So, the weekday topics on this blog are generally of a pretty serious nature. I figured we could all use a break from that, so I thought we could have a little fun on the weekends.... lighter topics, like the prank I posted about last Saturday.
Despite the tragedy of child sexual abuse in our family, we laugh A LOT in this house. We didn't at first, but once we determined not to allow the perpetrator to take another single thing away from us, once we took that power back, we eventually found joy again. I guess we missed those years of laughing, though, because we try really hard to get one over on one another now. Maybe too much. (Maybe not enough!) And sometimes it just doesn't go as planned.
So, my 9-y-o got such a thrill out of her newfound title/status, "Prankstuh Extraordinairre" (see last week's Slack SATURDAY post), that she couldn't wait to try her hand at pranking again. Only the nuances of the fine art of pranking seem to be lost on this youngest member of our household. Even though we warned her. Repeatedly. Even though she understood our words. Phoebs just couldn't help herself. And it did not go well. At all. The timing was off, and not *just* because she tried to reprank the same person and far too soon. No. She tried to do it first thing in the morning! In the MORNING! ::shudder::
Phoebs poured hot sauce in her sister Evie's morning shake. That was the extent of her prank ::Shaking my head because we ALL live with Evie!:: We all know she is, well, a VERY hard sleeper. I mention this because it helps explain the fact that even on normal, non-prank days, it takes Evie a while to wake up, and even longer to be the sweet Evie she's known for in her "circle". To say she found no humor in this latest prank is an understatement. Her excessively exaggerated, enormous heaves of exasperation have begun to elicit some copy-catting of said heaves by her sisters. I try really hard not to laugh, but *I* want to copy-cat it, too! I want to video tape it and play it on the big TV for "movie night". Pop some corn. Dole out some organic Goobs. Throw back a gluten-free beer. (Wait. I don't even drink!) I think we are laughing about the aftermath of this failed prank so much, that Phoebs may misinterpret this as a pranking success. Heck, maybe this makes it a success...getting her sister's goat like that.
Ahhhh, sisters. Slack SATURDAY. What's on your agenda this weekend?
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~Mags
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