The Party Found Us

I completely forgot it was St. Patrick's Day until I was getting ready for church today to teach the little kids Primary Songs. I don't even celebrate the day. Neither does Austin. I didn't have anything green and figured I'd get pinched... until I looked down and realized my AFO brace was BRIGHT green. Austin of course, had a tie!

I got sick... again. Can you believe it? So anyway we had to break the sabbath and go to Walmart (don't judge us....) And because I have ear-aches, a sore throat, and swollen sinuses I just wanted popsicles and cold drinks all day. We drove by McDonald's and SHAMROCK SHAKES!! ...Okay, please, I know. Sore throats aren't even a good excuse for this... and totally not keeping the sabbath and I can't believe I'm admitting to it on here. I got one. These things are glory. I look forward to them ALL year long. Kids, don't do this at home.

I mean, who doesn't love that unnatural green?

It's the color of sinners.

And, I am wearing green now ;)

I suppose it was lucky because I was reunited with my favorite cat earrings in which I hadn't seen since high school.

I could not tame my burning face of sickness so I made this awesome raw-food pudding. I'm not really one for those raw food things but this is way too freaking good. And there's vitamin C (too late I know) and ice in it. A dream for me today. Basically you blend cashews, oranges, water, coconut milk, chia seeds, ice and a banana in a blender :)

Austin's been like this all day:

And I suppose so have I, but I get to paint :) Anyway I decided to make dinner tonight because we usually go by the "who has the lesser" and "who knows how to make this recipe."

I made bulgogi, my favorite Korean dish that we can use ingredients that are easy to find here in Idaho. If you know Asian food, there are no recipes, and one temperature: HIGH.

A mish-mash of beef, mushrooms, onions, scallions, garlic (a crapton), oyster sauce, sesame oil, soy sauce (you can get GF), brown sugar, water, spicy unwashed kimchi, sesame seeds, and red chili seeds!

Then of course you wrap it in lettuce leaves with rice, and topped with cold spicy kimchi.

Cleared out my sinuses! So spicy good!

Hopefully it took out the rest of whatever bacteria was in my stomach too haha!

Today ended up great, and we randomly started celebrating St. Patty's Day... and it ended in a great meal :) Hope yours was awesome too!

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