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Saint Patrick’s Day 2021

Yearly Boiled Dinner
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We had a nice Sant Patrick’s Day meal tonight after Eva’s Krav Class. This year we boiled two corned beef cuts. We did Point cut in Guinness with the veggies in the crock pot all day. In another crock pot we had flat cut with Killian’s Red and all the veggies except for the cabbage. That was put in later. We decided that we enjoy eating the point cut for the meal but the flat is much better for making corned beef hash the next day because it stays together better than the point which is stringy and falls apart. But now we definitively know what to choose.

Pot O Gold Cookie

After dinner we had some Pot ‘O gold cookies that the Leprechaun left for us. Andy observed that when we don’t leave out traps the Leprechaun leaves us treats. He did leave us some mischief, too like green milk and green toilet water. Eva mentioned to Allison that “the Leprechaun” should stir the milk up a lot more. I like that she keeps the magic alive for Andy.

Andy's classwork

The image above was from Andy’s schoolwork that we saw today. It made us smile.

Today one of my high school friends, Marybeth, brought her son, Matthew, over to check out my YouTube game streaming setup. He’s nearly 13 with several different issues like Autism, ADHD, Anxiety and communication disorder plus nerve damage to his intestines and NASH Liver Disease. He’s a great kid with a great attitude and some very big dreams. So we had a conversation together to talk about those dreams in the hopes that somehow the right people see this video and offer to send him some cheer. He is really looking for autographs from Youtubers, Marvel movie stars and artists. He wants to be a YouTuber someday and also an artist for Marvel. I hope that he sees all his dreams come true.

Long Overdue Popesmas

The four kids

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Today one of our close friends came down with her kids to celebrate a long overdue Popesmas. Popesmas is a post Christmas Thanksgiving meal that we have with our friends who have the last name of Pope. We called it that once and the name stuck. So, 3/5 of the Popes came down to visit, have a turkey dinner lunch and go to Eva’s basketball game.

Eva played in a game this afternoon as part of the St. John’s Tournament. Unfortunately her team did not win. They played very hard but were outscored. At least Eva has a nice time wit her friends.

Then we all went back to the house and the kids played together. The boys played in one place and the girls in another. They all came together right before leaving to play Dungeon Mayhem. The rest of the cards that I had ordered arrived today and I added them to the Monster Mayhem box. It was great seeing them all play nicely together.