St. Patrick's Day PARENTING! from 9 years ago

[underpants]

St. Patrick stories that my daughter is NOT BUYING - St. Patrick beat all of the snakes in Ireland to death with potatoes.... St. Patrick planted potatoes and the snakes bumped their heads, got knocked out, and starved to death. THEN I told her the actual story which, of course, is much more believable.

[zanana1]

1. Yours makes more sense.

I have seen snakes with potato-bumped heads struggling to survive.

[MontanaMama]

2. My kiddo (now almost 17) believed

in leprechauns longer than he believed in Santa. For the two weeks before St Patrick’s Day, the wee people played tricks on the poor child…they turned the toilet water green, made his bathroom faucet run green, they put all his underpants in the mailbox, somehow they put his bicycle on the roof, they would dump his matchbox airplanes all over the floor of his room, they’d leave him a treat with a bite taken out of it, they would put shamrock stickers on his face while he slept, they’d put his kissy (his blanket) on the ceiling fan where he couldn’t reach it, they left him a box of Lucky Charms with all the marshmallows removed…it went on and on and on. My son would set a trap for them before school each day and those leprechauns would spring the trap, leave a tart note and play a trick on him in return. They were very clever and then on St. Patrick’s Day, the leprechauns would leave him a small gift and a note thanking him for being a good sport, wished him good luck and goodbye until next year.

I miss those days. ☘️

[underpants]

3. That's hilarious

My daughter is 16. When she was 5 I did a thing on Christmas Day in which candy canes kept growing larger in the ground as the day went on. We’d “planted” little ball shaped candy cane flavor candies back around Thanksgiving.

You rock!

[MontanaMama]

4. Oh boy.

I’m filing your candy cane idea away for future reference… possibly for a future grand baby? One must be prepared.

[hermetic]

5. Oh my goodness

That is marvelous. And funny! What a great Mom!!

[MontanaMama]

6. You're very kind, my friend.

I'm good at St. Patrick's Day but I suck at Easter.