Some Funnies over the last week

A Bible Study/Busy Mom’s group from my church came together for our annual Naughty Pilgrim Party last week and it was so much fun. We all brought a gag gift and 20 items to make Blessing Bags which you’ve probably seen circulating on Facebook recently. You stuff a zip lock bag with travel size items of shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, crackers, socks, etc. Then when you come across someone in need you give them the bag. We prayed over our bags and had a blast stuffing them. There were about 14 of us circled around the dining room table with about 16 different items going in the bags in an assembly line fashion. The laugh of the night was when we realized that a sharpie marker had accidentally gotten stuffed in each bag. I had my stockpile of colorful sharpies on the table so people could write a note of encouragement to put in the bags and the markers had gotten mixed in with the other stuff. So we went digging through bags to retrieve the markers. Sorry but I wasn’t ready to let go of my sharpie stockpile. Nothing like a random permanent marker thrown in a bag of health and beauty supplies to cause some confusion. It really was a neat time of coming together in the name of Jesus and asking Him to give us opportunities to hand out these bags. We recognized they were small items that wouldn’t necessarily change a person’s life but when Jesus accompanies anything He can do amazing things. So prayed for him to go before us and show us the people to give our bags to. And we wait in expectation for that to happen.

Okay, now for the naughty part……hang tight….it’s not what you think……

I love sassy cocktail napkins and this one fit perfect for the Naughty Pilgrim Party. It says “…nighty?……nice? it could easily go either way.”  I found them at Marshall’s.

We had some pretty funny gag gifts come in this year with some great stories to accompany them. Nothing funnier than a church woman telling her story of walking into Spencer’s to find her gift. OH.MY.WORD….hilarious. I must remind you that the “naughty” part of the party is not ‘bad’ naughty. It’s tacky, cheap, goofy gag gift. So yeah, we were in stitches as one woman shared her experience of walking into Spencer’s to buy a “nice” but silly gift  (and she did – Tom & Jerry slippers) but what she had to encounter on the way out was not what she was expecting! And then another girl stole a burned down candle from the preacher’s office on her way to the party and threw it in a bag and made it her gift.

I was re-gifted with the classic Belly Dancing Kit that I brought as my gag gift two years ago. It keeps finding it’s way back to the party. Bells and all! I found this thing at a Garage Sale – brand new and still in the kit. I paid less than $2.00 for it. The girl who got it the first year was leaving on an Anniversary trip the next night so of course we gave her a hard time about it and asked her husband how he liked “the bells” Ha!!!

Sophie and Mitchell flew down the steps the next morning to see what my gift was and Mitchell grabbed up the bells and started playing them and actually sounding pretty good. Too funny! What a fun night. I still say the best part was stuffing the bags and praying over them and then finding a sharpie in each one and cracking up about it.

Okay, one more funny thing from this week……I picked Mitchell up from Scouts this week and took our dog with us. As I was in the parking lot getting ready to leave and two African American kids came up to the window to see Dooley, our cockapoo. Dooley, snapped at the boy and I scolded her and said to the boy, ” I am so sorry! She has never done that before to anyone.” He was startled but fine and then he said to me, “I really wanted to say, “you racist dog!” but I would totally be kidding. That’s what I would’ve said but didn’t.”

HA! HA! Cracked. me. up. all the way home.