March 17, 2025

☘️ We Are the Hansons: Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day as a Family! 🎉👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

☘️ We Are the Hansons: Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day as a Family! 🎉👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

In this festive episode of We Are the Hansons, we’re diving into all the fun and cultural ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day as a family! 🍀✨ From classic traditions to our own Hanson family favorites, we share creative activities, delicious recipes, and meaningful ways to embrace Irish heritage—whether you have Irish roots or just love the holiday! 🏡🎶 🎨 Fun with the kids – DIY crafts, scavenger hunts, and leprechaun mischief!
🍽️ Festive feasts – Irish-inspired meals and treats the whole family will love!
📖 Cultural connections – Irish folklore, music, and history made fun for all ages!
🏡 Family traditions – How we make St. Paddy’s Day special in the Hanson household! Whether you're looking for new ways to celebrate or just want to hear how a big family like ours enjoys the holiday, this episode is packed with inspiration and joy! 🎙️💚

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Welcome to what we are, the Hansons, and today we're

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talking about Saint Patrick's Day.

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Welcome everyone.

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Yeah, you know what, you want to have fun with

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your kids, your wife, everything you can do. You want

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to have some fun with it. And I think we

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do a pretty good job with Saint Patrick's Day. What

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do you think?

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I think? So? I think they make it fun for

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the kids.

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We did. I mean, I really appreciate the things that

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my mom and dad and my grandparents did for me.

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But we did fun stuff on Saint Patrick's Day. I

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mean some stuff I know now that has nothing to

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do with Saint Patrick's Day, but we were celebrating some

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of our Irish heritage. And I mean I think I

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would say, like seventy percent of Americans have Irish in

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their ancestry somewhere.

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Yeah, I think I would have to agree.

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Yeah, I mean, and it's just it's fun. It's one

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of them things. I mean, every since Shrek came out,

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wouldn't you say that, like Saint Patrick's Day got even

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though just because he's a green ogre. I mean, somehow

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that has affected Saint Patrick's Day.

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Hm, that's pretty cool actually.

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So, I mean we have food Food's probably the biggest

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thing when it comes to Saint Patrick's Day. Now, you

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love corn beef and cabbage, Yes see, I like boiled

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cabbage with butter, salt and pepper. I mean, just you know,

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I'm a pretty basic guy. I just don't do the

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corn beef, don't. I really don't know why.

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I don't know why either, because I love it.

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Yeah, I mean I eat it. I choke it down.

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You know. It's it's a family thing. But I wouldn't

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say that I'm piggy, Piggy or peggy. You know, it

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is what it is, Folks, Happy Saint Patrick's Day. It

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was a long weekend for us. We went up to

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see some family up in Flatland. Yeah, and so it

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was a long trip back. You know. We went up there.

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We left before the storms, didn't even know that we

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were getting superstorms, and then we had superstorms come in.

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And how was the drive back?

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It seems like it takes less time coming back. The

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drive going there takes longer, I think.

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And the thing is is, if you have a traditional

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family like ours. I do most of the driving.

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He does, and we drive multiple cars.

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Yeah, well we have our kids and our nephews and

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you know, we make things, you know, super fun for family.

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Just you have to, especially if you want to get

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the most out of life. And Saint Patrick's stays no different.

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Yeah. I like going on trips with all our family.

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I do too, And so spice it up whatever you're doing,

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even if it's like if you're having a husband and

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wife night, you know, get some clear wine, put some

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green food coloring in it. You know. Hm, you do

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know what I'm saying. You know, maybe you can you know,

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set the moved, you know what I'm saying. Oh sure, okay,

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But if you're dealing with the kids and you want

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to have some fun, Okay, we did this last year.

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We made slime. Yep, we made slime green slime. Yeah,

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and it had the little green glitters in it.

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It definitely tends to make a mess if it gets.

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It can make a mess. And gentlemen, if you want

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to save your shaving cream, hide it. Hide it before

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the slime gets made.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, otherwise it's going to be gone and you know,

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you're going to be looking and it's gonna be in

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you know, some cupboard in some other bathroom or hidden

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somewhere from you. So they can make more more slime.

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Yeah, it's between that and glue right now.

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On Easter, traditionally families go and find Easter eggs. Okay,

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but one of the big things that celebrated out on

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the East Coast is families have scavenger hunts on St.

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Patrick's Day.

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I think that'd be fun. Maybe we should start doing

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something like that.

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Well if you remember that one year we did the

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gold coin thing.

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Yeah, the gold coins, yeah, and we did.

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A scavenger hunt. But I mean they get really really

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in depth, like you can find one thing and it

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will tell you where to go to for the next

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like give clues, and.

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You can think that's fun.

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It is, it's awesome, and you can you can make

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it so the kids can actually do it, like the

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biggest tree or the you know, the whatever it may be,

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or by the red car or something, and you can

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make it fun and you can just get a list

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and you can go on these scavenger hunts and they're

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pretty fun. You know, some cities actually do that. Also.

