Growing up my parents would always wake me up on April 1st and tell me it’s snowing outside. Of course I never believed them because it never snows in Seattle on April… except I guess it did today.

When I was young, my dad wanted me to do a prank on Mom one morning before school. He suggested that I pretend to flush my hearing aid down the toilet. I went along with it and hid my hearing aid and flushed the toilet so Mom would hear it from the other room and I screamed, “MOM!! My hearing aid fell in the toilet!!!!!” Mom totally fell for it! Poor Mom though… she didn’t want to have to buy a new hearing aid for me. They’re expensive & I wouldn’t go anywhere without my hearing aid on.

Freshman year in college, I decided to tell Tyler at around midnight that I was pregnant. He fell for it and was speechless, shocked, worried, and about to go insane. I played along for a few minutes by saying I had paged my parents and that he had to call his Mom now. He kept saying he was NOT going to call his Mom and started freaking out. Boy, he was really happy to hear it was only a joke!

Two years ago I played the same prank on my Mom through text.

Me: Mom, I think I’m pregnant. I just took two home pregnancy tests and they’re both positive. I’m scared.
Mom: Oh my gosh. Well, when was your last period? Were you taking your birth control pills? Can you get online now?
Me: Mom, April’s Fools Day! LOL, You’re not going to be a Grandma, okay.
Mom: Oh Steph, that was not FUNNY! Guess you got me good, real good. Now I can breathe again! What are you doing besides giving your poor old mother gray hair?

Today I decided to do a prank on my Mom through e-mail at work.

Me: My company just announced that they’ll start laying people off this Friday.
Mom: I wondered if they would be doing that. It’s a bad economy. Try not to worry and keep doing a great job.
Me: My boss just warned me that I have a high possibility of getting laid off since I’m still kind of new.
[Mom rambling on and on how I can talk with my boss about reducing my hours and etc]
Me: Mom… please look at the calendar. I love you.
Mom: I’m sorry… what calendar?
Me: Any calendar! What’s the date today?
Mom: OMGGGG! You bratty girl!!!!!!!!!! You did it to me again!!!!!!!! I’m sitting here all stressed out. Thanks for not dragging it out too long. Somehow, some way, I’m going to get you back for that.

Hahaha. That was definitely a good laugh this morning. I can’t believe April’s here already! This morning I was really tired to the point where I was typing February for the date…then I backspaced and typed in March. WTF.. I’m afraid to blink and find out it’s May.