Last year, I introduced my children to a good April Fool’s day joke.
This year, they needed no help. Liberty googled it.
We had spiders drawn on toilet paper, water sprayers rubber-banded open, dry erase marker on the television screen’s glass, tape on the computer mouse light so it wouldn’t work, and blue food coloring in the milk. Liberty got Eden with the sprayer band trick and then forgot it was there… and got herself. ( I may have helped that one along by sending her to fill Ellie’s cup. But… it worked.) Eden emptied Ruby’s pj’s drawer and replaced the clothes with pens. I have no idea what the pens meant. I put my foot down when I caught Eden stealing every single light bulb out of every light fixture in the whole house.
I stayed out of the mess for the most part. I did hand a few of my children an earthworm while asking them to put it away. I got a scream out of Liberty. Pierce looked mildly panicked. Charlotte nonchalantly took it outside.
Sometimes my children surprise me. If I was going to guess the one that was not going to get riled up about it, Charlotte would not have been my guess.
I made Chicken Divan for supper – with the milk Eden had put food coloring in.
Joke’s on Eden, I’m thinking.
Just before bedtime, I finally put a stop to the jokes. I said everything had to be joke-free from here on out.
It took them ten minutes to go undo all their doings.
Seems all and all your family had a fun April 1st.
Oh, man, I don’t know if I’m ready for that yet! Maybe next year…..maybe. It seems we have enough craziness without anyone doing it on purpose. But I suppose it makes some good laughs…..and screams! I’m not sure if that kind of thing is meant to keep me young or just add to the strands of gray in my hair! lol
I’m pretty sure I gained more gray yesterday. Keep them in the dark as long as possible. 🙂
Hahaha-sounds like a plan! I remember some pretty awful stuff we did to my mom involving a dead copperhead in her dresser drawer (one of my brothers-of course!)and a bucket of water on top of the door that fell right on her head upside down (more of my brother’s ideas). Yeah, now that I think about it, poor Mom! Maybe I should give her a call…..and No Wonder she has all that gray hair!!!
I thought they were all well thought out, funny and not mean pranks. The perfect April Fools Day!