Saint Patrick's Day 2023

We didn't do much for Saint Patrick's day, but we did learn about him and Ireland in history that day. 

I also tried to make our meals that day fun and festive. 

I left out a little cauldron full of treasure in the morning.

For breakfast I made the green waffles for the kids...

For lunch I made green egg salad and put the sandwiches out with green Pringles and applesauce.

And for dinner I made roast, rolls, and put out some Ginger ale since it has a green label. 

 

More March....

Maddy played in the snow a lot, because we have had a lot of snow!

She made a snowman of Roboppi from You-gi-oh!

This is the character... she did such a good job.

We had apple pie and banana cream pie for pi day.

And... finally, I finished the middle grade mystery book I have been writing forever. I made it to use as a course for Abi, so it has places for her to stop and solve codes along with the characters before the answers are revealed. 

 

A little bit of March so far...

 

All year long I look forward to participating in Middle Grade March. This is a pile of possibilities for the month. I am hoping to read more middle grade than just what is pictured, but these were the "for sure" books. So far, I have finished 5 of these 6. I also splurged this year and bought some MGM mercy. I have wanted a mug with books on it for awhile, so that just made sense. And I thought if I was picking up a mug, I may as well get a bookmark I could use all month long as well. 

Doug's mom gifted us those two yellow chairs. The only place I could think to put them is in our master bedroom/ library, and then they kind of looked out of place with the colors in our bedding. I decided to update. I got some new gold sheets, some new gold throw pillows, put away the black and white checkered ones, got out the gray blanket Doug's work gave him for Christmas, bought some matching gray pillows for the gold chairs, and voila! Our bedroom has an entirely new look. It actually matches a lot of my bookish decor (that you can't see in this picture) a lot better, so I am really happy with the results. 

For school the girls had to give a speech using a life experience. They both chose to also make a slide presentation to go with it. 

They did a great job.