April Fools Day.

Today is April 1, which, for some people, is also April Fools Day.

It is defined as follows: April 1, in many Western countries is traditionally an occasion for playing tricks. This custom has been observed for hundreds of years, but its origin is unknown.

In my family, it has always been a totally silly day, and we have been able to prank each other some years, in other years we have not, but it’s always been a source of laughter and fun.

I have no idea what was in the water this year, but OMG, April Fools Day was taken to a whole new level.

I am going to try to go chronologically to explain all of the April Fools Pranks that were done today, but there are so many, it may be too complicated. That’s how crazy it has been. In some I’ve been involved, in others, just made aware, but it’s been awesome.

For me, it started last night, when my Poppop, the original April Fools master, called me.

“I need you to help me to pull off my April Fools Joke on your mommy and aunt. Do you know that thing where you can open up pictures of the kids?”

“Do you mean Facebook, Poppop?”

“I don’t know. We get something that says there is a picture and we go on the iPad and see a picture of the kids. So anyway, can you put up something that says, ‘Here is the cutest picture of the kids’ but when they go to look it actually is a caption saying, ‘April Fools from Poppop!'”

I tried to explain to him that what he described is not something that I can do on Facebook (or if I can, I have no idea how), but that I would do a version of his trick.

My day started this morning when I looked at the clock on my phone and the date popped up: April 1.

I said “Bunny Rabbit. Bunny Bunny. Rabbit Rabbit.” for good luck because I don’t know which one is right so I always say them all.

Then I rolled over to my husband and said, “I don’t love you. April Fools!”

My kids are too young to completely prank, but I made them a colorful breakfast so that their day would start with some giggles.

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My next job was to fulfill the duty of pranking my mom and aunt for my Poppop.

The best thing that I was able to come up with was an email with a fake subject line and then the reveal in the body. Not the finest work, I admit.

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Next, a few minutes later, my mom called and asked my daughter for help in fooling my dad.

My daughter, as instructed, called my dad and said, “Zeydie! Guess what? I have a loose tooth! Isn’t that amazing?”

and he played along but I knew that he knew. So we decided to do the ever-popular-in-our-family-fool-back.

My daughter then called back my mom and said,

“Bubbie! Zeydie believed me and he is so excited that he is coming over now to see my wiggly tooth!”

My mom totally bought it.

April Fools!

My parents both got each other in very big ways involving their respective jobs. They had some very high ranking business people and politicians involved (my husband had a hand in the prank for my dad) and it was the first time that they were both successful.

This was all before 10am.

The next message that I got was from my dad, in his effort to fool my sister.

He teamed up with her beau to make it look like my dad had sent him a guilt-trip filled, completely inappropriate and embarrassing email about my sister, which he would then forward to my sister with the words, “Uhhhh…..”

Which would mortify her.

She claims that she picked up on it quickly, BUT she was fooled for a bit, as she sent her guy a reply about how they should handle the awkward situation.

April Fools!

It was at this point that I started to feel a bit jealous. I had been a part or made aware of so many pranks before noon, yet no one was even attempting to prank me.

At 2pm, as my daughter was eagerly anticipating the arrival of our babysitter, I received the nicest, most apologetic text message from her saying that she had to stay at school unexpectedly and that she felt terrible. It had sad face emojis.

I told her not to worry, and then tried to do damage control with my daughter by calling my mom.

“Mom? Can you come help me with the kids tonight?”

She asked me why, I told her how the sitter had cancelled, we talked about how I would need help, but how a big part of my desire to have her here was to assuage my daughter’s sadness about not having a “special-date”.

Two minutes into the conversation, my mom told me that my daughter would be fine because the babysitter would be there.

“No, mom, she is not coming, she had to cancel.”

“No she didn’t!” She replied. “April Fools!”

They got me. They got me good.

We then turned this around to fool my grandparents.

My daughter called their house, sounding melancholy.

“Mommom, hi. How are you? How are you feeling? I’m ok. I’m just bored. I have no one to play with.”

Mommom, of course, offered to come over until my daughter shouted, “April Fools!” with glee.

Another family member fooled. Check!

 There was only one person who had remained unscathed by this day and it was my husband, so I decided that I needed to, somehow, get him pranked.

I asked my daughter for ideas.

“I know,” she said. “Let’s call him and tell him that the baby is turning into a dog.”

I needed a bit more help.

Fortunately, he has the best, most awesome assistant, and she put a fake meeting in his calendar that would have been very inconvenient.

But, he didn’t notice.

So I called him.

I had a long conversation with him and every two minutes I would bring up something about the calendar or his schedule. I even asked him to remove something from this evening’s calendar. Still, he said nothing.

Finally, I had to say, “I don’t see the events right, what does your calendar say?”

And he said, without a hint of emotion, “The only thing I have left on my calendar is this meeting but I have to cancel it anyway.”

“April Fools!”

So, technically yes, I got him, but that was the most anti-climatic prank ever. I fooled him, but it involved something about which he couldn’t have cared less. Oh well. At least we tried. And I made sure to tell my husband that he was not to give his assistant an ounce of grief. I made her do it.

Our last trick of the day was when my sister called my daughter.
“Guess what? I dyed my hair pink,” she said.

My daughter bought it, fully.

April Fools!

Now, I realize that it is not even 5pm, so I have a suspicion that more pranks will be pulled before day’s end, but so far so good.

Really good.

This was my most fun April Fools Day in memory and, as always, it makes me feel blessed to have the people around me whom I call my family.

Oh. By the way. A robber came into my house today. It was awful. He did not take any valuables but he stole ALL of my Peeps.

April Fools!

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