The 80+ St Patrick's Day party

My crazy mom and leprechaun Les

Foodsense now will cater in costume

When your 83yo mother is asking for suggestions for appetizers for her St Patty's day party and her son and daughter begin texting Julies best friend, who happens to be a chef, and 30 min later she is hired by Scott to cater the party for Mom with the caveat that she must show up in a leprechaun costume you know you had a good night.

Deal was sealed and Scott hires Les, gives the party to Mom for her birthday and Les is wondering how serious Scott is about the leprechaun costume?  Seems he was dead serious.

The party in full swing

Fast forward 2 weeks to 3:45 on St Patty's at La Costa Glen Retirement Center where Julie is busy arranging chairs and hanging up various St Patty's day decorations when Les is at the front gate telling the young (male) security guard that she is here for Jo Martin's party. Seems she is dressed as slutty leprechaun and the guard assumes Jo is a male and that Les is a strripper... and that is just the beginning.

Soon after she arrives and is doing her cheffie job, I convince Mom, who is dressed in a green wig and other St Patty's accessories to take a quick rest in her lazy boy while we finish up.  Les turns on the oven and much to our surprise there is soon smoke and maybe a bit of fire in the oven. Turns out many ovens at LCG are used for storage as most do not cook.  We open the oven to find a melting container of tomatoes, a corral of coffee pods and box of coffee pods whose lid is stuck to the element and begging to flame.  With much effort we clear the oven, turn on the fan and open the doors while laughing so hard we are crying.  Les is imagining the text "dear Scott, the party did not go so well as I set your mom's kitchen on fire and they had to evacuate LCG"  No alarms and all under control when Mom wakes up mumbling "is something burning?"    A neighbor knocks on the door asking if all is okay.  We nod and say all is fine.

proof I was there and in green of some sort -
serving food 

At 4:15 the doorbell begins ringing and the festive Vintage People begin stream in dressed in various shades of green and lining up for the party necklaces,sticker and a cocktail.  By 4:22 everyone had a stiff drink and was enjoying the appetizers.  Only 2 people asked if Leslie was my daughter/Jo's  granddaughter.  I am chalking that up to fact she is barely over 5 feet and dressed as a leprechaun.  By 4:40 it was time for another round of drinks.  The guests were very appreciative and boy did we had some good laughs.

One asking me what the name of Leslie's  restaurant was, I explained she caters out of her house in Solana Beach, where is the restaurant? , its a catering business, whats is called, foodsensenow,  Oh where is it, Solana Beach, near her restaurant? I finally said Yes. Then, does she serve these appetizers at her restaurant? Yes I said.  And I went back to the kitchen to let Les know she owns a restaurant in Solana Beach.

It's really too bad it is race season as we would have really had a great time if we could have knocked back a few drinks with this crew.

We left at 5 as they partied on before the St Patty's Day Dinner and then onto Bailey's and coffee. Thankfully they all live in complex and no one was driving.