To brighten everybody's spirits we planned several pranks throughout the day, including food coloring under the cereal in the bowls (as soon as you add the milk it changes color), giving the kids cups of jello that we told them was juice, and saying that we had a pan of "brownies" that was really a pan filled with letter E's that were cut out of brown paper.
However the best prank of all just sort of fell into our laps with this meme. We showed it to the kids and they went nuts. Leona immediately said, "Why does the governor always have to say lame stuff?" Eliza was concocting elaborate moving schemes to avoid this fate. We had already told them that the same thing was happening in Texas, so Eliza suggested that we move first to Virginia- she figured she could get Collin on board with that suggestion- where they could be promoted to the next grade, and then move to Texas where they could settle in without being held back a grade. We didn't tell them right away that this was a joke, we let them ruminate on it for several hours. At some point Leona said, "Or maybe this is all just a prank." but nobody paid any attention to her comment and it continued until Eliza called her friend, Joel, to talk about the tragedy. It was pretty hilarious.
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