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I wonder if we could do one where they go

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on a scavenger hunt for four leaf clovers.

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Well, I mean you could do that, but I think

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they get well, yeah, but the kids, you know, it'll

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be like, oh, this is too much like mowing lawn. No,

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you can go to a parade. I love Saint Patrick's

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Day parades. There's just something about it, you know, and

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there's usually pretty good food at those. Now this is

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kind of Christmas y and other thing. But some people

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we haven't done this per se. We haven't done the cookies.

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It says you can decorate shamrock cookies, but we have

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done the not the muffins, but the other things with

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the green topping and you know, cupcakes, cupcakes. We did

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cupcakes one year.

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Yep.

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Where we did you.

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Know that we did green pancakes.

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We did green pancakes, waffles and waffles, and we did

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green scrambled eggs yep.

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And ham yep.

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The ham that it's a little bit hard to get.

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It turned out to be the right color.

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Yeah, because it's kind of like it turns brown right.

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If your kids are a little bit older, you can

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donate to charity or send something special to charity. You

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can tell them about the struggle that the Irish had,

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you know, about famines actually happening in Ireland, things like that.

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But just doing something with your kids like crafts and

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things like that.

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Yeah, our kids love doing crafts. Doesn't matter what it is.

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They if you say let's do some crafts, they will

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be there doing.

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It, you know. Speaking of that, the kids went to

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your sister's house, yep, and they made some of the

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coolest So your sister's kind of a crafty gal. Yes,

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does a lot of stuff. Her husband is also your

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niece or our niece. She's very very crafty. But they're

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very very good and they get in depth with their stuff.

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So tell everybody what she was making.

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She makes gnomes, and she has she names each of them.

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She sews all their clothes to fit them. She makes

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their shoes, whether it's a ton of shoes or boots.

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Their custom. Yes, they all have their own names.

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Yeah. And then she writes a story about each gnome,

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and each gnome has a little pet with it, whether

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it be a bird, a rabbit, whatever, an owl, whatever

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it may be. It's there's always a story with it

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when you purchase them.

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See, I think I was kind of making fun of her.

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I was. I was coming up with names like Govinsky,

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Mac and Flip and you know, just stuff like that,

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and it was so fun. But you know, we could

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do something really cool we do, like Igor Patrick mcfluffin. Yeah,

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like you could do your own stuff, but things like that.

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Our daughters had a wonderful time with their aunt and

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they came back and they had these really cool looking

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dolls and they'll keep them forever. Yeah, you know they

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will be handed down to their children. And you know,

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it's so easy, folks, if you actually take the time

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and a lot of people say I'm too busy. If

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you actually start looking at how much you're looking at

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your phone, but you're looking at the TV, and you

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start investing your time into your children, you're going to

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find that life is a whole lot more fulfilling and

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a lot better And it really doesn't take take that long.

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Yeah, and it's important. It's important for them to know

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that you're taking time to spend with them.

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Right. Here's something most people don't know this, but you

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can bake soda.

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Bread that actually sounds good.

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Now, soda bread is very very irish. I love soda bread. Well,

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you know me, I like any kind of bread.

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I've never had it.

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Beer bread, soda bread soured oah, I mean I'm just

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a bread fanatic. Okay, that's That's probably why I used

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to be big around the midriff. Midriff, you know what

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I'm saying. If you got young girls now that you

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have always done this from the time they're small. You

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paint their nails to match the holiday, the holiday, yep,

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and it's it's pretty cool when you got the green,

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the white, the gold. Yeah, and multiple colors are green.

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Yeah, yep. We're going to try and catch a Leprechaun tonight.

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M Lepracauns can be pretty shifty. Yeah, well, you guys

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catch a Leprechaun. I'll get the gold. How about that? Okay,

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you can have a costume contest.

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You're gonna dress up like a lepren.

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No, but you can have one and then you know,

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everybody wins, so you know, the little kid doesn't feel bad,

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you know what I mean.

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They're gonna want their dad to dress up like a

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leprecaun too.

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I know, I know, and I have done things like that.

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Yeah, do you have.

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You can make? You can make other things besides corn

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beef and hash, like Irish stew that's actually a thing,

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potato soup.

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Corn beef and cabbage, or corn beef hash.

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Oh did I say corn beefash. I meant corn beef

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and cabbage. She was giving me the evil eye. Folks started.

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I was trying to think you just said that, and

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I was like, wait a second, that's not right.

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Well it's corn beef and corn beef and hash.

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I actually like, yeah, you do eat a lot of that.

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Yeah, that's very very good with eggs and toast. I'm

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kind of a morning person, so I kind of like breakfast.

