Trickster

I love celebrating holidays with food and St. Patrick's Day is no exception. I often have loftier goals than I'm able to accomplish but I still like to try. Yesterday I had planned to get everything ready for today while the little ones napped but Sam and Ty wanted me to play some games with them so I did. Ty had never played Candyland or Chutes and Ladders before. Chutes and Ladders took about 45 minutes to finish. I was going crazy ready for that blasted game to end. From numbers 92-100 there are 3 slides and we kept landing on them prolonging the game. The boys thought it was so funny while I was ready to pull my hair out. Anyway, I never got around to running my errands or making any festive food until after 9 (I had to watch American Idol). I ended up being up til 1am making cookies, green bread, jell-0, decorations. I wasn't sure if all the effort and loss of sleep would be worth it but it totally was. All week Sam has been talking about Leprechauns and how we need to set traps for them to get their gold. This morning Sam got up before I had set everything up so I was pretty bummed but then I got an idea. Sam had some cereal and then we went upstairs to wake the other kids up. I sneaked downstairs and turned the milk green. When they came downstairs, Sam went crazy. The milk was green when it was just white. I told them a Leprechaun must have snuck into our house and turned stuff green. What a silly trick he played on us. Then I went to get the bread and it was green too. I was beginning to convince skeptical Conner that maybe there was a Leprechaun. They then saw the cookies that Sam swore had white frosting on them before and now they too were green. Sam looks in the fridge and sees green jell-o. What I made strawberry jell-o last night and I was going to put bananas in it. That stinkin' leprechaun is ruining everything. Sam grabs the kiwi. Look he turned the kiwi green. Well actually those were already green son. The best was the eggs. I cracked them in front of them and then moved them to the other counter and we went upstairs to get Lucy and when we came back down they were green. They were totally hooked and began to go on a Leprechaun hunt looking everywhere. Sam kept telling me we should have set traps, we should have set traps. He also kept saying this is weird, this is very very weird. Conner was so excited to go to school and tell his classmates that a Leprechaun was at his house and turned all our food green. He had his green sandwich to prove it. I just wonder how he'll take his belief being ridiculed. Well it was fun while it lasted! I can't wait for dinner when they realize the Leprechaun has returned. It's so fun. Isn't it these little silly things, often revolving around holidays, that our kids remember when they're adults that bring back the fondest memories? Well I sure hope so.