Whoomping a happy Easter.
Well, April Fool’s day was last week. I hope you were stoopid for that one day. Please, next April first, if you’re told there’s an elephant in the back yard, go look. There may be one.
That was a minor mistake (I probably made more, bigger ones) I made while raising my own. They played their own little childlike pranks - and I never fell for them. Hey, one day a year of pretending to be stupid can only add to you child’s fond memories when they grow up.
Today’s Easter. I remember, when Russ was small, we hid 12 Easter eggs around the living room. Russ went looking for them and found 11.
I said, “Russ, turn on the light, please.” He turned the switch on the lamp, and continued to look for the missing egg.
I said, “Russ, why didn’t you turn on the light?”
He said, “I did!”
I asked, “Gee, I wonder what’s wrong with it! Why don’t you take out the bulb, and we’ll change it.”
He looked under the lampshade and found the 12th egg where the bulb should have been.
Every year after that, the lamp was the first place he looked, even if the light was on! Mea culpa! Maybe I should have played into him and put one there - at least once! Anyway, after that one time, he never found another one there.
Well, HAPPY EASTER!
