{"id":29367,"date":"2019-02-11T10:34:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?p=29367"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:34:41","slug":"february-birthday-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=29367","title":{"rendered":"February Birthday Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim-40 has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background-dim is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-image:url(http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/20190209_01110101N1WEB.jpg)\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing there are other ladies in the family who are good at planning because if birthday parties were left up to me, it wouldn&#8217;t be nearly as awesome. This year Jessica and Laurent hatched a plan to put on an Irish themed party for Grandma Pat, and all I had to do was come up with some hors d&#8217;oeuvres. Off I went to You-Tube, and was inevitably pulled into a Tasty video playlist. This one was particularly enticing:<\/p>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pQrnaAuzRTY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p>So many to choose from, but honestly I didn&#8217;t have the energy for the really fun ones. I haven&#8217;t been sleeping for going on two months now thanks to my broken CPAP, and am perpetually exhausted, so I decided on the easiest thing I could find &#8211; bite-size cheesy pigs-in-blankets. I took Jacob and went shopping Friday night, and gave him a list to go in for me, as he likes to do. NOT really his fault that he came out with Grand Biscuits instead of Puff Pastry. He&#8217;s a guy. Still, I thought that was going to result in something, er, interesting. I was right! Lol! But it was deemed delicious by everyone, especially the kids, who ate themselves silly before meal time. And that&#8217;s too bad, because Laurent made Dublin Coddle and fish cakes, Jessica brought colcannon and soda bread, and for dessert there were almond infused cupcakes and Irish Creme Cake! Ahh-mazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got a few pics, just family around the house. Love my fam, love my MIL, and her motto is so true: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Family is SO IMPORTANT!<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many to choose from, but honestly I didn&#8217;t have the energy for the really fun ones. I haven&#8217;t been sleeping for going on two months now thanks to my broken CPAP, and am perpetually exhausted, so I decided on the easiest thing I could find &#8211; bite-size cheesy pigs-in-blankets. 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