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It’s a funny thing, the way a tradition begins.  What it means and why it stays.

It’s St. Patrick’s Day of course and as far as I know, even though I come from a family of many mixed countries, Ireland is probably not one of them.  However the kids have a need to celebrate!

Everyone wears green.  There were even some arguments of if it was green enough!

It wasn’t too many years ago when my parents would travel to Phoenix each March and spend the month out here away from the still dastardly Wisconsin weather.  I guess maybe because it was the one holiday we had together, we all made a little minor event out of it.  Not enough probably to write a postcard home about, but enough to plant a seed in the kids, enough to keep us running back each year on March 17.

There’s a little restaurant called Chompies we’d hit together for lunch.  Years ago it was spring break week, so G-ma & G-pa took the kids and us there for green bagels and/or corned beef on rye.  And this was our simple but happy, once a year celebration together as 3 generations, doing the same thing 3 years in a row.

Well G-ma and G-pa haven’t been out for a few years now.  Traveling is a little harder these days.  Because of this and because spring break in now a week earlier, I often drag a kid with me and pick up the goods.  Doesn’t matter, the memory of the fun time with G-ma & G-pa is in tact and enjoyed once again.  And a tradition is a tradition and will always be what we remember and repeat.

And I’m pretty sure it’s meaningful enough to live on into our children’s adulthood and maybe beyond.  Isn’t that so cool?

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