The McMuffins do St Patty's Day

We did St. Patty's Day up in style this year, with the second (or is it third by now?) annual "Maple Breakfast" at the Anderson's house, featuring more delicious morning foods than you can find on a Long Island diner menu.  Sausages (many kinds, including Irish "black pudding" and "white pudding"), bacon, waffles (chocolate and regular) with fresh blueberry syrup (from the Anderson's garden last summer) and Timber Hill maple syrup, fresh fruit, egg casserole (courtesy of the "blinder biddies"), soda bread (two kinds), cheesy potatoes, and many mimosas.  Everyone lounged around listening to Irish music until lunchtime, at which point people migrated, in dribs and drabs, over to our house for Guinness stew and colcannon.  Our first progressive meal, successfully completed, even if it was over an entire day!  We capped it all off with Guinness milkshakes for the grown ups and Lucky Charms krispie squares for the kiddos.

As usual, there were numerous episodes of side-splitting laughter even though we barely did anything but eat and talk all day.  Thanks to facebook the kids (and adults) all got graced with their "leprechaun names"... Greenie McMuffin (Aiden) and Stumpy McMuffin (Haley) had a great time being goofy with different Irish hats and green garb.  Who knows what spells those little leprechauns cast on us while we were upstairs socializing?

We also got in what we thought would be the last ski day of the season, on Saturday at Pat's Peak.  Bek, Nate, Oliver and Benjamin joined us for a day on the slopes there, and it was great to see them even though we were so active we barely had time to catch up on life.  The skiing was pretty good for a chilly day in the "corn-snow" season in New England, not too icy and everyone found a slope or two to have fun on.  Haley did the chairlift twice (she loves the chairlift, much to Andy's dismay... too high up for a little miss that could easily slip under the bar.  Don't worry though, I've got a death grip on her) and Aiden took his dad down through an impressive terrain park with all sorts of jumps and obstacles.  And... as it turns out... there is another giant snowstorm headed our way tonight, with 12-16" of snow forecast.  It appears the ski season has just been extended at least one more weekend. :)

Haley, Oliver, Aiden and Benjamin

Enjoying a Shamrock Shake