pranks – Living, Loving, Laughing….

April Fool’s Day.

Doesn’t it just slip right in and surprise you?

Or maybe you plan for this day and all the tricks you will pull. Like you are twelve…

This day comes with notice at our house.

That’s right.

And with a seven-year-old and almost ten-year-old, there are lots and lots of fooling.

All the F’s & N’s in class today. I choked on my STARR test. I got sent to the principles office. Oh look! I broke my foot! Yep. Right this second. My foot…..it just broke.

Ahhh, the joys of older (but still little foolers).

I decided to pay them back this year!

I planned.

The salt and pepper shakers magically changed colors.

The milk spoiled blue.

The trick is not to notice anything different. The milk is white. The salt is white and pepper is black.

You crazy kids! You don’t know what you are talking about.

Of course, the littlest one ate it up. She really believed we couldn’t see the colors and she was just dumbfounded. Showing us the milk and the shakers. Asking us what color they are.

It was AWESOME!

Then, big sis said, “It’s just food coloring, Bridget.”

Just food coloring…

Huh.

Well, it’s FUN food coloring if you ask me. And maybe they weren’t the biggest pranks of the year. But honestly, it was all I could manage on my lunch hour.

Hope your April Fools was just as fun (and pink and blue sparkly).

Giving me the jeepers!

The time I was almost scared to death.

Let me set the scene.

The players…my gorgeous daughter.

And my sweet girl Salem.

Also, my husband was in on this “plan”.

See how in this photo, the chair has it’s back to the windows. Those windows are the back door. Straight in front the chair is the front door. So, if say…I was SITTING in that chair. I could not see the backdoor, but I could see the front door. And really? I don’t have to worry. The dogs go ballistic when someone comes to the door. Anyone! Even me.

So, imagine me in the chair pictured above. I am watching TV and minding my own biz. The dogs are lounging (remember I have three). Then, they set off to the front door, but not barking. I thought maybe Jason and Sydney got home, they had dropped the little kids at their mom’s. Is it possible they knew it was them and didn’t bark? A miracle!

Turns out they were just doing recon. They just kinda stood around, and didn’t seem to “sense” any presence. My biggest dog, Salem, turns around from the front door to the back door and immediately her hair STANDS ON END. And she starts barking like I have never heard her bark in my life. It’s like paws down, back up, and every muscle tense in fight mode. Her bark is at full roar.

In my mind, I thought… OH MY GOSH, she is barking like someone is at the back door.

That’s when I turn around and I SEE FACES at the backdoor.

I, nearly, lost it.

It was just Sydney.

And Jason.

Laughing at me while I clutched my chest about to keel over.

And that is the time I was MOST startled in my life.

Someday…..I’m going to get them back for that.

2.) Describe a time you felt startled.