St. Patrick's Day

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by Quinn Bradlee
Thursday, March 18, 2010

To day at Farebee Hope we talked to the kids about St. Patrick's Day and told them the history of it. They were all surprisingly very interested about it. We also talked to them about Leprechauns and how my grandfather, William Quinn had a Leprechaun that lived in his ear. St. Patrick was born in Roman Briton circa 387 and died 17 Mar 493. He was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland to work as a Shepard. He is also supposedly the one who got rid of all the snakes in Ireland.

My maternal grandfather use to tell my Mom's family and his grandchildren that he had a little leprechaun who lived in his ear who's name was Geronimo. I remember my grandfather, after my mother telling me, how he would put his pinky-finger up to his ear and ask Geronimo to come out; he would only do it when he needed advice. We also had the kids draw their own leprechauns and that the kids could name them what ever they wanted to. One of the little girls named their leprechauns Quinn! I guess that works out since Quinn is an Irish name and my mom's family is from Ireland.

At the end of the Power Lunch we gave them and the teacher some cake, which they all loved and finally did our crowning of the new king. There was only one boy there who had not been crowned king and he wanted to be so bad that he almost couldn't go through the ceremony. At the end of the crowning, he said what he needed to say and then just grabbed the crown from the other boy. All of the kids at the beginning of the Power Lunch all came screaming with joy to give me a big hug and the end, they all did the same thing but were a little more melancholy.