St. Patrick's Day

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!! 

What are our plans today you ask? What grand Pinterest projects have inspired us today on this special holiday? 
 
Nada. 
 
Nothing. 
 
My children are too young to know much about St Patrick's Day other than the fact their classroom is green. I could have been a great mom and made green treats, played fun games, pretended a leprechaun came into our house, but no. Instead our day is just like any other day: wrestling boys, messes, sword fighting, dirty diapers, and mischievous children. 
 
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Will I make a big deal of this holiday in the future? I don't know. I have nothing against it and it could be a lot of fun. However, I've got to keep my children's expectations low. If I started to do extravagant leprechaun traps now at 3 months, 2 years, and 4 years old... what in the world would be expected in five years! They'd probably expect a real leprechaun! 
 
Or maybe I know my trap would look like a mangled mess and my kids would stare at me in disappointment. My Pinterest projects have definitely failed.. a few times. For instance, on Liam's second birthday I made a jello aquarium. It was going to look beautiful. It was going to be a fish bowl filled with light blue jello and have Swedish fish floating around. Instead it was dark blue jello with dead looking, sweedish fish floating on top. Oops. Luckily, Liam only noticed that their was candy in it and didn't mind that it looked terrifying. 
 
For now, I'm going to keep these little holidays simple. I figure I have another year maybe two, and then my kids will be demanding all sorts of extravagent holiday projects and activities. Who knows, maybe by then I will become a little more crafty and be able to do fun things for them!
 

What about you. Do you go all out on St. Patrick's day? If so what do you do? 

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