A Wild "Goosey Chase" This Fine St. Patrick's Day!

Elijah had to cut out a green heart for Goosey (Woody) to wear...the rest of us were prepared and wore green...even Joseph!  I had school with Elijah and Isaac and then Esther and Joy and Graham read with me. Graham once again chose to read during most of his extra Grammy school time.  He is now on the last of the Chronicle of Narnia books.

Now for the story to explain tonight's blog title.  Nathan needed to take their RV to have some work done on it and needed Woody to follow him to where he was going so Woody could bring him back home.  Well, Woody and he got separated almost immediately...though Woody couldn't figure out how he could lose such a large vehicle so easily.  What happened was that they went totally different directions and so Woody wouldn't have spotted Nathan. (Woody thought that Nathan was driving that big vehicle awfully fast for him to have never caught sight of him!) Anyway, I guess Woody wandered around in Winchester trying to find the dealership that he thought that Nathan would go to...well, he did finally find it, but Nathan was gone by then!  Nathan had called home and said that he was driving around trying to find his daddy, but couldn't especially since Woody had driven the new car and Nathan still wasn't sure exactly what it looked like...especially since it is white.  Nathan had been told in Winchester to bring the RV back to Tullahoma to get the work done so I suggested that he come on back and that eventually his daddy would figure out that he might as well come on home!!!  Which he did!  When Woody got home, I was over at Nathan and Kathy's taking care of the kids while Kathy went to pick up Nathan and bring him home!  Woody hadn't been over at their house long and Nathan and Kathy pulled back in to their driveway.  Kathy said that on the way home, all of a sudden Nathan burst out laughing.  He said that he was picturing his daddy finally finding an RV and just following it and that perhaps he was heading to Michigan following the wrong RV!  Anyway...never a dull moment around here!

I spent most of the afternoon making our traditional St. Patrick's Day meal--a New England Boiled Dinner: corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots and onions.  My mouth has been watering for it all afternoon.  But then was a bit disappointed as the corned beef seemed very dry...after all the years that I have been making this same meal, this same way, I don't remember the meat ever being dry like this.  Oh, well, the potato and carrot tasted good to me!  Abigail spent part of the afternoon over here.  She got her magazine in the mail today and she made a craft that was in it.  It has been a very chilly St. Patrick's day here in Middle TN.