Today was St. Patrick's day. As always, Mimi made up a little gift set for each of the kids to celebrate. This year they all got 5 gold dollar coins, a mini pot and shamrock seeds, and some Lucky Charms chapstick. They all seemed pretty pleased with their haul.

Seamus, however, decided he wanted a little more.

I saw the loot before I left for the morning, and before the kids were up. So I didn’t' get to see their reactions.

When I got home I noticed there was a little mess in the family room. A bunch of pencils on the ground, someone's gold dollar coins, some other homemade money, a decorated cup and other items. Looking more closely I could see that the pencils were in a bit of a pattern. They all seemed to be set down such that they were pointing at the cup. Next to the cup was a festively decorated sign that read Leprechauns Welcome!

I asked Mimi about it. She said "Oh, that's Seamus' Leprechaun trap!"

What??

Well it seems he figured that ol' Lep had plenty more gold coins and he wanted some of that action. So instead of chasing down a rainbow that didn't currently exist he'd set a trap and have the fairy come to him. Ingenious! And very nicely executed.

I was so impressed that after he went to bed I had Mimi track down our little plastic leprechaun and I put him under the cup.

I wasn't there when he came down in the morning, but I'm dying to hear the reaction!