April Fools

No one was home much today. The children were both at school, and Kent and I both worked. I certainly didn't attempt to play any tricks on anyone at the bank, and I'm confident Kent and Brandt didn't try anything either.

Blythe, however, is a different story. When I returned home from work, I put down my stuff and Blythe called to me from her bedroom. I went up and greeted her, and she said, "I made brownies. They are in the oven." 

"Yum!" I replied. "I love brownies." It didn't really smell like brownies, but Blythe had been home hours longer than I, so I didn't think much about it.

I went back downstairs to begin dinner and opened the fridge to discover puffballs ALL OVER! The brightly colored orbs were in every drawer, on every shelf, spread all over. I burst out laughing! What a funny trick. I'm certain I'll be finding puffballs for weeks. (*post edit: I did, indeed, find a rogue puffball on April 22, way in the back of the fridge.) I pulled out what I needed, then turned to start the oven. I opened it to pull out the brownies, and made another discovery. Blythe had made brown Es, NOT brownies. They were in the oven, but they hadn't been baked there. More laughing! 

I needed something from the pantry, opened the door, and a bin full of plasticware leapt from the shelf, landed on the floor, and scattered plasticware all over. Blythe had rigged the bin with rubber bands, attached it to the spice rack on the door so that when the pantry door was opened, the bin would be pulled off the shelves. Even more laughing! I was watching out now.  I discovered additional puffballs in all the glasses in the cupboard, none of which would make a positive addition to whatever we were going to drink.

I discovered Blythe's last trick in the corner cupboard when I reached for the butter dish. Instead of an inviting stick of soft butter, I found a blob of shortening. Much less tempting to spread over the bread we were going to eat for dinner. Blythe's April fools were certainly tricky and very funny!

Post edit: I found the last puffball in the refrigerator on July 9.

April Fool's Day

For several days, the children have been making pranking plans.  April Fool's has a certain appeal to the young, and this year in particular, both Brandt and Blythe wanted to make the most of their day to get people.  Blythe was so keen to get started, she set her alarm clock to go off at 5:00am.  I have no idea what she was wanting to do, but I turned the alarm off before I went to bed because no one was going to have a good day if Blythe was up that early.  When she did eventually wake at 7:30, she came downstairs mad!  She demanded to know why I had turned off her alarm, but I was unrepentant.  April Fools to her!

Throughout the day, there were prank attempts made.  Brandt and Blythe tried to fool us by covering the toilet bowl with plastic wrap, but they left the box on the bathroom counter (a place where I never leave the plastic wrap), and they didn't smooth the plastic wrap enough to make it not show, or smooth it down around the bowl under the seat.  It was a noble effort that fell short.  Later, they put tape over the loo faucet.  Blythe forgot, however, and sprayed herself with water when she went to wash.  That reminded Brandt that he should do it to the kitchen faucet, but when I turned it on, it just shot backwards and didn't get me wet at all.

Kent even tried to get in on the action.  He purchase large plastic spiders at the Dollar Store on his way home from work, and put them in everyone's bed.  He put them on our pillows, then covered them up a bit, but when we pulled back the covers, the spiders came with them, and none of us saw them.  He, too, was very disappointed. 

I didn't try to fool anyone.  Maybe I was the smartest of the bunch this year.