Kiss Me, I'm Irish

No really, I am Irish. It's true.
My mama's Pappy was 100% Irish.
But the only day I brag about being Irish is today.
Being Irish means, I'm white with freckles and have sensitive skin. Although, i like my freckles now that I'm a 'grown up'...yeah!
I sunburn easily though...booo
I have green eyes..yeah!
Going out in the sun in the summer for me is just asking for skin cancer...booo
Living on Okinawa Japan for 4 years, I'm sure, increased my chances for skin cancer by 100%..another booo, but i loved it there anyway, even if i did get sunburned often before 10am :)
I don't have red hair now,but I did when I was younger..yeah!

I did, however, manage to make an 'all green' dinner. No one, however, wanted to eat it but Eric and me. Chase dumped his all green dinner on the table and Allie said it hurt her throat. So they had Ramon Noodles and were as happy as clams at high tide.


I had great plans for today!
But...

Allie woke up a gazillion times with ear pain last night...and was given a gallon of Tylenol.
I tried to make her an appt on base to see the doctor, but by 7:03am, all appts were somehow magically taken while i waited on hold for 13 minutes.
So we were sent down to the lovely Alamogordo Urgent Care along with the rest of Holloman air force base.
Allie still wanted to go to school after the appt because she was 'the leader' today. Very important job you know.

As i dropped Allie off at the front office, the realization of what she was wearing finally hit.
Her wardrobe was as follows on this hallowed Irish day:

Lavender Disney Princess shirt...bordering on being almost too small
Bluejeans that I'm sure she's worn for the second time this week, including Friday of last week
Red and white stripped reindeer Christmas socks
and last but not least...
blue and pink polka dotted Vans

The horror...
I had told her to go get dressed urgently for our trip to Urgent care and hadn't noticed what she'd thrown on urgently...and i didn't expect to be taking her to school urgently right after the urgent care. How many times can you say urgent in one sentence?

But telling her she had to miss a whole day of school when she is 'the leader' for the day is like telling her someone is going to take all her toys and burn them right before her very eyes. So away to school she went.

No one pinched her arm for not having a lick of green on.
No one except this random girl at McDonalds when we were there eating pancakes while waiting for the Urgent Care to open.
"At least", Allie said, "the 'random girl' pinched lightly"...yeah!