Tip for Other Clueless Moms

I didn't get the Mommy Memo that the Leprechaun has joined the Exclusive Club comprised of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny & the Tooth Fairy.

But clearly, 1st graders know this.

Yes, I did help Aidan conceive of and build a fancy Leprechaun trap. (Of which I failed to take a picture: a big piece of cardboard with a plastic St Patty's day hat glued on it, with a hole cut in the top of the hat only accessible by a glittered ladder made of a lasanga noodle. Sweet! Aidan truly did most of the non-sharp object work. I will not be one of those moms who does the whole freaking project in a fit of elementary school parental competitiveness. Now that it's written here, I have to live by that.)

And yes, I did help with this project after reading a goldenrod memo from his teacher about making the trap in order to help catch those fiesty little Irish creatures.

But I did NOT realize that Aidan and the other kids thought these leprechauns were real!!

I picked Aidan up from school yesterday and he excitedly starts telling me about what the leprechauns did in their classroom and other 1st grade rooms - moved chairs around, switched their centers, shifted books, etc. He said how some coins were left behind, but no one in their class managed to build a trap good enough to catch one but the rumor is a different class might have snagged one. Haha, I thought - how cute. But then he kept on talking about how big they were, where they live (apparantly, with the Tooth Fairy) and more when it dawned on me - this kid believes in leprechauns, just like he (blissfully) still believe in the other trio.

I was < thisclose > to blowing it just before I made this discovery of his belief, which might have made for a less than exciting Easter season in this house since I'd surely call into question all of these other characters that only a child can believe in.

I know this is a little late for 2009, but it's my tip to you for 2010!!