Happy St. Patricks Day A Day Late

Once again I am a day behind in blogging. When will life slow down? :-) I hope you all had a fun "Green" day yesterday.
My day started out slow. I decided to stay home most of the day. While I was having breakfast Lisa, Ava and their puppy Coco Chanel stopped over to go on a walk. So, I leashed up Molly and we headed out for a great walk. The weather was absolutelly perfect . . no humidity, sunny skies and temps in the mid 70's.

After our walk I worked on some things around the house, made lunch and then decided to do some studying. I put on the live stream of the IHOP prayer room and started reading . . . I must have been very tired because an hour an half later I wokeup LOL So much for studying!

After school my niece Lauren stopped over to pickup Alexia. Lauren is a junior in high school and is the daughter of Carlos's brother Rick.
I noticed that Lauren, Sierra and I all had our green on so we snapped a quick St. Patrick's Day picture.
Alexia . . . well she was not in the "green" day spirit of things :-) That's my girl!
That evening Taylor went to an NBA basketball game with his friend Ryan. Ryan's dad works for that NBA organization so Taylor goes to the games with them sometimes. Alexia went out to dinner with Lauren and then spent the night over there. Which left me Landon and Sierra heading to the prayer room for the 6-8 pm prayer watch. It was a wonderful end to a great day!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

We have been gone almost all day! I meant to post this early this morning but I forgot and not there is only 45 minutes left of this day! I guess better late than never! Anyways, Happy St. Patricks Day!

St. Patricks Day Decorating

Ok . . we are not Irish but I love the whole story behind St. Patrick and how he helped bring Christianity to Ireland, so in honor of St. Patrick I have a few items I set out each year.

The Real St. Patrick

'Tis the season for parades, green beer, shamrocks, and articles talking about why St. Patrick's day isn't all about parades, green beer, and shamrocks.
First, a few misconceptions about Patrick:
Patrick isn't really a Saint with a capital S, having never been officially canonized by Rome. And Patrick couldn't have driven the snakes out of Ireland because there were never any snakes there to begin with. He wasn't even the first evangelist to Ireland (Palladius had been sent in 431, about five years before Patrick went). Patrick isn't even Irish. He's from what's now Dumbarton, Scotland (just northwest of Glasgow).
Patrick was 16 years old in about the year 405, when he was captured in a raid and became a slave in what was still radically pagan Ireland. Far from home, he clung to the religion he had ignored as a teenager. Even though his grandfather had been a priest, and his father a town councilor, Patrick "knew not the true God." But forced to tend his master's sheep in Ireland, he spent his six years of bondage mainly in prayer. He escaped at the suggestion of a dream and returned home.
Patrick was in his mid-40s when he returned to Ireland. Palladius had not been very successful in his mission, and the returning former slave replaced him. Intimately familiar with the Irish clan system (his former master, Milchu, had been a chieftain), Patrick's strategy was to convert chiefs first, who would then convert their clans through their influence. Reportedly, Milchu was one of his earliest converts.
Though he was not solely responsible for converting the island, Patrick was quite successful. He made missionary journeys all over Ireland, and it soon became known as one of Europe's Christian centers. This, of course, was very important to fifth-century Christians, for whom Ireland was one of the "ends of the earth."