I’ve never been much of an April’s fools trickster.
I get that it’s all in good fun and it only last for a short time. I’ve chastised myself for being a stick in the mud and how I need to lighten up, but I have a story in my mind about April fools jokes that I can’t get over. It nags at me every April 1st.
I don’t like how Aprils fools tricks always make other people angry, or concerned, or frustrated in life.
My kids used to love playing tricks on each other, and I would try to grin and bear it, but I couldn’t wait for 12:00 to shut it down.
The whole gig is in direct contradiction to my values and mission of building trust, bringing the light, and leaving people in a better place than where you found them.
However, my sister has done some pretty genius April fools tricks. Her boys are little and they love it. When they went to bed last night they were begging her to fool them this morning.
She pretended to be the Easter bunny and filled their pink buckets with old socks, a rock, empty movie cases, a plastic spoon and she ate the ears off their bunnies.
I have been chuckling about it all morning and I can’t wait to see the video with their over dramatic reactions.
For those little boys I’ll make an exception to almost anything.
Love always wins.