Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!! I love this holiday. Did you know that according to legend St. Patrick used the three leaf clover (or shamrock) to explain the Trinity? That’s a good reason to like it, but to be completely forthright, I love it because my husband makes the best corned beef and cabbage on the planet. He cooks the corned beef, then cuts it up and adds cabbage and carrots, and stir fries it all in about 17 pounds of butter so it’s salty and crispy and oh my word so good!
One thing I haven’t had time to really get into on the blog is that our daughter Harmony went through testing last month. She has been sick for about 6 months and after blood work, an endoscopy and genetic testing, the doctors believe she has celiac disease and needs to be on a strictly gluten free diet. With John having a culinary degree and many of my friends being gluten free, the thought of going gluten free didn’t scare me that much. Week after week, I’ve been having major #momfail moments -forgetting to check a label assuming I knew, forgetting altogether she’s gluten free and telling her to eat mac and cheese. Man oh man! We’re getting better slowly. The hardest part for us is that we are on the go all the time and it’s so hard to find a place to eat out that has gluten free AND kid friendly food. It makes us want to start a GF restaurant. It’s the entrepreneurial spirit in us! Lol! If you live in our area and know of kid friendly, gluten free restaurants, please share them with me. I’d love help! Also, I wouldn’t mind fun, GF lunch ideas if you have them. ;)
In the spirit of St. Patrick’s day I had to share a green furniture makeover today. Although this isn’t what you picture as St. Patrick’s Day green, it’s the closest that I have at the moment. :) Give me credit for trying at least. lol
Here’s the dresser before.
To see how we paint furniture check out our How To Paint Furniture post. We used a gallon that we already had for the color, but the best match to a swatch that I could find was Benjamin Moore’s Cool Mint 582. We decided on the color by letting our facebook fans pick from these choices. If you haven’t already started following us on Facebook, please join in on the fun here. You’ll get to see furniture before it ends up on our site and help me make fun decisions like this. 
Here are the afters for you!
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Happy funcycling friends!
Sarah ;)
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Hi Sarah,
I am so sorry to hear that about Harmony. At least now you know and can (hopefully) avoid gluten foods. Chloe was diagnosed with a peanut allergy last year so we are always reading labels and VERY carefully where we go out to eat. Cracker Barrel has been great with food allergies if you tell them up front. I now see whole sections in the super markets (Price Chopper – in Latham) that is GF. Good luck with everything!! xo