Friday, March 15, 2013  Luck of the Irish  Last night I stayed
up late to finish embellishing a shirt for Rachel to wear to
school today. She told me earlier this week that for "Fun
Friday" her class was planning a St. Patrick's Day Parade and
that everyone was supposed to wear green. The only problem was
that she doesn't have any green clothes (besides a green velvet
dress that I wasn't about to send her to school in) so we got
out the little knifty knitter she got for Christmas and she set
to work making a little green tube. She didn't get very far and
we kept putting that project off in favour of others until it
was literally the midnight hour.  I pulled it out last night and
worked on it while I rocked the baby and read some articles and
eventually got the baby to sleep and finished a tube long enough
to work with. I fashioned a little clover (initially she asked
me if I could make a camera for her to wear to school—some odd
meld of (clover + shamrock)—and was very upset when I couldn't
understand why she