If you?re the kind of mom that sets leprechaun traps, I?m sorry but we can?t be friends.
No idea what a leprechaun trap is" Head on over to Pinterest; by the time you?ve hit LEP? the autocomplete will take you to endlessly scrolling pages of green glitter and gold coin bedazzled crafting nonsense.
The basic premise is this: You craft some kind of elaborate looking trap that you then convince your children has the potential to tempt a leprechaun and then contain him until the morning so that they can see this magical creature in the flesh. But, you say, doesn?t that lead to disappointment when they don?t catch one" Pinterest moms have that covered.
You just use the same tactics as you do with Elf on the Shelf leaving twee green footprints around, eating the Lucky Charms you left as bait, or filling the toilet with green ?pee? with a green footprint on each side of the seat. Unfortunately, I?m not making this up, this is faked-up festivity gone mad, everything we mock about Pinterest times a thousand. (Kudos BTW to the mom who posted the leprechaun trap on Pinterest that was just a laundry basket held up with a stick, the bait a piece of crumpled green paper in a plastic flowerpot. We probably could be friends.) Photo: Pinterest
Harmless fun right" No. Frankly I don?t need more mom performance anxiety on my exhausted shoulders. I can barely manage to remember to stick a toonie under my children?s pillows for the tooth fairy. For anyone who thinks I?m a curmudge...