April Fools' Day

Rebecca and I love April Fools' Day, but for some reason our kids don't like it as much. We usually like to play some type of joke on our children, and then lots of time some type of joke on our family members. I often try to get in a joke on Rebecca too, but that is often hard because after 10+ years together she has come to expect it.

This year we weren't all that creative. We tried to think of a few ideas, but nothing was really coming to us. On Fridays we do pancakes for breakfast and pizza for dinner in our home. So on April Fool's Day we tried to do pizza for breakfast. They were giant pancakes with raspberry jam for the pizza sauce, coconut and almond bark shavings for the cheese, and chocolate chips and marshmallows for the toppings. It didn't fool the kids at all, but they thought it was a good try. For Julia and Ethan's lunch (Christian doesn't have school on Fridays) I put some spaghetti noodles in with their sandwiches and cut their apples in the shape of eyeballs with a chocolate chip for the pupil. They did not like it at all. They said all the other kids at their tables were reading their notes and saying gross, that they were going to barf, and making weird faces. Right when they got home Rebecca had to listen to them complain about it for a few minutes, but by the time I got home they had softened up some. Little do they know that all their complaining only made me want to do something way worse for next year. I better start thinking of some ideas right now.