I've been avoiding the occasional "craft night" at church for quite some time. I'm not one of them......you know the ones......The ones who capture each moment of the past in order to tastefully display those freeze frames of good times on 12x12 sheets of decorated paper.
I was actually a little worried that I might not fit in. I'm not a scrap book kind of gal. I have no children to document. I e-mail pictures of vacations to family and post them on my Facebook page for others to see.
But tonight I decided to try it out. I took a crochet project I've been working on for quite some time and thought, "I'll at least keep my hands busy."
And then it happened........
A sweet, Godly woman in our group of 6 mistakenly and innocently combined the names of two local sporting goods stores while telling a story. The stores are Big 5 and Dicks. There was a shocked hush for about a nano-second. And then came a rush of laughter and giggles that soon had us blinking away tears.
Conversation bloomed......
From the Holy Land to red sauce and nacho cheese....from scrap booking tools to plastic spoons.....from "making new plant stands" to creepy, empty, dark churches........from long haired boys to dead pets..........from "Partners in Crime" to snoring husbands.......from cricuts to culs de sac.........from princess laptops to texts from the caretaker twin.......from blogs to Narnia dwarfs...
From the time I arrived at about 7:30 pm until we left at 11:30pm....
Friendships were made, renewed, deepened, and cherished.
I had a great time.
Thank you Lori, Patti, Willo, Ashley, and Jenni.
See ya' next time........
By the way, Patti, how do you really feel about cremation?
2 comments:
Yep, I think you covered it all. Well, most of it anyway. Prayer requests in the bathroom was left out, but maybe intentionally! I would have left that one out. I think you had to be there for that one. I'm SOOOOO glad you came!
Enjoy your movie day today.
Love ya! (and I really do!)
Ummmm....I don't really really have any strong feelings about cremation. Why do you ask? :) Oh, in case you're wondering, you've probably figured out our little secret now. We say we are scrapbooking so we can hang out under the guise of productivity. As you quite astutely observed, it takes roughly 3 hours to do one page....scrapbooking is our cover story. Hugs! Patti
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