Youth group tonight involved an Christmas sweater competition. Almost half of the kids wore sweaters that they dug up from thrift stores or their parents' closets - more than one wore a sweater that one of their parental units are planning to wear on Christmas / Christmas Eve. We are all about multipurpose clothing. :)My baby sister helped me decorate a sweater that came out of my mom's closet, complete with a giant bow on the back. Yes. I looked like a giant Christmas present. Not exactly my typical clothing choice.
The bonus of having all of the pieces safety pinned on was that said bow was easily moved to the back of one of the junior girls who had... neglected... to wear a Christmas sweater. It is amazing who you can "convince" to wear a shiny gold bow when their arms are being held down by a freshman.
Before the youth pastor shared his message for the night, we had them all line up, so that the leaders could choose two winning sweaters. Listening to the kids trying to explain to us why their sweater was the best was more than slightly funny. One of the Junior guys summed up his outfit with, "Mine is shiny. And, it has shoulder pads!"
Unfortunately for him, one of the other guys had a sweater with glow in the dark, sledding polar bears that knocked him out of the running.
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