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noun:

1. Good-humored banter or teasing.
2. An instance of good-humored teasing; a jest.

Raillery is from French raillerie, from Old French railler, “to tease, to mock.”

Not to be confused with flummery, this gets dished out to the Kid a lot at home. Particularly from her dad. Is this in that secret dad handbook somewhere?

After Kid’s unsatisfying (i.e., too few eggs found her basket) egg hunt at the local park Saturday, a friend’s mom said that was okay because the Easter Bunny would come that night.

Excuse me? We were not planning ANYTHING. Isn’t a crowded, outdoor egg hunt enough?! Complete with real bunnies, guinea pigs and goats to pet??

Don’t you love it when other people inadvertently make your family tradition for you? I tried to convince Kid that mom was talking RAILLERY, pure and simple, and wasn’t she funny? Kid didn’t buy it.

I did. Egg stuff at the drug store, that is. For her indoor (and wet outdoor) Easter morning egg hunt.

Our NEW tradition.

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