From the 'Burg to Your Kitchen

I will be honest – I have never been a huge St. Patrick’s Day fan.

I didn’t really see the whole point of the holiday, but ever since I became a teacher at Bright Beginnings Early Learning Center in Roaring Spring, this holiday has had special meaning.

One year when I first began teaching, I decided to have a crazy leprechaun named Jack come in during the few weeks leading up to the holiday, playing tricks in the classroom and leaving rhyming notes for the children.

This idea that I had originally thought was perhaps the dumbest idea I had in my teaching career turned out to be an idea a paren...