How it came that my daughter needed a Non-Human folder in her email…

10 04 2008

Last year, sometimes in February, my girls started getting these really weird emails from Leprechaun Sullivan. They were written backwards and to my 12 year old sounded like some kind of joke my brother would play on them. Well, Sully (as he called himself) wanted to know if he would still be welcome at our house on St. Patrick’s Day. My (then) 10 year old, said sure, come on over. Miss Life12, on the other hand, was more like: who the heck are you?, and after several emails she was inclined to believe that he was just a creep with no life of its own and way too much time to spend in front of a computer screen. Although she did get a little freaked out when Sully said he will show her what he thinks of non-believers when he’ll come over to turn the milk green for Miss Life10. Well, that was the end of the emails and we almost forgot all about it until the morning of St. Patrick’s Day when our house was obviously visited by a leprechaun. The milk turned green, as it usually happens on this day, but this time there was more. In the bathroom, there was a backwards message on the counter written with my green Bath & Body Works soap saying ‘Sully was here’ (it was conveniently located next to the mirror, so easy to read it) Then, the table was decorated in green and a box of Lucky Charms was placed in the middle of it. There seemed to be green & gold glitter all over the house, but the best thing was that Miss Life12’s room was TPed in the middle of the night. The girls share a room, but only Miss Life12’s half was covered in green and white crepe paper. It kinda matched her room since her walls are lime green and teal. Miss Life10’s are pink and purple. So, while they were both asleep, Sully was busy redecorating half of the room. I was taking pictures of all this the next morning, when to our surprise, what did we find in the closet tangled up in the green wire that was stretched all over the ceiling, but a tiny little leprechaun. We found out later that one of the girls must’ve woken up while he was in the middle of his naughty trick, which made him freeze into a toy-looking leprechaun. And he decided that, since we have caught sight of him, nothing will please us better than to have him over a few days more. The girls took to him right away, Miss Life12 going so far as to get him a comfortable chair and bed and tucking him in at night with a glass of water next to him, cause you never know when a leprechaun might get thirsty. I guess I was the only one that was a little freaked out by the fact that he looked just like a shrunk up little old man. But then I got so used to his looks, that I got quite fond of his sharp nose and naughty twinkle in his eyes. (To be continued…)