My favorite day of the year
Ah, yes........it's April Fool's Day! This day happens to be my favorite day of the year. It also happens to be the day Jeff is most afraid of me. I am notorious for pulling some pretty good pranks on this day, and today proved to be no exception. It started in the middle of the night as I lay in bed waiting not so patiently for Casie to go to sleep so I could begin the hi-jinks. Finally after peeking in her room to see if she was still moving and opening and closing the front door many times I decided the coast was clear. She made it all very simple for me after all. She made the mistake of leaving her keys and her purse on my dresser for the night. No trying to think of excuses to "borrow" her keys from her. I snuck out to her car, unlocked it, and with my big bag of confetti, proceded to fill all of her vents with the colorful stuff, including the defroster vents then turned the vents on high. I was afraid at one point I was going to get caught because as I was in her car, the t.v. in her room went off. When I knew all was clear and I wasn't going to get caught, I snuck back in the house and went to bed.
I woke up to Jeff asking if I knew where her car keys were and I told him they were on the dresser where she had left them last night. She had to take Rick (the boyfriend) to work. I stayed awake for a few minutes waiting to see if she would come running into the house screaming at me, but she didn't so I went back to sleep. I was quite startled about an hour later when she snuck into our room and started spraying us with something I assumed was a water gun. All the while she is yelling at me, "You seem to have forgotten that Walmart was on my way home!" It wasn't a water gun she was squirting us with, it was silly string. And it was all over my bed, me, Jeff, even the ceiling. She said it was quite a shock when she started her car and began to back out of the driveway only to be showered with pretty blue confetti. She dropped Rick off at work, walked into Walmart with confetti still in her hair and bought 2 cans of that awful stuff. She said she was pretty sure the cashier knew why she was buying it when she got a good look at her.
Not to be outdone by silly string I made a trip to Spencers this afternoon. I got the younger ones with some farting gum (they put some herb in it that gives you gas), I got a shocking lighter, and some farting powder (I haven't had a chance to try that one out yet, when I do I'll let you know how it goes).
We met Jeff at Walmart this afternoon to get groceries, and every once in a while I would get a whiff of some awful smell. Thinking it was Taylor since she had some of the gum, we teased her and blamed it on her. It was so bad at one point Jeff was gagging and had to walk away with me laughing so hard I was crying. Come to find out, it wasn't Taylor at all, but it was Casie who had a bad case of gas all day and found the perfect target to blame it on. Jeff took the kids home in the van and Casie and I went to get Rick from work. I remembered the lighter so I took it out of my purse and set it in Casie's console. She picked it up and asked me if it was mine and I told her yes. She asked me how to light it and I told her just flip the top, press on the button and it will light. By this time we are sitting in front of Rick's work, and as I am getting out to see if he is still there, she tries to light the lighter and screams " I hate you Erica!!" I was laughing so hard I had to stop and catch my breath!
I have shortsheeted all the beds in the house. It works on the kids, but Jeff is onto me now and won't let me get away with that. He made sure to check the sheets before he got into bed tonight, but the kids haven't so I'm patiently waiting for someone to start yelling.
One of my all time favorite tricks I played on the kids a couple of years ago. They were both in school, so I made myself useful and switched all their clothes... drawers, closets, everything, into the other's room but left all the furniture the same. It was classic to see their faces when they realised what I had done.
They say laughter is the best medicine, and if it's true I should be in perfect health after today. I think everyday should be April Fool's Day! I can't wait until next year!
Ah, yes........it's April Fool's Day! This day happens to be my favorite day of the year. It also happens to be the day Jeff is most afraid of me. I am notorious for pulling some pretty good pranks on this day, and today proved to be no exception. It started in the middle of the night as I lay in bed waiting not so patiently for Casie to go to sleep so I could begin the hi-jinks. Finally after peeking in her room to see if she was still moving and opening and closing the front door many times I decided the coast was clear. She made it all very simple for me after all. She made the mistake of leaving her keys and her purse on my dresser for the night. No trying to think of excuses to "borrow" her keys from her. I snuck out to her car, unlocked it, and with my big bag of confetti, proceded to fill all of her vents with the colorful stuff, including the defroster vents then turned the vents on high. I was afraid at one point I was going to get caught because as I was in her car, the t.v. in her room went off. When I knew all was clear and I wasn't going to get caught, I snuck back in the house and went to bed.
I woke up to Jeff asking if I knew where her car keys were and I told him they were on the dresser where she had left them last night. She had to take Rick (the boyfriend) to work. I stayed awake for a few minutes waiting to see if she would come running into the house screaming at me, but she didn't so I went back to sleep. I was quite startled about an hour later when she snuck into our room and started spraying us with something I assumed was a water gun. All the while she is yelling at me, "You seem to have forgotten that Walmart was on my way home!" It wasn't a water gun she was squirting us with, it was silly string. And it was all over my bed, me, Jeff, even the ceiling. She said it was quite a shock when she started her car and began to back out of the driveway only to be showered with pretty blue confetti. She dropped Rick off at work, walked into Walmart with confetti still in her hair and bought 2 cans of that awful stuff. She said she was pretty sure the cashier knew why she was buying it when she got a good look at her.
Not to be outdone by silly string I made a trip to Spencers this afternoon. I got the younger ones with some farting gum (they put some herb in it that gives you gas), I got a shocking lighter, and some farting powder (I haven't had a chance to try that one out yet, when I do I'll let you know how it goes).
We met Jeff at Walmart this afternoon to get groceries, and every once in a while I would get a whiff of some awful smell. Thinking it was Taylor since she had some of the gum, we teased her and blamed it on her. It was so bad at one point Jeff was gagging and had to walk away with me laughing so hard I was crying. Come to find out, it wasn't Taylor at all, but it was Casie who had a bad case of gas all day and found the perfect target to blame it on. Jeff took the kids home in the van and Casie and I went to get Rick from work. I remembered the lighter so I took it out of my purse and set it in Casie's console. She picked it up and asked me if it was mine and I told her yes. She asked me how to light it and I told her just flip the top, press on the button and it will light. By this time we are sitting in front of Rick's work, and as I am getting out to see if he is still there, she tries to light the lighter and screams " I hate you Erica!!" I was laughing so hard I had to stop and catch my breath!
I have shortsheeted all the beds in the house. It works on the kids, but Jeff is onto me now and won't let me get away with that. He made sure to check the sheets before he got into bed tonight, but the kids haven't so I'm patiently waiting for someone to start yelling.
One of my all time favorite tricks I played on the kids a couple of years ago. They were both in school, so I made myself useful and switched all their clothes... drawers, closets, everything, into the other's room but left all the furniture the same. It was classic to see their faces when they realised what I had done.
They say laughter is the best medicine, and if it's true I should be in perfect health after today. I think everyday should be April Fool's Day! I can't wait until next year!
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