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Happy St Patrick's Day!

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Pancakes for breakfast on pancake day! He loves getting his picture taken for my 365 blog, can you tell??

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Ringing in the new year with some nice American beer!

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Christmas lights in Cork! Their tree is WAY better than Dublin's!

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This one is a two-fer because I couldn't choose:

We shouldn't have bothered with the Dora gift for Lana and just bought her a play camera!

Dean eating his starter of mashed potatoes. Oh, Ireland!

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Merry Christmas!

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On the train to Cork!

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Opening Christmas presents! Check! Yummy lasagna in the oven! Check!

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My first batch of Christmas cookies. They're not as nice as I would like, but I'm sure I'll manage to choke them down! Tomorrow I'll make oatmeal cinnamon chip cookies. Wes asked what they were for. Uh...Santa Claus of course! Men can be so dense sometimes! :)

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I hauled these puppies down from the depot today in the hail/rain/and maybe even the odd flake of snow. I'm pretty sure with my red coat, white hat, dark gray pants, and sack of goodies slung over my shoulder that I looked like Santa Claus!

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Sorry, but this is the lamest Christmas tree ever. I was on the LUAS one day and I heard this dad pointing out the special O'Connell Street Christmas tree to his son. The kid was like, where? Where? My sentiments exactly. It looks like a lawn ornament and as you can see, it's pretty much invisible during the day.

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I saw this at the GPO when I was posting my Christmas cards and I thought was so cute! I even saw a little kid posting his letter!

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In Ireland you have to pay to even LOOK at Santa. He lives in a grotto and you pay to go in there and sit on his lap. I wouldn't be surprised if you have to then pay extra for photos. This makes me a little sad. This is Santa's house in Jervis. It's much nicer than his house in the Stephen's Green Shopping Centre.

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I almost forgot about these Christmas decorations! My cousin, Jess, made them for us along with gold and white snowflakes. I love the little stockings! Unfortunately we don't have a tree this year so I have no good place to display them. :(

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Today is a two-fer! We had our Secret Santa party which had lots of delicious food and drink! One picture is Beth, Meg, and Aisling kicking back and enjoying themselves. The second one is my Secret Santa gift. THANKS LIZ!!!

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They're winging their way to the US as we speak! I hope they make it there okay - all of the gifts are wrapped and I just realized that I forgot to write something on the customs slip for the smaller one.

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We put up our Christmas decorations today. TA DA!!! We actually have more than I realized. I knew we had the nativity scene as my aunt gave that to us as a wedding gift. The snowman gourd and the Santa balancing thingy were the surprises. We bought the gourd a year ago at a farm shop near my parent's in the US and we think the Santa was supposed to be a gift for my mom last year, but then we ended up getting her something else so we kept it for ourselves. The stockings and the stocking holders are new this year!

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

Clearly we need to purchase a gravy boat.

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I hung up my fall decoration today. Behold....THE HAND TOWEL!

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Grafton Street's Christmas decorations. While nice I think Henry Street wins by a landslide!