Happy one day late Saint Patrick's Day everyone! St. Patrick's Day is one of those "holidays" I'm not quite sure what to do with. Sure, we wear green and generally eat something green and/or made with potatoes, and last year we even had a history lesson on who St. Patrick really was (they still remembered all about him this year, so I didn't see any reason to repeat THAT idea!). But what else, I wondered, can you do to have a little fun with this day..... just for the hecuvit?!
Then I read about Kim's great St. Patty's day tradition. It involves getting a visit from a seemingly deranged leprechaun. He comes to your house, rearranges all your furniture in a nonsensical kind of way, and maybe even drops a few treasures for you to find.
Of course, I didn't read her post until it was already St. Patrick's day morning--but I thought I could still make it work for us. After a quick trip to the store, I had all the boys play out back while I "leprechauned" our house. They had a great time searching out the treasure:
The leprechaun did a fine job of messing up our living room..... but it looks like he forgot that mint chocolate ice cream on top of the big upturned ottoman! (see it?) Finders, Keepers Mr. Leprechaun!
Oh!--looks like he got the family room too. And left a box of Lucky Charms next to our milk that he turned green!
And LUCKY US!--He even left his pot of gold behind!!! Who knew it was made of chocolate?
(He also"tinkled" green (food coloring) in our toilet--which the kids got a huge kick out of, but which I'll spare you the picture of :)!).
I think Ethan summed it all up when he said "I thought today was going to be boring, but now I think St. Patrick's day is actually pretty fun!".
I thought so too! Thanks for the new tradition Kim!
13 comments:
That is so funny and the green pee is the best!!!! When my husband and I were dating, I went to his house on St. Patrick's Day and his family has the same tradition. But I had NEVER heard of it up until then so I thought his family was completely nuts!!!!
I'm with the kids: what a fun mom you are!
how fun is that?!
AND your blog played an Irish jig when I turned it on!
-steph
Cailean,
I'd never heard of the tradition either, but we're keeping it!
Emily,
You're making me blush ;)!
Steph,
Glad you liked my Irish jig! We've been dancing to it all morning!
Ok, I am storing all of that away for next year. Those are GREAT ideas. I did know about turning things upside down, but I love the green milk and pee pee water and lucky charms and oh just everything. Nice touch with the Irish jig, too!
Glad the leprachauns found your house! They found us too, but our house was already in such disaray they didn't mess it any worse (thankfully), they just dropped some chocolate coins and kept on going.
That sounds like SUCH a fun day!
I left you a bit of bling on my blog...come see!!
♥ Great idea's! We never do anything on st.patty's day! Pretty boring. ;)
Debbie,
So glad people liked the green tinkle! I was afraid it might gross people out--but that's just the kind of stuff 3,8, and 10 year olds think is funny!
Elena,
I had a few rooms that didn't need any further messing too!
Laura,
Picked it up--thanks :)!
Serious,
We were boring too--but this was a fun 15 minutes!
Oh, he did a great job! WOw, he even placed the milk and ice cream out......he is pesky isn't he?
We always have fun with it, I'm so glad your boys enjoyed it.
That is great!! Just great!! I'm prining this off to use for next year!
Just trying out my new "e" to see if it really comes up. I think I figured it out. :-) Oh, and I also saw a place where you add authors to the blog, maybe you could do that for Zane's.
This is cute!
I got a book and two clever (and kitchy) retro 1950's elf ornaments for christmas-- it's a similar game, the elves cause a little havoc and leave treats around at christmas time. I can't wait to do it next year.
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