St. Patrick's Day

This is what's for dinner!  Well....it will be when it is finished cooking.



Corned Beef & Cabbage

Our dinner menu today (which we are preparing as a homeschool project)  consists of:  Corned Beef and Cabbage with Potatoes.  Don't forget the GREEN Kool-Aid and these yummy treats.




YUM!

For the rest of school, we spent the morning learning about St. Patrick and here are some memorable and interesting tidbits:

•  *St. Patrick was actually born in Scotland.
•  *His parents were Romans living in Britain in charge of the colonies.

 *At 14 he was captured by a raiding party and taken to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend sheep.

 *Ireland, at the time, was a land of Druids and pagans so during his captivity he turned to God in prayer.

 *He escaped slavery at age 20 thanks to a dream where God appeared.



* As a bishop he was charged to bring the Gospel to Ireland. 

*Why a shamrock?  He used the shamrock or the THREE leaf clover to teach and explain the TRINITY.