May 30 – “My Grandma’s Underpants”

Just before our last breakfast experience at Disneyworld, Zakary introduced us to a “brand new” game he learned.  It’s actually one that’s been around for probably hundreds of years in one form or another.  His version was called “My Grandma’s Underpants.” 

Yep.  You heard right.  Here’s the gist of the game.  One person is selected to start.  Everyone else gets to ask him any question they choose.  The only stipulation is, he must answer with the same response, “My Grandma’s underpants.”  Oh, and one other thing … he cannot laugh under any circumstance.  Smiling is allowed, but no outright laughing.  Laughter means the turn rotates to someone else and the game continues, unending.  So, do you have the rules down pat?  Maybe a few examples would be helpful.  Remember, a ten-year-old introduced the game to us:

What are you wearing under your shorts?

My Grandma’s underpants

What did you find when you opened your book to read this morning?

My Grandma’s underpants

What do you use to dry off with after you have been swimming?

My Grandma’s underpants

You can almost imagine how “interesting” the questions got the longer we waited for Mickey Mouse to arrive.  And even more interesting was the looks of the boys’ faces when a particularly embarrassing scenario was introduced and it hit them that their Grandma was indeed sitting across from them at the table.  Great, great fun.

So there you are.  That should be more than enough to get you started on a game of your own.  Spend quality time with your family on this holiday weekend.

Romans 6:22-23 says, “But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Father, thank you for family and thank you for the sacrifice made by so many so that we could have the opportunity to make these kinds of memories.  Amen.