This would probably be the most memorable St Patrick's Day celebration we have had - thus far - because we made a tad bit more preparation than we've ever had in the past.
On the night before St Patrick's day, I prepared the kids' hats by decorating green plastic hats with white correction pen. The morning of the saint's feastday saw the kids dressed in whatever green clothes they could find in their closets, green being the distinct colour of the Irish saint (i.e. colour symbolizing both Ireland, the Emerald Isle, and the shamrock which is widely recognized as a symbol for St Patrick, as this was the object he used to teach the people of his time about the Holy Trinity).
Breakfast consisted of green steamed rice muffins (puto) topped with shamrock-shaped cheese, and for beverage I made green pandan-flavoured jelly - cubed and mixed with chilled milk (though I would have preferred to have incorporated some young coconut juice (buko) in the mixture, I had to use ingredients that I already had available). By and large, the kiddies enjoyed their St Patrick-themed morning, dressed in St Patrick's colour!
Although they've watched it several times in the past, the kids engaged in watching the St Patrick animated story a few times during the day, even talking about events in the story that fascinated them, such as the miracles God worked through St Patrick which caused the conversion of numerous pagans. St Patrick colouring pages were pre-printed and made available to anyone who wanted to do some colouring.
To conclude this feastday, we attended evening Mass in honour of the celebrated saint. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is, of course, always the perfect highlight to any celebration.
