I must preface our week by saying that upon arriving home from Targhee, unpacking, laundry, and checking my emails…the week didn’t start off great.  My inbox was flooded with requests from several clients – including two time sensitive projects due Thursday morning.  I had to reschedule some commitments and appointments so I could be available to finish the two of the biggest projects.  It was a stressful welcome home, but we managed.  Wednesday night I had only completed 50-something pages of the 80-something page project and it was already late.  I didn’t think I would have enough time to do anything festive for Sloan for St. Patrick’s Day – but Zach convinced me to do it anyway.  I didn’t decorate the house or buy any St. Patty’s graphic tee’s for Sloan.  But his mom and my mom both used to cut out green feet and leave a trail that lead to surprises that the “leprachauns” had left the night before.  It’s stupid, but we both loved it as kids.  So I cut out those dang feet, threw some green colored items in a bucket, and laid out the feet in a trail.  I finished my project very very late that night, but I finished it.

The next morning Sloan slept in a bit, which was heaven sent, and we lead her to the trail of green footprints.

Her little “ooohhh” when she saw the basket of goodies (mostly food, obviously) was worth it.  I know a lot of people don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and think the hype is lame – but it used to be so much fun for me when I was young – and Zach was more adamant than I was about the whole thing.  His mom takes holidays even further than MY mom did [which is hard to believe].

We had some green colored scrambled eggs for breakfast, got dressed in a couple of green items, and ran our errands.  We had avocado mac (because, it’s green) for lunch before her nap.

I worked some more during nap time and then when she woke up we went on a run on the Legacy Trail.

We got back, I showered up, and we went to get dinner for another separate – but related tradition:  March Madness prep.  We always have pizza and do bracket strategy.  We had done our brackets the night before, so I picked up pizza for dinner. I told Zach I was going to have dinner hot and ready on the table when he got home.  I didn’t lie…

We watched the games, put Sloan to bed, and watched a few more afterwards.  It was a fun day.  I’m so lucky to have these two people as my best friends forever.