moments from april 1st

I briefly thought as I looked at the clock friday morning, "oh April 1st, April fools day," then quickly forgot as I tried to rouse myself from sleep. Perris had been up for a bit and I went into the bathroom. Now, I always look at the toilet before I proceed...this is what my little stinker husband overlooked!! He had saran-wrapped it! But I yelled out to him (he was in the living room), "NICE TRY!" as I took it off and threw it out.
Next thing-shower. I was, after this, a bit nervous about what else this man might try. After the saran wrap I began thinking about all the stories he's told me about his family doing april fools tricks. I hadn't had a very good night, PLUS I had scary dreams, so I was trying not to get mad and just remember it was all in good humor :) So, back to the shower...I turn on the water and step back to the back of the tub, as to let it heat up before stepping in it. What do I see? BLACK WATER emerging. Black water with a faint smell of grape :) So I groan and yell "ewwww" a little in shock and peek out of the curtain to see sneaky Perris at the door frame grinning like a champion!! The color faded and was gone within a minute, so I proceeded to go about my business.
"What can I do for payback??" kept going through my mind...I didn't have a lot of time, and I didn't have any ideas for what to do to get the man back. So I reverted to my last resort classic: the cold water dump. I knew P was going to play frisbee later that day with a group of guys and that it was supposed to be quite the nice day. So I yell from the bedroom "you're still playing frisbee today, right?" Yup, he yells from the shower. Then I get my equipment and nonchalantly come into the bathroom and say "Well you're probably going to get really hot while you do that, so this will help cool you off!" mid-dump.
He was already on to me and tried to dodge, but I still got him! Giggle, giggle, giggle I went, back to the bedroom to finish getting ready. What a silly little man.

Later that day I'm at my Utah Recreation Therapy conference in a session about stuff like tai chi and some other interesting things, and the woman leading has us do an imagery practice. "Close your eyes.....you're in a huge field and as far as you can see in every direction is this field....add whatever you want..."
some people share the the things they are adding to their field while we all still have eyes closed. (I had beautiful flowers all around me.)
"Ok someone shows up and is now there with you. Who is it..." (Perris, of course)
Others yell out "Husband, friend, Dad, etc."
"Alright...now an object shows up, what is it?" (A ball)
"Okay this person who is now with you says one thing to you." After seeing what Perris says to me, I immediately start laughing REALLY HARD in this dead-quiet room. I couldn't stop, I just laughed and laughed for a good 15 seconds. Whoops. See, I really was totally into this and in my field/zone, so when Perris was supposed to say something, he simply looks at me and with a little gleam in his eye and one eyebrow down and says "Hey... Sugar." It was just so real I thought it was so funny. It still makes me giggle thinking about it.