But ... with the impending school closures due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it meant that the kids would be home all day. And this momma is not one to let a holiday go without a little extra celebration if we have time!
I dug deep into my craft closet and pulled several things together. (Steve sat on the couch and watched me work the night before, with minimal eye-rolling. He knows that I live for this kind of stuff and obliges my creative whims for as long as the kids are little enough to still believe in the magic).
The kids helped me make a rainbow for our window the day before and then Jack set out the Leprechaun Hotel that we made last year. He wasn't able to trick/catch a leprechaun back then, but patiently held onto the hotel in his closet until this year while making a few changes to his plan. (The leprechauns left behind some rainbow-colored Trix cereal for the kids!).
Jack was more determined than ever to catch one of those pesky green guys, so he even set up a second trap:
It turns out ... that ... the leprechaun cut a hole in the side of the box and slid down the vent in the floor right next to the trap.
Jack wasn't too upset about it though because he left behind some skittles for each of the kids under the box.
There was a table set up for the kids when they woke up in the morning, all ready for cinnamon rolls.
Shamrock cinnamon rolls, either with or without green icing:
Everyone wore green, so no one got pinched!
But the best part came even later. After breakfast, I asked Jack to please go in the bathroom and close the lid to the toilet. I even muttered about how 'I don't like to have that lid left open and that everyone knows better ...'
Imagine his surprise and shriek of laughter when he realized that one of the leprechauns must have used the toilet while they were in our house! Oh, the kids could not stop laughing and immediately sent a picture to Steve and a few of their friends.
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