Both kids were down for the night. At least I thought so. I walked down the hall toward our bedroom to climb into bed when Lily spotted me and said in a whisper-shout, "Mom, come here!" She started by asking for a small drink of water, which I got for her and she gulped down. She then proceeded to tell me that her Unicorn pillow pet's birthday (her name is Amelia) is tomorrow, and that her party is a night party (unlike her friend Kai's party, which is really tomorrow morning) and, in fact, a slumber party. Amelia is 10 years old, and she's asked for a friend to play with for her birthday, one that is just a little bit younger than she is...then Lily informed me that her stuffed cat, named Lucifer, is actually 100 years old. "Can you believe that?", she asked me. I told her that I found that truly amazing. Then I told her it was time to go to sleep, as she has a big day ahead of her. I wished her a good night, and a Happy St. Patrick's Day, as I'll be at work when she wakes up in the morning.
I love listening to Lily right before bed and right after she wakes up in the morning; those times are when her imagination is most vivid.
Ten minutes later, I hear a knock on my bathroom door while I'm brushing my teeth. It's Lily, and her eyes are as bright as they get on Christmas morning. This time, she tells me about her friends Patrick and Jacqueline at school and how they put out a school art project for a leprechaun to come to their house and bring them a treasure. All I'm thinking is "holy moly, please don't be asking me to get crafty after 9pm when you should be sleeping". She continues, and I'd swear she's emphasizing her blinks xso that I can't say no to those big blue eyes. She tells me that they made the project at school, so we retriever her backpack. We placed her decorated leprechaun, the gold-glittered shamrock and her note to the leprechaun on one of the green plastic kids' stools in the living room, since, as I reasoned, the leprechaun would prefer it be on a green stool over the blue one. I felt as though we were setting out cookies for Santa, yet was wondering what in the heck this "leprechaun" was going to bring, as this was just sprung on it. She also asked whether or not I thought the leprechaun was going to pee in her bathroom again, as he has for the past 2 years (green food coloring in the toilet and we have an instant leprechaun visitor). I told her that he probably would, because he likes to stop at all of the green houses (which ours is) and pee. They are his favorite. She got excited and said, "what if the leprechaun walked into my room and saw my walls??? They're green! He'd probably kiss them and want to marry them!" I shook my head, smiled at Lily and told her she'd better get to bed so the leprechaun can come.
I remembered that we have an unopened bag of Jelly Belly jelly beans in the kitchen, so I scurried downstairs to my crafty stuff and obtained a small circular box to put them in, so they appear to have arrived by way of a small leprechaun. I told Brian, "See? all of my seemingly useless crafty stuff just came in handy!"
I work tomorrow at 6am, but before I leave the house, I'll be leaving a little treasure by the note on the table and dropping some green food coloring in the kids' toilet.
Then it'll be off to serve up coffee for the day in my little green apron!
HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!!!
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