St. Patty's Day Magic

Jadan's class must be talking about St. Patrick's Day a lot. Yesterday he came home from school with a lot of information about leprechauns in particular... "Caitlin caught a leprechaun last year. She said it unrolled a whole roll of toilet paper in her house...for like 2 miles! I'm gonna make a leprechaun trap!!" he told me excitedly. Yipee, who is gonna clean up all the toilet paper, I ask? Pictured is Jadan's leprechaun trap (he actually drew a design of it before starting the construction process!). And, YES, those are real gold nuggets outside the box to lure him in. Little does the poor leprechaun know that they are merely rocks from our backyard painted yellow...

Well, the visit from the magical leprechaun was imminent. Luckily, he spared our toilet paper and instead found some streamers in the craft cabinet downstairs. An entire roll of streamers I might add. Inevitably, someone had to wake up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night (go figure?); actually2 somebodies...Jadan was one of them and he came into our bedroom to tell us about the "mess the leprechaun left!" Even though it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 2AM, he was bright eyed and so excited he could NOT get back to sleep so woke me up again an hour later!!

And the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? A letter from Lucky the Leprechaun, along with rainbow Twizzlers and a shamrock necklace for each of the kids. Also, the last box of Lucky Charms Wal*Mart had in stock...ya know, so the kids won't just eat Twizzlers for breakfast :)