{"id":4368,"date":"2016-02-03T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T01:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2016-02-03T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T01:36:11","slug":"the-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4368","title":{"rendered":"The Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember\u00a0how\u00a0I told you goofy stuff<\/a> happens to me all the time?\u00a0 I think I may have infected\u2026er\u2026passed this fun trait on to my daughter.<\/p>\n

How so? Glad you asked.\u00a0 Let me tell ya about the latest\u2026<\/p>\n

We visited a different church for mass this past week. This visit was the result of going to another part of town for a basketball tournament.\u00a0 [For those who don\u2019t know what a basketball tournament is, it\u2019s a fun time in a parent\u2019s life when they get to see a variety of parochial schools while traveling far and wide in order to watch your fill of nailbiter, edge-of-yer-seat, gradeschool basketball games.\u00a0 Traveling hither and yon and sitting on the visitors\u2019 side of the gym is what you do with your morning, noon and night come basketball tournament time.]<\/p>\n

By the time the last basketball tournament game of the day concluded, it was just about Saturday night church-going time, so we walked over to the church affiliated with the parochial school whose gym we had been using.<\/p>\n

Sissy’s been fighting a bad cold and while we were sitting in the church,\u00a0she blew through ha, ha, get it?\u00a0 BLEW??!<\/em> the entire supply of tissues in my purse.\u00a0 When she ok, we\u00a0<\/em>couldn\u2019t take the sniffing any more, she decided to venture forth to find the church bathroom for a good ol\u2019, git \u2018er done nose blow.<\/p>\n

Now the fun part about visiting a new church in a different part of town is that you have NO idea where anything is. You know all the words and hand motions, but every trip out of the pew is an adventure.\u00a0 So Sissy leaves to find the bathroom to blow her nose and not three minutes later we see her walking past us to the front of the church with a bunch of Knights of Columbus guys, each (including Sissy) holding their own long-handled collection basket.<\/p>\n

She then proceeds to work one\u00a0entire side of the church, floating the collection basket down one pew after another, turning left and right to get everyone on either side of her area.<\/p>\n

What the WHAT?!?!!<\/p>\n

When she finally returned\u00a0from her\u00a0Knight\u00a0stint, girl-version,\u00a0she explained that she never did find the bathroom. Instead, she had arrived in the back of the church\u00a0just at the exact time all the Knights were gathering in an alcove and handing out collection baskets to each other.\u00a0 Sissy approached with the intention of asking directions to the bathroom.\u00a0 But the Knights, clearly thinking that the young girl with the inquisitive smile and impeccable timing was there to help,\u00a0handed her a collection basket\u00a0of her own\u00a0and sent her off.<\/p>\n

Well.\u00a0 That was fun.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 Just like I said: an adventure every time you leave the pew.\u00a0 And ESPECIALLY\u00a0if you\u2019re my daughter.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Sweetie, and you\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember\u00a0how\u00a0I told you goofy stuff happens to me all the time?\u00a0 I think I may have infected\u2026er\u2026passed this fun trait on to my daughter. How so? Glad you asked.\u00a0 Let me tell ya about the latest\u2026 We visited a different church for mass this past week. This visit was the result of going to another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}