Organized chaos and prayer.
We used to have a system. It was difficult to remember, in fact, only my husband and maybe one of the kids, knew what it was. Nevertheless, it was a good system. But that was back when we had six people living at home....
The old system went something like this: everyone had a day of the week in which they were assigned to say the dinner prayer. Then, on the seventh day, my husband calculated the trajectory of the moon and how it related to Earth's orbit---and that was who prayed. Or something like that.
Anyway. Now that there are only four of us, it would really be more convenient if there were eight days in the week. Then we could each pray 2x a week. It's just mathematically unfortunate that it can't work out that way. And for this reason, we couldn't figure out a new system.
So I had an idea. My husband rolls his eyes at this, but it is brilliant in its simplicity. And it works!!!
The new system: On even days the girls pray. On odd days the boys pray.
Don't worry, there's more. To decide who prays the girls (or boys) do rock-paper-scissors. The winner chooses whether to pray for dinner or that night before bed. See? It's easy.
And the best part is that Anna always does rock. So I can usually beat her...
3 comments:
Wow! That is an awesome system! Have you ever seen that tv show The Big Bang Theory...well they add a few more characters to the game which might be interesting to you. Watch the clip on Utube...its hilarious.
Scissors cut paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitate lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock and, as it’s always been, rock crushes scissors.
First love Big Bang Theory. Second, so glad I had kids to put in the prayer rotation. Seriously, umm is it you? Is it me? It can get old.
:-)
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