Pranks

I told Billy recently that I thought we were failing as parents. We just don't play enough pranks on our children. They are sleeping comfortably in their beds each night fully trusting of us. And that's just not right. We need to play more pranks on our kids! So I sat the kids down tonight and explained pranks to them. I told them that they were free to play pranks on me, too, if they thought they could. The kids were nervous to say the least. My kids take after their Daddy and are not near as crazy as I. So, the kids informed me that we needed rules for the pranks. We compromised with me agreeing that nobody would get hurt and they promised not to mess up anything. I tried to teach Grace and Chloe the art of the prank by smearing peanut butter on Megan's doorknob but Megan is smarter than we thought.
I finally got her later when after washing my hands in the bathroom I decided to fill up my hand with handlotion "just in case an opportunity arose." And an opportunity was just on the other side of the door and has a very soft face right now.
In the spirit of the moment I got the neighbor, too! I came home from the store to see our neighbor shoveling snow so I pulled up behind her and blasted the horn. She jumped clean out of her snowboots! She said to expect revenge.
This is so much fun! I'm cooking up a big one for Billy! hehe!