My Pretty Irish Girl

Daylight Savings Time is back with a vengeance.  Spring is the one nobody seems to like, present company included.  This is the one where everyone loses an hour of sleep, gets up an hour earlier, and pretends to be all happy about it!  Of course, we're glad to have the extra hour later in the day, but initially, you're generally too tired to enjoy it so much.

Regardless, we did have a great day today.  You can see above Pastor Lance bringing a message for our series, "Roughin' It," which is continuing in a strong way.  The messages have been tied to 'the wilderness' and 'being still' and things like that.  Some messages even have to do with walking sticks, trees, and rivers.  It's all tied really well to the Bible, and Daddy has been happy with how it all has turned out.  Madison and the kids are really enjoying it too.  The skits have incorporated a lot of Daddy's youth in them, old camp skits from Daddy's days with the Y-Club and boy scouts.  The first of these, the Y-Club, was a rich source of hilarity on stage, which led us to today's material, which featured a line-up of actors singing a song that just cracked everyone up.  It's hard to describe here, but it involves an airline stewardess, an ice cream maker, a firefighter, a football player, a camp bus driver and more.

After church, we went home to rest today.  It's the day of rest, so it's okay, right?  We did piano, or at least Madison did!  She's looking forward to each completion of her practice sheets, because upon each completion, she gets a Vinylmation figure, preferably a wrestler.  This is so odd to us, but we'll take it:  we've already got the wrestlers, and she'll work to earn them!

We did a movie that she's not seen all the way through before:  "Darby O'Gill and the Little People."  Yes, this is in preparation for the big holiday this week, St. Patrick's Day.  Yes, we make a big deal of it around here.  But we also make a big deal about most holidays, as you've no doubt probably already discerned from reading any of these blog entries.

We all enjoyed the movie, and of course are still singing that song within it, the one Sean Connery sings with Janet Munro.  "Oh, she's my dear, my darling one, her eyes are sparkling full of fun..."  Mommy and Daddy have seen this movie a lot.  It is simply amazing that they didn't use any green screen for many of the leprechaun visuals.  You simply take things for granted, but they actually built movie sets that fools the eyes and makes you think there are little people all around.  The story, however, is the big thing.  This is just a fun Irish story, and I'll have to say the ultimate St. Patrick's Day movie if you're going to choose one.

Tonight, we went to bed on time, quite tired.  But that song is still stuck in our heads... "My smiling and beguiling one.... my pretty Irish girl!"