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April Fool’s Pranks….

My kids asked me the night before April Fool’s Day if I would be going into my closet before I went to bed for any reason.

 
I couldn’t think of why I would be going in there. I keep my sleep turtle-neck, footed flannels and night vision goggles under my pillow so no, I could say with certainty, I had no reason to go into my closet before going to bed.

 
A few minutes after they asked me the first time, they asked again.

 
Then they asked if Greg had any reason to go in there.

 
Then they asked Greg if I had any reason to go in there.

 
Then they confirmed with both of us neither of us had any reason to set foot, look into or even think about going into that closet.

 
At this point, the only reason I could think of to go in there was to spoil their April Fool’s Day surprise so I assured them, we would not be going into the closet (unless it was so Greg could hide in there and eat their Halloween candy).

 
When I woke up yesterday morning, I showered at 6am and at 6:13am I walked into the closet and opened my underwear drawer. Good trick. It’s empty.

 
Then I opened my sock drawer. Also empty. Hmmmmm.

 
At 6:14am I walked into Ellie’s room and shouted, “Hey, where’s my underwear?”

 
I’m not going to lie to you, she was startled, confused and wasn’t sure what day it was. I could have handled that better.

 
Then I asked Hanna who sat perched at the foot of her bed like she’d been sitting there smugly from the moment she stole my underwear until the moment she would deny it to my face.

 
We “found” my clothes wrapped in a giant blanket under Hanna’s bed. I later explained to the girls (after high fiving them for being hilarious) that it took me a long time to organize everything and get it back into the right drawers.

 
Hanna said, “Really? Because it didn’t look like you spent much time putting it in the first time.” Noted—it was due for a re-org.

 
The kids seemed disappointed Greg & I hadn’t done anything to trick them before school.

 
I quickly told them to change into their colour day t-shirts and lied about a school photo being taken.

 

All three shoved the t-shirts in their bags and said, “If we need them, they’ll be in our bags.”

 
Off they went to school with the worst parents ever so I googled some tried and true ways to prank your kids on April Fool’s Day.

 
Suggestions included things like, “wrap an elastic band around your faucet so water sprays everywhere when your kids turn it on.” Um, that sounds messy! What if it hits a wall and eventually mold grows there? How is that even funny?

 
“Carefully place plastic wrap across your toilet bowl so when your child pees, it will go everywhere.”

 

Um, that sounds disgusting. What if they aren’t sitting on the toilet to pee? That sounds unsanitary and like it might stick with them (or to them) for life.

 
Oh I get it! April Fool’s Day is an excuse for people to be disgusting!

 
I placed a couple of drops of blue food colouring in our giant jug of water to colour it, oh I’m going to call it, clear with a hint of clear(ish) if you turned it directly at the sun.

 
Nobody noticed.

 
I am the worst.

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