St.Patricks Day

mommytotwo · Feb 5, 2010

Who here celebrates it? In what ways, and do you have any suggestions on things that we can do for this day?

Sapsorrow · Feb 5, 2010

We celebrate it, as I'm half Irish. We don't do anything that exciting: just wear green and go to the local Irish pub for a nice dinner. I might have a bit of Guinness, since I'm fond of it. This year we'll be on vacation, so I'm not sure what we'll do.

Annette · Feb 5, 2010

Well we don't get into the hype of it all like green beer etc etc but I do like to make corned beef and cabbage then (and usually a few times throughout the year). But I don't decorate or anything (my big decorating days are Halloween and Christmas pretty much).

Irishsnow · Feb 5, 2010

I celebrate St Patrick's Day.

As its our national holiday here in Ireland.

Maureen · Feb 5, 2010

I think I should make it my personal mission to make St David's Day (Wales) St George's Day (England) and St Andrew's Day (Scotland) as publicised as St Patrick - especially for those who don't like green!!!!

judesmama · Feb 5, 2010

I usually make some soda bread, corned beef or ham and cabbage, and colcannon.

Sapsorrow · Feb 5, 2010

Maureen said:
I think I should make it my personal mission to make St David's Day (Wales) St George's Day (England) and St Andrew's Day (Scotland) as publicised as St Patrick - especially for those who don't like green!!!!

Great idea! I'll celebrate all three right with you:

Feast of St. David is March 1st
Feast of St. George is April 23rd
Feast of St. Andrew is November 30th

So how shall we celebrate?

Solice · Feb 8, 2010

My husband birthday is March 17 so we celebrate him.
BUT March 17 2006 we celebrated in Dublin Irland!
That was much fun, and my husband now always put on his St.Patricks hat on his birthday. lol..

Sapsorrow · Feb 8, 2010

Oo! Just stopping by to add to my "how we celebrate St. Patrick's Day" story: our local Irish pub is going to have the local step dancing school doing a recital during their St. Patty's Day celebration! It's going to be a ball this year.

xmas365 · Feb 8, 2010

I am pretty much the only one who eats red meat, so more corned beef for me.
My wife doesn't eat it, and my boys are always hit and miss with it. But every year I make one for myself to celebrate my Irish heritage.

Bradmac · Feb 8, 2010

The only celebrating I really do for St. Patty's Day is, my band usually plays down on River St. in Savannah. That's always a blast!

Murphman · Feb 8, 2010

Many years ago, my in-law's would host a huge St. Paddy's day party on the closest Saturday to the holiday. They would invite everyone they knew and it was quite a sight seeing 50+ people cram into their small house for a few hours. Unfortunately I only participated in three of them before my MIL suddenly passed and the tradition went with it.

My wife has talked for over 10 years about re-starting it at our house. However, March is my busiest time of the year at work plus most of our friends have young kids (including us) so the thought of having two dozen of them running around our house sounds kind of hectic. Her parents waited until their kids were teens before starting so I think we will too.

JanaBanana · Feb 8, 2010

We dont celebrate this one...

mommytotwo · Feb 8, 2010

judesmama said:
I usually make some soda bread, corned beef or ham and cabbage, and colcannon.

That is colcannon?

Would you mind sharing your soda bread recipe.

mommytotwo · Feb 8, 2010

I make corned beef and cabbage along with potatoes, and carrots.

For St.Patricks Day breakfast, I make green pancakes for my daughter, and she wears green so that she doesn't get pinched at school.

made582 · Feb 9, 2010

I always make corned beef but I don't like cabbage so I don't make it.

trackrebel · Feb 9, 2010

I celebrate it....cos it´s my birthday....

....but I know my relatives over in States do kinda celebrate it....at least they are wearing green....don´t know if they got some irish heritage as well....but they do sell it....saw my 1 year old great-great-great cousin wearing a Kiss Me I´m Irish shirt....just looking cute

made582 · Feb 9, 2010

Wen said:
Excuse my ignorance, but what does it mean ' I make green pancakes for my daughter and she wears green so that she doesn't get pinched at school'.

Is green a type of protective colour to stop other children pinching her? Maybe if I wear green moskitos would no longer bit (pinch) me.

Here is what I found-

Pinching those not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day is an American tradition, having really nothing to do with Ireland or St. Patrick. It's thought that the pinching started in the early 1700s, about the time that awareness of St. Patrick's as a holiday came to the fore, too, in Boston, in the Massachusetts colony. They thought if you wore green, it made you invisible to the Leprechauns, which was good because they would pinch anyone they could see. So the pinching is to warn and remind you about the Leprechauns.

mommytotwo · Feb 9, 2010

Wen said:
Excuse my ignorance, but what does it mean ' I make green pancakes for my daughter and she wears green so that she doesn't get pinched at school'.

Is green a type of protective colour to stop other children pinching her? Maybe if I wear green moskitos would no longer bit (pinch) me.

made582 said:
Here is what I found-

Pinching those not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day is an American tradition, having really nothing to do with Ireland or St. Patrick. It's thought that the pinching started in the early 1700s, about the time that awareness of St. Patrick's as a holiday came to the fore, too, in Boston, in the Massachusetts colony. They thought if you wore green, it made you invisible to the Leprechauns, which was good because they would pinch anyone they could see. So the pinching is to warn and remind you about the Leprechauns.

Thank you made582. And as for the green pancakes, I just add a drop of food coloring into the pancake batter so that it turns brown. Just a fun thing that my daughter looks forward to each St.Patricks day.