Not a Joker

Happy April Fools Day! I have to tell you, I've never been much of a fan. I think it's great in theory, but I don't really like practical jokes (and why do they call them practical, anyway? am I the only person that thinks this doesn't make sense?). Maybe because I'm not very good at executing them. I pretty bad at it actually. One year my cousin and I baked cookies with just salt in them and tried to give them to our brothers, but it didn't really take. I think our willingness to bring them cookies and our giggling gave it away.

Then a few years ago before my husband and I were trying( oh, those wonderful, naive days!), I thought I had finally come up with a good one. My cousin, who I called quite regularly, had this habit of immediately asking if I was pregnant when I called. She still does that sometimes, actually, though it's not usually the 1st thing she asks. Anyway, so I called her and the first thing she asked me was "So are you pregnant?" And I said "yes!", while quietly laughing to myself. She got really excited and suddenly said "Me too! this will be so great, we will be pregnant together!" and on and on... Woops! So I had to find a way to break into her happy diatribe and say "um, not really, uh, April fools?" She was pretty mad and I felt really bad. Yeah, so guess who was the fool in that situation? I guess I'm just not meant to be a practical joker. But I am pretty good at sneaking up to people and scaring them. Sometimes I do it without even trying.

Anyways, whether you are a joker or just enjoy a good joke, Have a good April 1st!