Blog Friend Feature: Hating April Fools

When I asked this week's Blog Friend Feature to pretty please be featured this week, I wasn't thinking that today is April Fools Day.  And I really didn't know that she hates this day!  But, hopefully, you all will show her lots of love and make her have a better day!


Julie blogs at DutchbeingMe, which is the type of blog that when you are reading it, you feel like you are chatting with a friend.  Which is why I, too, squealed when I got to meet Julie IRL. I know you'll love her, too.

Happy April Fools.


Believe it or not, I actually hate this day. It’s really for a number of good reasons – as well as a couple of well, silly “ideas”. So it’s kind of funny and ironic that I’m Shell’s BFF today. I think she’s trying to make this day better for me {even though she may have just learned all of this stuff about me. :)}


Don’t get me wrong, I’m *THRILLED* that Shell chose me. I mean really?! Little ole me?! I couldn’t be more flattered. Shell was one of my very first bloggy friends when I started finding other blogs to read a couple of years ago – and I’ve adored her ever since (as have so many others.) And when I got to meet her at Blissdom this year… I may have squealed a little bit. For reals.


But anyway… back to what I was going to say about today. My dark day if you will. (And for those that watched Gilmore Girls, you know what I’m talking about.) :)


The dislike for this day has actually been rooted much further back in my history than just the last 15 years... like you know, elementary school when all the kids would tell stories and make up things. I’m a fairly gullible person, so I tend to believe the stories about all kinds of different things and then learn later that they are not true. Not to mention the disappointment I feel at that point… especially if it was something that I wanted to do or participate in! {And, um… this totally doesn’t happen to me anymore. *Ignore me turning into Pinocchio as you read this.*}


So it only take a certain number of times that people promise you things – and then you realize that it’s April 1 – that you tend not to trust anyone on this day anymore. Nor do you know what to expect from those that have pulled “pranks”. Are they being sincere? Are they being honest? Can I trust them?


I’m sure you’ve been in that place before. The place where you want to trust that things will happen, but yet have that slight suspicion in the back of your mind that things might not go the way you expect. You – like me – hope that you aren’t led into a place where severe embarrassment will occur.


No matter what, if it’s April Fool’s Day or any other day of the year, disappointment can be found. Pranks will happen. Jokes will occur. It’s how we deal with them – whether laughter or tears – is how it will be remembered.

Please leave Julie some comment love here and then go follow her blog if you don't already!