Irish Night In Review

Irish Night was perfect this year...it was a good combination of fun-filled activities, but very relaxed. We started with food: potato & cabbage stew, potato soup (made by the lovely Holly Jo), champ, yummy breads, raspberry swirl bread (brought by Mary & Matt) and a lemon-poppyseed cake with orange frosting and shamrocks.
We had maybe a bit too many of these edible gold pieces.

I found this milky green vase at a consignment shop, and thought it would be the perfect green decoration for our party.

A look at our delicious breads.

Mikey & Matt teamed up to MC the Limerick reading. Mikey's lounge-jazz piano was the perfect back-up for Matt's "prairie-home-companion" voice.

Hasen & Holly Jo listening intently to Limericks.

We ended the night with a viewing of Darby O'Gill and the Little People. I hadn't seen this since I was in elementary school. It was the perfect treat!

Below are all the Limerick's that were written for the night. ENJOY!

Writing limerick me no likey

It hurtin' me bad in the psyche

I'd rather be bloggin'

Than hurtin' my noggin

Does he ever stop tappin', that Mikey?

-Mo

I set out to write some Limericks

Instead I shook my shimericks

The boys like it more

My woobies get sore

You heard it, now wiggle your wimerick!

-Holly Jo

A duckly wuck duck duck McGoogan

'twas playin' a duck duck a goosin'

When doggly wog dog dog

Fell down in the fog fog

And smashed duckly wuck duck McGoogan.

-Mikey

Michael Peck's a burgeoning linguist

Holly's potatoes came from a steam dish

By the look on his face

He quite liked the taste

Or had gas--his looks are hard to distinguish

-Hasenpfeffer

In this room there are eight lord Christs

(I know cause I counted them twice)

I can't help but feel bad

For the thoughts that I've had

As they stare with their all seeing eyes.

-Matt

My bonnie sweet Irish lass

With a body like an hourglass

Shaped like a fiddle

With a wee little middle

And bosoms as big as her great big ___

-Matt

If you want to talk about eating

I'll just tell you you don't know the meaning

I came from a land in

Where it's always a famine

Like I told you, you don't know the meaning.

-Ashley