Throwback Thursday: How to make your own leprechaun money

For St. Patrick’s Day this year, The Five-Year-Old and I decided to make our own leprechaun money.

Wordless Wednesday: The Aftermath

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Merry Christmas!

We still can’t quite believe it really happened. Thanks for reading Caterpickles this year. Related Links: More Christmas posts on Caterpickles Santa posts on Caterpickles

Wordless Wednesday: Just four more sleeps until Christmas

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Caterpickles thinks too much about Christmas carols: “How do you troll an ancient Yuletide carol?”

Thanks for turning in for another special holiday edition of Caterpickles thinking too hard about holiday songs. This week, we’re wondering just what it means to “troll an ancient Yuletide carol.”

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year-old reviews Niall and the Stone of Destiny, a biography of King Niall, a 5th century High King of Ireland, by Lance MacNeill, and Stowaway in a Sleigh by C. Roger Mader.

Wordless Wednesday: Quiet time on Wooded Isle

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Caterpickles thinks too much about Christmas carols: “What’s a bobtail?”

There’s nothing like seeing the lyrics of traditional holiday songs projected in giant letters on a screen in a school auditorium for making you realize just how weird they are. I mean, there I stood, trilling merrily about jingle bells and sleigh rides when all of a sudden I realized I had absolutely no idea what “bells on bobtails ring” even meant.

santa claus climbing into the chimney on a snowy roof

Classic Caterpickles: “How old is Santa?”

Determining how old Santa is depends on who you think Santa is. In this post, we provide the ages of the top 6 Santa contenders: Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Santa Claus, Albert Einstein, the Norse god Odin, and of course, Kris Kringle.