While I was teaching on Thursday, one of our babysitters helped the kidlets make a snow house on the deck.  He shoveled snow up in a heap, and then they carved out an interior cove big enough to fit a lawn chair!  They made windows, and even a fireplace inside.…

Despite the fact that I was up making green pancakes at an early hour and that everyone did have the opportunity to eat Irish soda bread, Kidlets kept asking me all day, “Why are we not REALLY celebrating this holiday.”  They missed the blasting celtic music that usually wakes them…