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10. Green is my favorite color, Kelly green especially.
9. Our family moved to Texas on March 17, 2000! Ten years ago today.
8. It always reminds me of my cousin, Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day.
7. I wrote an awesome poem in junior high about green for an English class, and got recognition for it, honorable mention in a poetry contest.
6. Since our family moved to another school in a different state, I submitted the same poem for a high school English class, and got an A.
5. Green looks good on me. (And in my opinion, it looks good on everyone.)
4. I whipped up corned beef and cabbage and potatoes for dinner tonight for the first time, starting a brand new tradition! (We were in California at this time, last year during spring break and enjoyed dinner with Aunt Ollie's family--Billie Joe's mom--and she served that menu and I LOVED it.)
3. Even though I'm not much of an environmentalist, I decided to support my friends who are, so today I bought some super cute "GREEN BAGS" for grocery shopping, and can do my part in saving a few plastic bags. My green bags are actually a brown zebra print, with lime green handles. Way stylish, and they actually hold a lot and things don't fall out of them while driving home.
2. GREEN FOOD! It is so much fun to serve green food and make a big deal out of this heavenly, living color. Today's green foods included green ice cream cones with Bluebell Pistacchio Almond ice cream, baby kosher dills--pickles and ice cream??? Weird!--sparkling 7-up spiked with green food coloring, and a green chef salad. I was planning to make pork green chili stew for lunch today, but ended up spending a lot of the day doing a service project for someone. I'll cook it tomorrow.
And finally, the number one reason why I love the 17th of March:
1. Because I'm IRISH!!! Who isn't on St. Patrick's Day?!!! Kiss me! xoxo
Photography by Carolyn Turner
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Let's see...my favorite thing about March 17 is the beautiful spring weather...which, in Texas, is one of the few times the outdoors are lush and green. I spent the day with my kids (and Grandma) at Zilker Park. We rode the train (which, wouldn't you know, is painted green.) The air was cool and the sky was blue with marshmallow clouds, but mostly the grass was a very lovely green.
your new pics are so fun! very stripe-y... cute!
your "green" bags sound awesome... now let's hope you are better than I at actually remembering to bring them into the store vs. leaving them in your trunk!
Didn't really celebrate my Irish % of family heritage this year... but love that you enjoyed it!
Nice to see you blogging again too zuster.
P.S. What fabulous photos! :-)
PS - These pictures of your fam are so cute! And you are looking fabulous!!