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FEAR FACTOR FOOLS

I had fun the last two days torturing high-school kids over the lunch hour. We brought new meaning to the old term “Cafeteria Surprise.”

That’s because for the all-night Post-Prom party this coming weekend, we parents are putting on a Fear Factor event. It’s like the gross-a-thon TV show, only better. The whole idea is to keep the kids in one supervised place, having wholesome fun, instead of out doing that other stuff that causes parents the REAL fear.

On Wednesday, we made them plunge their hands into an icy-cold cooler filled with 750 leeches. They had to fish one out and hold it in the palm of their hands for three seconds to “earn” $1,000 in funny-money for the Post-Prom games.

On Thursday, they had to suck a waxworm partly up a straw and deposit it into another container, though of course, three or four of them overachieved and got the waxworm all the way into their mouths. Ewwww!

Yes, it was funny. No, nobody barfed or fainted. Yes, a lot of them trembled while they were doing these stunts, or shrieked. But no, the girls weren’t the ones who were the biggest sissies. It was the great, big football guys who were the most fearful.

Either that, or they were pulling an early April Fool’s joke on us moms. Which reminds me – enjoy this day of fun, and if anyone puts a leech or a waxworm down your back, don’t look at me!

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Prayer request: Nebraska State Sen. Dwite Pedersen of Elkhorn is asking for prayer on behalf of his wife Priscilla. She has cancer in both lungs and has been in the hospital for chemotherapy treatment. Senator Pedersen said, “I believe the only answer for her is the Lord in prayer.” Father, we give thanks for this longtime public servant and we pray for his wife’s healing. (Psalm 102:2)