Holidays can be hard sometimes. Even something simple like St. Patrick’s Day can be hard. I want to make them special and memorable for my kids and start family traditions.
First of all… I am tired. I have very little energy to spend beyond the day-to-day and just trying to keep up. I’m low on time. By the time I get home from work and appointments and driving kids all around, it’s late and there are still other things to be done at home. Because I am a frequent user of online ordering and pickup for groceries, I browsed Walmart and Target with my grocery orders this week and neither one has much of anything for St. Patrick’s Day. I just wanted some green candy or something and neither place had anything. I’m thinking maybe I’ll make pancakes and color them green. Sometimes I see that other parents go beyond any amount of effort I can possibly give and I feel a little guilty. But I hope that my kids see that I show up in other ways, even if I don’t create an elaborate leprechaun scene for St. Patrick’s Day!
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Trina Perez
3/14/2023 05:29:41 pm
Your kids are so lucky to have you as their mom! It is the little things the kids remember! Your kids will remember the green pancakes over anything you would have bought them. My tradition....shamrock shakes, jessie loves them. Holiday traditions are made because you are a part of them. Don't sell yourself short!
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3/14/2023 06:50:34 pm
I always felt the same way. I'd see fancy homemade leprechaun traps and green footprints and all that stuff, not too mention the stuff for the elaborate big holidays and I'd always feel bad because I never was that parent but you are right we show up and make memories in other ways. From what I can tell and what I know you go above and beyond where it matters for your kids and that's what they will remember and appreciate. Never doubt what a great mama you are..
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Lesley
3/14/2023 07:24:58 pm
Put a few drops of green food coloring in the toilet! LOL
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Melanie
3/14/2023 08:56:13 pm
No St. Patrick's Day festivities ever happened our home, aside from corned beef and cabbage which was not looked on favorablly and blocked from all memory. They will remember all the everyday moments,..and there in lies a pot of gold.
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Jenny Koutsogiannis
3/14/2023 10:25:13 pm
I guarantee you I am not that mom that goes all out for holidays with the cute stuff, but my kids know that when they were sick or needed something I was there. Just like you are there for your kids! You need to know that they will remember that YOU were there for them over and over and not that the leprechaun wasn't there.
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