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It's like the best time kids waking up getting ready

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for the day, and you get to sit there and

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have great conversations with them before the day, and you

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got to get to motivate them, give them a little

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bit of confidence to tackle the day. You know what

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I'm saying.

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You know, we could make green coffee.

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Let me know how that goes.

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Well, you know how you put creamer in coffee.

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Well, I don't drink creamer, but the girls have.

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Yeah, you could add a little bit of green to

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it and make the color green because it turns like

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a real light tan.

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You could you could also do like a apple, like

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a green apple type of drink. Yeah, these things. I

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always say, go on a walk. I mean, you can

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go on a walk, but you can go on a

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walk any day, and I highly recommend it. You can

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make a special playlist to show your children what music

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from Ireland sounds like traditional you know, bagpipes, Yeah, you know.

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You could teach your kids what kilts are, not that

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they would wear them. You obviously could go and celebrate

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mass drinking green beer. Now that's a thing. However, most

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people don't know this, but from nineteen oh three to

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nineteen seventy in Ireland they actually shut the pubs down

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on Saint Patrick's Day because it was an important religious holiday.

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So the green beer thing kind of came from the US.

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Considering also that traditional Saint Patti's colors were blue and gold.

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Yeah I didn't know that.

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Yeah, and yeah we turned it in. Now this is

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something very important. Are you and ice cream meter? I'm

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talking to the people out there because I know I've

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been with you for twenty some years, so I know

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that you are. But we have celebrated this. We've had

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shamrock shakes before.

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Very good. Minty yep, you know, very goodness filled to accept.

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You know, it's not so good when you got diabetes.

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Yeah, that means no for you.

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Now, if you're older. You could take a cooking class.

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I for sure would do the breakfast thing, do a brunch.

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If you don't like breakfast that you can plant shamrocks

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or you could hunt them. Yeah, like four leaf clover.

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Then you got to figure out, you know what's the winner. Yeah. Now,

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years ago, there used to be this thing where you

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could take it and put it between the two pieces

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of plastic. Do you remember that? And it would seal

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itself like once it was clicked, it was clicked forever.

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And you can do that with four leaf clovers, and

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then you always have something with your sister.

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Christie always finds a lot of four leaf glovers.

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Yeah, I don't know how she does it. She's lucky,

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you must that. Maybe that's why I got bad luck,

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because there's only so much luck that can go around

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in one fan luck. She got all the good luck

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and I got. If I don't make my good luck,

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it don't happen. Yeah. You can play a Saint Patty's

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a game, and there are plenty of them out there.

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You know, get the coin over the rainbow, there's pin

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the clover to the Leprechaun, which you know they kind

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of got stolen but it's all about creating something in

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your family.

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That's fun and the memories. I mean, the kids are

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going to remember that, right I remember to their family.

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Well, I remember that my dad made a little like

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clown thing one time. And this could be done with

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a you know something Saint Patty's four leaf flover and

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then it had holes in it and you'd sit back

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and you'd throw the ball and try to get the

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ball in the hole. And you know, whoever got the

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most points won that type of thing. I mean it

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sounds very basic, but sometimes the basic things are the best. Right.

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You can learn the history behind Saint Patrick's day, and

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there's a lot of history people don't know.

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talking about earlier.

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Yeah, like Saint Patrick he was kidnapped. He was actually

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from Roman England and was kidnapped by basically Irish barbarians

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and was brought back and he tended cheap for seven

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years and before he became a saint.

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I would like to visit Ireland.

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Yeah, Ireland's cool. It's cool. You could learn how to

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step dance, you could learn Gaelic. I mean, these are

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all things that you can do. But in our family.

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It's pretty much around food and games, yeah, you know,

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and just celebrating to celebrate. Sometimes there's nothing wrong with

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enjoying something that's around. Like tomorrow, there's gonna be people smiling,

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there's gonna be people with green all over. It's gonna

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be a wonderful time.

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Yes, I think the kids enjoy it a lot more

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just because they really want to catch a lepre.

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Gun right well, and I mean if they do, they

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could be rich. Yeah, Like I tell them, we're already rich.

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He leaves some coins well on his trail to this.

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I think one of the most important parts of teaching

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children what is rich? Saint Patty's Day is a perfect

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time to talk about it. What makes you rich?

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For me?

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For no, what makes anybody rich the being fulfilled, living

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life in abundance. So it's not about having tons of

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money in the bank or you know, what kind of

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car you drive. You know, maybe for some people that

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are weird.

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I feel rich just having the family we have.

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Well, that's what I'm saying.

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The money is whatever, right that it doesn't buy happiness,

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that just buys.

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You know exactly. And Saint Patrick's Day is one of

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those days to sit back and say you know what,

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thank you Lord forgiving me everything that I got, my

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beautiful family, my job, I love, whatever it is, and

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go out and enjoy this celebration of something iconic in

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the world. Yeah so yeah, anyways, that's the show for today.

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