This past week also held two very important days in our house – April Fool’s Day and Easter. Kaleb kept asking me if they ever happened on the same day. He was quite concerned that someone might think the resurrected Christ was just an April Fool’s joke. His mind goes to strange places sometimes.
Our Easter was wonderfully traditional at Grammy J’s. After dinner we had the usual egg hunt with her grandkids and then we all played a few rounds of Golf (a card game). We love that she adopted us. She’s the most godly woman I know and a natural born teacher. Before we left the table, she got out her notes and it felt as if we were sitting around the feet of Jesus as we were queried on Bible trivia from Good Friday to Sunday morning – “What were the names of the men who took Jesus’ body down from the cross?…. Who were the first women at the open tomb?…” stuff like that. Amazingly, Kaleb answered the most correct questions. We were all impressed.
I wasn’t so impressed with him on April Fool’s Day, however. That kid lives all year to pull pranks on us and it’s the one day a year he can get away with it. He’d be in deep do-do any other time, so it’s almost like a “get out of jail free” card for him. Kory is no help as he heartily condones all his mischief. But this year I thought Kaleb went a little overboard.
We had the usual food coloring and hot sauce in our toothpaste tube, but he was a bit careless with the red food coloring and now we have permanent spots of red on the hardwood floor outside the bathroom. He glued the toilet paper roll so it wouldn’t roll but he also glued the dining room chairs to the floor –with super glue! One is still stuck there. The others have come free, but the pads that were under the chairs are still stuck fast to the hardwood floor. The spot where he super glued a quarter to the floor is not only missing some of the finish, but has a big gouge in the wood where he finally pried it off. I find all this stuff very disturbing but Kory thinks it’s funny. He reckons that Kaleb will inherit the house one day anyway so if he trashes it in the meantime, it will ultimately just affect his inheritance. I beg to differ. I’d like the house to stay in a somewhat composed state while I’m still living here, which hopefully will be for many years to come. I want the last laugh.
I was so thankful when April 2nd arrived. Buttered door knobs were OK the first few times, but when Kaleb kept rebuttering them, the “trick” got a bit old. So did the bowl of corks he delicately balanced on top of several doors – so when the door was slightly bumped – the corks fell on our head. Better that than a bowl of water, I guess (a trick from last year). He froze all of Kory’s underwear, but knew better than to touch mine. And he added yellow dye to the toilet tank water so it would never flush clear. Kaleb also loves to put little packs of ketchup under the toilet seat so it squirts out in all directions when someone sits on the toilet (usually me). That kid is relentless. But now, thankfully, life is back to our version of normal.
We’ve cared for a dog here for the past two weeks that I returned today. He was the cutest little guy from Summit Assistance Dogs. He is going into training to be a hearing assistance dog, but he had kennel cough so he was in quarantine with us until he got better. We were a little sad to see him go, but we know he has an important job to do. He’ll be living a life of purpose, which is something I’m not sure I do everyday, so at least it was nice we got to help him do it. Life goes on.
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