April 2, 2002
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April Fool's
What is it about parents that we just can't resist messing with our kids' heads? As far as I'm concerned this is one of the top ten best reasons to have kids around - it's just fun.
Supper last night was April Fool's. I told the kids that in honor of April and Spring we were having dessert (cake) first with dinner (stir fry) after. They were thrilled. They even asked for candles on the cake - so I obliged them. We sang "Happy April to you, Happy April to you, the Winter is over, Happy April to you."
Then I served the cake. It was meatloaf "frosted" with mashed potatoes. The stir fry was made of cookies, cashews, and fruit roll-ups shaped to look like pea pods and peppers. There are photo's on my Husband's site. But we missed the best picture of all. When Michael bit into the "cake" . . .
Someone on Fugitive's site was talking about establishing a "therapy jar" as a savings bank to pay for the therapy our kids will need . . . After I'm done laughing, I'll make a contribution.
Comments (20)
I checked out your hubby's site... it really does look like a cake!
It's me with the therapy jar!
Great idea with the dinner, BTW.
I just went and saw the pictures--that was so damned creative! I would've thought it was cake, too, lol. Poor lil fella--you do know you're cultivating a demon don't you? LOL He'll get you back for that one, I know.
How fun!!!!!
I just saw the pictures and they are so great! You are very creative and very funny! I love this!
Thank you for saying hi to my brother! I hope he doesn't tell too many bad stories on me!!
Wow, what a fun mom you are!
You are disturbed ..... I am putting $ away for your children's therapy sessions.
awesome... what a great idea...
LOL I was watching America's Funniest Home Video and these parents were just BAD!! I am still laughing though... their kids had a sleep-over and they watched The Halloween/Freddie movies (they were like 5 and 7) and so in the morning, dad puts on the Freddie or maybe Jason mask and brings up a chainsaw and starts it up in the kids room... oh you should have seen those poor kids trying to crawl under the bed and out the window... I felt bad for them but giggles afterwards...
Now I think about it, the very first books that my mother read to me were the "Janet & John" series. (I don't know if they are known in the U.S....but they are big in England.) My mother taught me to read before I even entered school - at the age of five. (I could read to myself at about four.)
I remember well, my mother trying to teach me to read young...and my father laughing at me because I couldn't read properly yet...and refusing to help my mother with the process. (He would say: "That's what we pay our taxes for...to let the schools teach our children.") So, he didn't participate.
I bet I learnt to read far younger than he did!
Whooo this is one of those WHY didn't I think of that?! LOL
So, did the boys think it was funny at all?
LOL!!!
lol that is a fantastic idea, and if kids are eating their greens while under the presumption they are having desert that can only be a good thing. Sounds like a breakthrough to me.
Mean, mean, mean! (I'm speaking of my laughter, of course!)
God Bless - Dale
Now that's a great one!! LOL
You can find both books of John's on Amazon - but, a direct link to "In His Own Write" is here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684868075/qid=1017800056/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-2572487-1946402
I agree. That's a great reason to have kids. Next year we'll do the cake. This year we just tricked Dad with a Jack-in-the-box.
I love it!!!
Great looking banner btw...
that explains a LOT...............
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