The Dreaded April Fool's Day!

I am happy to report that all my boys are sleeping in on this dreaded morn. Which means I am safe, for the moment, from all manner of April Fool's Day malarky. According to Wikipedia, the first reference to practical pranks on April 1 was in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392). However, Wikipedia also lists Canada as one of the countries that allows hoaxes past noon, and that certainly was not the case for me growing up.

Anyway, here's the best April Fool's Day prank ever played on me. It was brilliant, albeit in bad taste (pun intended--you'll get it further down the post :) ).


Cherubic Child #1, back in the day.


A mother's (that's me!) FAVORITE tea bags, sent to her by one of her loving sisters in Toronto. The mother (still me) has a limited supply of these tea bags and doles them out to herself carefully.


Common, everyday dirt from a California backyard. And a bottle of Elmer's glue.


Child #1 opened up my tea bags, dumped out the tea, filled the bags with dirt, then painstakingly glued the bags back together. Yes, these are DIRT bags!!!