The Day After

What an accomplishment! All hits and no misses. One seemed to be a miss, but later on that too turned out to be a hit and a good one at that. I was quite excited in the morning, but it being Ram Navmi that day, after paying obeisance to the almighty and begging for good sense to prevail on me, my mood was solemn and wicked ideas didn't even muster courage to knock on my humble mind's door. To my daughter's utter surprise and dismay this time I had turned saintly, anyway she prodded me to let myself flow and at least to salute the day AND not get caught up in the spirituality thing.With little enthusiasm I called my husband who was out station and after the usual exchange of pleasantries I started to roll the red carpet before him ,blame it on my monotonous tone he readily fell for the ploy. Now I was a bit fired up and moved on to my next victim who should have been my MIL but as luck would have it turned out to be my FIL. Wow! He too got caught in the silky web of my words, now the stage was set and I had to wait. Unaware of my mischievous designs my daughter in the evening reminded me of the lost opportunity and missing out on some good laughs, suddenly an evil idea struck me and in all honesty I pulled a fast one on my daughter. She asked me whether a friend of mine, who was de facto in my scheme of things, is trying to fool us or not?Well, I suppressed a laugh and assured her of my friend's good intentions, satisfied she left the house and after a while when her hard earned wisdom dawned on her she entered the house stomping her feet and found me laughing uncontrollably then we sat down laughing together and I told her about my other victims .As expected late in the evening both my husband and my FIL called and not to stretch things further I showed them the mirror and we all had a good laugh. The next day, my FIL jokingly said that he was wary of me since I fooled both father and son so convincingly. Yesterday in the middle of the night I felt the bed shake, thinking it was an earthquake, I prominently pinned it down in my conscious so that I could tell everyone in the morning of finally having felt one. In the morning, as I rushed to my daughter's room to fill her in of my experience, AND, she turned the other side and complained of having a bad night, I wondered why she didn't wake me up, and then she told me that  she had tried....... by gently shaking me.......
What?!