Leprechauns and Easter bunnies
22.05.12
My five siblings, who are scattered across the country, periodically create new opportunities to revert to birth-order roles of teasing, nagging and bragging through strings of text messages.
Our latest banter began on St. Patrick’s Day morning in response to my sister’s electronic picture of leprechaun invasions. Her kids were delighted to find the milk and pancakes had turned green and little green footprints were left on the toilet seat, proving that even leprechaun’s bodily fluids, when not flushed properly, are green as well.
I responded with pictures of my two youngest children who spent their entire Saturday morning constructing leprechaun traps with masking tape, gold rocks and any household item that was green.
Two of my brothers, who are indignant by choice, feigned to be flabbergasted. Those boys who were raised and loved by the very same parents, who plagued Grandpa’s Easter egg hunts with relentless competiveness and who loved Santa’s visits on Christmas morning as much as the rest of us, had suddenly gone to the dark side of holiday festiveness.
Source: Deseret News