I'm tempted to write a spoof piece for April Fool's Day, perhaps telling my readers about winning the lottery or some such fantasy that would be fun to recount as truth. But instead I'm going to reminisce about the April Fool's Day tricks we used to play on my husband when the kids were young.
Every year on April Fool's Day I would get the kids dressed and fed and ready for school after their father left for work. As was our tradition, he would run home from work at 7:30 to pick them up and drop them off at school, since I usually had a baby or toddler at home which made it more difficult for me to do the deed. Since he had that flexibility it made my life easier.
Anyway, as soon as they were ready to go I'd get them on the couch, under the blankets and ready to play their parts like the pros that they already were. We are a theater family, after all, and no part is too small for a true theater lover! When he arrived to pick them up he'd come in the back door and there they would be, under their blankets and looking as sad and sick as their little thespian selves could. "They're all sick" I would announce, to which he would stop dead in his tracks every year, look at them incredulously, and say "ALL of them???" For a few delicious minutes the kids and I would carry on this charade as he asked all the pertinent questions such as "Do they have fevers?" and "Has anyone thrown up?" But before long one of more of them would start giggling and then the joke was over.
Now this really got better every year. Because every year they became better actors and every year it became more and more amazing to me that he never once caught on.
It's been many years since we pulled our April Fool's joke on my dear husband but the memories are still there and every year they make me smile. And I wish I still had those kids laying on the couch under the blankets to laugh with.
Every year on April Fool's Day I would get the kids dressed and fed and ready for school after their father left for work. As was our tradition, he would run home from work at 7:30 to pick them up and drop them off at school, since I usually had a baby or toddler at home which made it more difficult for me to do the deed. Since he had that flexibility it made my life easier.
Anyway, as soon as they were ready to go I'd get them on the couch, under the blankets and ready to play their parts like the pros that they already were. We are a theater family, after all, and no part is too small for a true theater lover! When he arrived to pick them up he'd come in the back door and there they would be, under their blankets and looking as sad and sick as their little thespian selves could. "They're all sick" I would announce, to which he would stop dead in his tracks every year, look at them incredulously, and say "ALL of them???" For a few delicious minutes the kids and I would carry on this charade as he asked all the pertinent questions such as "Do they have fevers?" and "Has anyone thrown up?" But before long one of more of them would start giggling and then the joke was over.
Now this really got better every year. Because every year they became better actors and every year it became more and more amazing to me that he never once caught on.
It's been many years since we pulled our April Fool's joke on my dear husband but the memories are still there and every year they make me smile. And I wish I still had those kids laying on the couch under the blankets to laugh with.
3 comments:
Me thinks thine husband hath a bit of thespian in himself! ;-)
Wrong! He was truly surprised, believe me!
I was always surprised....But was on my guard today...
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