By MAD21
About a month ago, I posted an article regarding what we do in our house to determine who goes first when we do things. Playing Rock, Paper, Scissors is a silly game that my girls love and are usually happy with the outcome.
That being said, there are a few times when things don't quite work out the way we plan. Our youngest has recently been choosing the same thing every time we play, something our oldest has picked up on. So needless to say, our youngest has been losing... a lot.
The other night when it came time to choose who was got to pray first, my youngest didn't want to participate. Since she was sitting on my lap, I said, "Here, I'll do it for you." And I grabbed her hand (which was limp), and played along with my oldest stating, "Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!" Well, we were all laughing (i.e. trying to cheer our youngest/redirect her) because of her limp hand. And since, of course, it didn't work the first time we tried, we did it again. My oldest and I said, "Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!"
At the time of the word, "Shoot," Daddy says, "Dead fish!!" Which made everyone fall down laughing. Then a conversation continued regarding who would win with "dead fish." Personally, the 'ick-factor' alone would make the dead fish win every time. However, Daddy determined that paper would wrap the dead fish, dead fish would lay on the rock, and well, we didn't know about the scissors.
Needless to say, it was interesting getting through prayer time that evening. It's a little hard to focus on talking to God when there are other people snickering and giggling the whole time. Hopefully, God got a good laugh out of it all, too.
My friend and fellow blogger Wendy at Weight..What? has a fun carnival at her blog called "Life is Funny." Every Monday we talk about something in life that we find funny. Be sure to go visit her blog to read her post along with links to other blogs who are participating.