After our tangled web of lies - from the Leprechaun leaving footprints and change to the Tooth Fairy's Sacajawea coins, the Easter Bunny and his (her) green cellophane grass and jelly beans... I guess I was just tuckered out and hadn't considered the whole idea of tricking my kids today. So I didn't. We had a regular day of skipping between doctors appointments and haircuts. Since it was such an un-fun day and it was the last night of Passover, I agreed to make the kids pancakes for dinner. Excuse me, I agreed to ask their father to make them pancakes for dinner.
I had decided not to prank the kids... but then I had an epiphany. Prank pancakes. Instead of gross salty coffee that my poor dad had to endure every April Fool's Day, this would actually be tasty. So while Liam took his shower and Joshua cried while wrapped around my ankles for no other reason than just to stress us out while we were trying to do something nice... we made our prank pancakes. Some had strawberries, others had blueberries. My personal favorites were the banana bacon pancakes. Liam's favorites were the peanut pancakes, he was too stuffed to try the edamame in a pancake. Joshua enjoyed his cereal pancakes. None of us liked the jelly bean dessert pancakes. Just made the jelly bean more gooey and tough. And the M&M pancakes tasted like burnt chocolate. There were also crunchy Chinese noodle pancakes, oyster cracker pancakes, sausage pancakes, strawberry pancakes and grape pancakes too. And we topped it off with blue or green milk too!
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| Pancake fillings... this could be a disaster |
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| Jelly bean pancakes (trust us, don't try this). |
After a stressful dinner service I was eager to bite into my first pancake. And it took about 5 minutes for the shadow of doubt to come over me. So eventually I checked on-line and it turns out, the joke truly was on me. Today was in the last night of Passover... and for anyone who knows how the Jewish calendar works... that means that Passover isn't officially over until tomorrow night at sundown. And I'm pretty sure that pancakes are a form of "leavened bread" and that therefore they should be avoided until Passover is actually over. Oops. Hopefully G-d has a sense of humor on April Fool's Day too.
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| Prank pancakes! |
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Joshy and his pancakes!
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| Never enough syrup for Liam! |
