Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Yesterday afternoon I made slice-and-bake sugar cookies, and then I set some vanilla frosting, green food coloring, green sugar sprinkles, and green glitter icing on the counter so that the kids and I could decorate some fun cookies for St. Patrick’s Day. I figured we’d get this done the day before, so that today there’d be nothing to do except eat the cookies. Anyway, the kids decorated a few, and I decorated a few.

Emrick made this smiley face cookie.

This is Holly’s star-strewn creation.

The kids made a couple of cookies each, and then I tried my own hand at decorating some cookies. First, I tried to draw a shamrock and it was pretty pathetic:

Yeah, not so impressive. Also, it turns out that that green glittery icing tastes nasty in big globs like that. So I ended up scraping it off and frosting it with vanilla frosting and green sprinkles instead. Then I made a few more:

Masterpieces, all.

I also bought some Lucky Charms to surprise the kids this morning. They love Lucky Charms, but I stopped buying them a while ago because it is a real struggle getting them not to eat just the marshmallows. Emrick is pretty well-trained in this now, actually, but Holly is incorrigible, as you can see below:

But when I saw this cute green box of Lucky Charms, I thought it would be fun to surprise the kids this morning.

In addition to the cookies and the Lucky Charms, I bought Emrick an amusing green shirt at Target a little while ago, and intended for him to wear it to school today. But actually, Emrick is sick today! He’s home from school! We’ve all been in and out of bad colds all winter and fall, and today Emrick has a really nasty cough and fever, so I kept him home. He probably won’t be having any cookies today, and he’s still in his pajamas instead of his new green shirt, but luckily… LUCKILY… he wasn’t too sick to choke down some Lucky Charms.

Since I can’t put up a post without pictures of the kids, and since I haven’t taken any pictures of them today, I will put up a couple of older-but-semi-recent ones instead.

This girl is the most precious, edible cupcake. My goodness.

This boy is so handsome and grown up. He even makes his own PBJ sandwiches now.

Have a great St. Patrick’s Day, everyone!