No One Else Was Laughing and I Don't Know Why

    Our family are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  We're Mormons.  Don't panic, I'm not going to preach Mormonism.  I'm going to make fun of it.

    For a day, I'd love to be an outsider looking into the odd phenomenon made up of green jello, funeral potatoes, and gnarly casseroles.  Any Mormon reader of this blog has got to admit we do some weird crap.  A sterling example, our stake (a group of around 10 local congregations) has appointed several members from each ward/congregation to the Stake Arts Council.  This is a beautiful thing, and normally not at all weird.  The announcement was made that the Arts Council would like enough participants to form a children's choir and a women's choir.  Ignoring the fact that children singing don't always sound like angels, this is very lovely.

    Where's the weird? A STAKE SHADOW PUPPET SHOW!  When I first heard the announcement I looked around to see if anyone else was laughing because, honestly, STAKE SHADOW PUPPET SHOW.  That alone is weird.  Would you like me to add to the weirdness?  Okay, take this:  no one else was laughing.  Maybe I'm the weird one for laughing.  Maybe I'm not in the know.  Maybe there's a Stake Shadow Puppet Show every Tuesday and this is no big thing.  Honestly, why would this be weird to anyone else?  Silly, silly me.

    My little sister has coined a phrase to show her bemused exasperation with Mormon weirdness:  Mormons gotta morm, yo.  Golly, sometimes I wish they wouldn't.