April Fool's Day

The kids were loving April Fool's day this year.  They kept trying to trick me all day long.  "There's a dog in our back yard!  April Fool's!" and "I broke my toe waaaaah!  April Fool's!" and "Emma's stuck on the fence and is going to fall!  April Fool's!" 

For dinner

I made this

and this

The first is actually shepherds pie and the "fishsticks" are actually wafer cookies.  I showed the kids what we were having and told them they could choose what they wanted to eat first.  Of course they all chose the pie and were so excited that they got to eat dessert first!  McKay took a bite and said with disgust, "Yuck, this is smashed potatoes!"  And I laughed evilly and replied, "April Fool's!"  And then he started crying!  I started laughing more (because I'm cool like that) and he started crying louder.  It was pretty funny!  After a good five minutes of him carrying on he finally stopped and told me, "April Fool's!"  I think he was just covering his tracks.  The other kids liked my trick.  Emma had seconds and thirds of everything.  Dave got home later and just looked at the food and didn't get it.  He thought they both looked gross and went and got a hamburger instead. So much for April Fool's.  Oh well.