I still remember this April Fool’s joke from my AP Biology class twenty-five years ago! It was the best ever! Every Friday we used to have doughnuts in class. We could all drive so we would all pile into someone’s car (there were only seven of us in the class,) leave campus, get the goods, and return to class. April Fool’s Day happened to fall on a Friday that year. We carefully removed the jelly from one of the jelly-filled doughnuts and replaced the jelly with yellow mustard. We then put some of the jelly back on the hole to make it look like the jelly was oozing out. That day we nicely handed our teacher his doughnut instead of letting him select his own. It was so funny to see his reaction when he bit into it! Luckily for us he liked us very much and laughed hysterically!!! He was such a wonderful teacher! I don’t remember much about biology, but I do remember all of the lectures he would give us about life. It was easy to get him off topic and just chit-chat for two hours. I wish I could somehow get in touch with him and thank him for those classes when he (and we, at the time) thought we had gotten away with “just goofing off and talking.” In reality, he taught us more on those days than on any other.

FYI: I got the picture of the jelly doughnuts from Google images. These particular doughnuts are from a website called holeydonuts.net and they are $23.95 a dozen. You could probably just use of these doughnuts for your prank and not have to remove the jelly…at that price I think they are filled with gold. 🙂

The Sweet: They are absolutely FANTABULOUSLY delicious!!!!!!!!!!! The Bitter: They are only available for a LIMITED TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And, as far as I can tell, they are only available in little packages.I can’t even explain how extremely wonderful they are!!!!!!!!!

Example 1: About 18 months ago Neil was courted by a big Wall Street firm to go and work for them. They flew him up to Manhattan twice for interviews. Living in Manhattan is my ultimate dream. However, something just didn’t seem right to Neil about the whole thing. So he said thanks, but no. The company who courted him: Bear Stearn’s. After their debacle last week, we are grateful he said no.
Example 2: About two weeks into the current school year, the principal of the elementary school where I occasionally substitute teach called and offered me a full time position teaching fourth grade gifted social studies. I was beyond elated. I have always said that I only want to teach at that particular school for that particular principal.
After talking it over with Neil and the girls, it was strongly apparent that I should say no. I am so glad that I did! Our family would be in complete shambles if I worked full time. The first year of high school and the first year of middle school have got to be the absolute worst as far as adjustments go. I am so glad that I have been able to focus on my babies and that I have been able to help them adjust.
Whenever I go to a new doctor and I have to fill out all the forms, on the line where is says “OCCUPATION” I always put “MOTHER.” On the line where it says “EMPLOYER” I always put “MY CHILDREN.”
Now I just need to learn to say no to my girls!!!!