A Prank A Day: Mission Accomplished

Let me begin this post by reminding my readers that my daughter is 8 years old and in the 3^rd grade. With that said, I never dreamed it would be my daughter that pulls the pranks in this house. Growing up living with my grandparents, it was my Uncle Michael who pulled the pranks on his sister, my Aunt Angie. He would do the usual things like gluing her makeup down to her vanity. Well, not in this house. It’s our daughter who pulls the pranks on her brothers. She sneaks a little prank then lies and laughs. The boys fuss and cry. At that point, I am pretty sure that Abbi is thinking, “mission accomplished.” Most days, I am certain that it’s her main objective for the day to see how often she can aggravate, irritate and annoy her brothers. She is pretty masterful at reaching her goal. Her one fault, she hasn’t mastered the art of lying. Oh, she tries her hardest. The problem is she doesn’t have someone else to blame. Take this morning, for example. I guess she got tired of putting soap on the boys’ tooth brushes. After 9 days of the same prank, it was probably getting old and boring. So, she devised a new scheme of filling their hair goop container with water. Of course, Tim went to the kids’ bathroom to fix the boys hair before school and found the prank. Of course, Abbi proceeded with several “I didn’t do it” “Eli did it” “Evan did it” pleas. Her dad outsmarted her, “Abbi, why would one of the boys ruin their own hair stuff?” Without thinking her little prank through, she blurted out, “Dad it was empty.” Hmm, so a confession.  Her logic to the confession was that if the container were empty, the prank didn’t matter.  She totally missed the fact that she was caught in a lie. Actually the container wasn’t empty and she had to leave for school with her dad’s reminder running through her mind that the boys have permission to get her back. Normally, we stick to the “don’t repay evil with evil” rule. However, we’ve had exactly 10 days of school and 10 days of pranks. I think it’s time she learned her lesson.