Gold With No Green

aka "Winning the Moment but Losing the Day" "

but also...

aka "Doing Our Best"

We try to do right by holidays in our household.  Today was St. Patrick's Day and the morning brought magic, but I am afraid to say the holiday as a whole really didn't get the weight it deserved.  The shutting down of schools, and restaurants and social interactions make for some interruptions in how we usually try to do things around here. 

The girls set up their Leprechaun traps with arrows throughout the house in hopes that this year would be the one that they wake up to a little green-hatted irishman trapped inside the rainbow painted cardboard contraption.  Cheyenne says the legend is that if you trap a leprechaun, he will undoubtedly offer up a fortune of gold in exchange for his release.

Well they got close, they did indeed trick and trap the little fellow, but he had his trusty knife on him and was able to carve out a little door as an escape.  Because of their gallant efforts, he left each of them a little vile of REAL gold and said they earned it, but that he is far too wily and clever to actually be caught for long.

It was an early morning of excitement of the earned gold, disappointment to have been so close and not prevailed, and then we got dressed and paid no attention to the other things that St. Patrick's Day usually brings.  None of us even intentionally put on green or did any pinching or wishing luck.  We went about the day until the evening arrived and we realized that besides the first 15-20 minutes of the morning, this holiday that the girls have literally been preparing for and talking about for weeks and weeks, passed us by without another mention.  As the Leprechaun put it at the end of his note -- Better luck next year.  

Although not green or gold or Irish in any way, this was another winning moment of the day