Happy St. Patrick's Day

My nieces (and, in the background, my sisters), celebrating St. Patrick's Day in Virginia. This is a screencap from the local news, on which they were featured (and during which my sister's "festive" hat was ridiculed by the anchor, to our great amusement).

I'm glad they were on the ball. I completely forgot about St. Patrick's Day and dropped both my boys off at school dressed in not so much as a single stripe of green, surrounded by all their green-clad friends. I drew shamrocks on their arms so they wouldn't feel left out (and got chastised by one of Josh's 5-year-old classmates for using the dry erase marker). I felt like a bad mom, but you can't win them all. We did have a green dinner though (pesto pasta, Lucas' favorite meal).