Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!
In honor of the holiday, I felt it was only appropriate to pick a couple Irish tunes. Luckily for you and me, Bing Crosby sang a few in some of his films.
First, from his 1944 film “Going My Way” …
… Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral
Next, one of my favorites from the 1949 film “Top O’ The Morning”….
… the beautiful “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”…
Wishing you a Happy St. Patrick’s Day! May you find your pot of gold at the end of your rainbow!
I saw many folks posting photos on social media yesterday for St. Patrick’s Day with shirts saying “Let the Shenanigans Begin!” Why is it that we only seem to hear this word around March 17th? It’s a great word that can be used in so many situations outside of an Irish “holiday.” I encourage you to use it at some point in the next two weeks!
Anyway, rather than going out and whooping it up with green beer and dancing a jig, I stayed home. I posted on my Facebook:
Today I will be doing the Wearin’ O’ the green, watching the Silence O’ the Lambs, and doing the Cuttin’ O’ the cheese …. (A line I used on our morning show more than once!)
I also found a hilarious filter to make me look like a Leprechaun
I got the kids dressed in their green shirts and tried to get some of them both smiling. I ended up having to get creative. I took two pictures and combined them so that they could both be smiling in it! LOL
We spent the morning with my long time friend Margaret.
She came with loads of stuff for the kids, as always! She brought them a very cool reusable sticker book. The stickers can be moved around and used again. They loved it! She also brought them some coloring books and a pillow for each of them.
You can bet your next paycheck that they had to be sure they slept on them last night!
Andrew has been potty training and yesterday, he went #2 on the toilet! It was a pretty big deal for sure! We promised that if he did that we would go to the store and he could pick out a toy. He made his Pa proud when he picked out a new took box! LOL
We had fun without any green beer!!
Tomorrow is my anniversary. More on that later ….
It has been a few weeks since I’ve done one of these. I’m not sure why it has been so long. Anyway, with this being a holiday, I found one that I wanted to re-share.
Today, I was going through Facebook Memories and I saw this photo from last year:
We snapped this on Andrew’s first St. Patrick’s Day. It’s really amazing to see how much these two have grown. They are almost the same weight and size now!
There really isn’t much more to say about the picture. It is one of my favorites of the two of them.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
For the first time in 2 years, the Chicago River was dyed green yesterday.
The St. Patrick’s Day tradition had been put on hiatus because of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The dye will stay in the water for about 48 hours and then it will change back to normal.
I posted my usual stupid St. Patrick’s Day Puns on social Media:
I also posted my yearly reminder that while “every one is Irish” on March 17th, St. Patrick wasn’t!
As I scrolled Facebook yesterday, it was full of plenty of people decked out in their best green outfits. Many people indulged on green beer, corned beef and cabbage, potatoes, and Irish stews in bars and restaurants beginning early in the morning.
I scrolled upon a post by a pastor friend of mine, and I felt that it was certainly worth sharing:
“Saint Patrick was a passionate evangelist who believed in the potential of young people to change the world. Instead of drinking green beer in his honor why not share the gospel with a young person today? He’d be way happier with that “
I think he would! I found a great quote from St. Patrick:
I didn’t partake in any green spirits yesterday. I didn’t even wear any green!
They always talk about the “Luck of the Irish.” Well, I am not Irish, but I consider myself one lucky man. I am married to the most beautiful woman on the planet and we will celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary on Saturday.
I have been blessed with four amazing kids. My two oldest boys from my previous marriage and my daughter and baby boy with my wife. Who says you have to be Irish to be lucky?
Yes, I am one lucky Italian!
Oh, yeah, I guess I did partake in some St. Patrick’s Day shenanigans at work …
We do sleep studies on a lot of pediatric patients. This week, one kid drew pictures for us and we put them up on the board in the tech room. Another kid made a thank you card for us. I grabbed a piece of paper and some crayons and I drew a picture of one of my coworkers and said, “You had a kid in the room I was in last night, right?” I told her I “found” a picture that her patient must have drawn of her and that it looked just like her!
I’m sorry, every time I look at this, the lips make me think of the Joker from Batman!
I understand this is probably only funny to me … so I apologize. I hope you had a nice St. Patrick’s Day ….
Various Ramblings of a Nostalgic Italian 