee (without the Irish-ness!)

Oh, and I had a moment of weakness last Friday and went thru the McDonald’s drive-thru on the way to Elliott’s dance class for one of these:

{Photo: McDonald’s}

….and, UM, they were not selling them anymore! What? It was only March 12th! How are you NOT going to sell a Shamrock shake AT LEAST until March 17th? How ridiculous is that?

But, I did a little research and, according to livestrong.com, there are 550 calories in a medium Shamrock shake. So, I guess it was a blessing in disguise.

10 years ago today I was in Dublin celebrating with many pints of warm Carlsberg! And just for the record, they do not wear green over there on St. Patty’s Day. I told them that if you don’t wear green that you’ll get pinched….they thought that was ridiculous and had never heard such a thing! So there you have it, if you’re even in Ireland on March 17th, no need to pack any green articles of clothing.

I will dig through my box of old photos today and see if I can’t find a pic from 10 years ago! WOW!

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya!