Today's Quote

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

William Ralph Inge

A Foolin' Dinner

April Fools started off with shouts of joy and lots of bad jokes. As soon as my husband and I explained what day it was and that it was a day for jokes and nice tricks, my comedian was in seventh heaven. The boys even helped me pull a pretty good trick on their dad.

I haven't been feeling very good and both of the older boys had school this morning so when I got home from dropping them off I called my husband and told him that the baby was taking a nap and I was going to lay down and sleep too, so could he please call me at 11:00 to wake me up so I could pick up the boys on time. I promptly fell asleep and was zoned out to the world. I opened my eyes to see 11:20 blaring at me in bright red lights from the alarm clock (Mr. Engineer is supposed to be picked up at 11:20 and Comedian at 11:30 and his school is about 15 minutes away from the first one--confusing I know). So I jumped out of bed, woke the baby who was also still enjoying his quiet snooze and raced to pick up the boys. I was a little late but not too bad. We got back home around noon and I asked the boys if they wanted to help me play a joke on their dad. So I called dh on the cell phone with the speakers on and told him that I had just woke up and could he help me pick up the boys. (I made sure I sounded nice and groggy) He apologized half a dozen times and first told me he'd pick up one boy and then changed his mind that he would pick up the other one. I help up my fingers for the boys and when I got to 3 they yelled, "APRIL FOOLS!" I think my husband was relieved and a tiny bit miffed that I'd gotten him so good. It was pretty good fun though.

Well it was my night to cook for the dinner coop I belong to and it just happened to be April Fools day too. So I was looking around for something to do for this auspicious occasion and came across this yummy recipe for Fauxberry Pie from Family Fun. It received some mixed reviews. *smile* My Engineer gave the frosting a "thumbs down" until we told him that they were just pink potatoes. My comedian asked enthusiastically to "have pie every night". DJ Thunder was quite impressed and went quite wild taking pictures and exclaiming "how real" it looks and how surprisingly "good it tastes".






Both of the families I swapped with enjoyed the meal although a 10 year old was not even going to try the "chocolate" part because he "hates chocolate". Even being told that it tasted like BBQ beef would entice him to take even one bite because he was sure that his family was just trying to pull one over on him.

I hope you also had an awesome April Fools day. Sometimes it is nice to relax and just have fun pulling pranks and teasing each other.