“Top O’ The Morning To Ya!”

“Top O’ The Morning To Ya!”

Oh yes, were she alive today, that’s what my Mom would be saying to everyone.  You see, today, March 17th, is her birthday; she would have been 92.  She was only half-Irish but that didn’t stop her from making St. Patrick’s Day her own personal holiday.

Mother had her own personal remedy for when she didn’t feel so hot, as she always put it; whether a cold or stomach upset, she always reached for some Creme De Menthe that she kept tucked away…you know, for medicinal purposes.
                                        

Mary Patricia (her real name even though she hated the name Mary) could be a fairly intolerant person when something didn’t suit her or jump to her tune.  She loved my three children, her only Grandkids, but always went out of her way to comment on our middle daughter, Jill, calling her “The Green-Eyed Dragon” whenever Jill dug her heels in and refused to do what she was told.

So, in honor of my late mother’s birthday, I offer you a special cocktail; one that I’m sure Mary Patricia would have loved sipping…just for those medicinal purposes, of course!

                         

           Cha deoch-slàint, i gun a tràghadh.
                            (It’s no health if the glass is not emptied.)