We broke out Mark and Matt's new game Schism. It is a game inspired by the Reformation. Every person gets to be a "church" and create their congregation. Mark and I have been playing it at home, but we have discovered that it doesn't work well as a two player game (or two players each playing two players). Trying it out with four was a great chance to see the game in a better light, with Sarah becoming the most sucessful leader. After the game, we all discussed some of the issues: the ability of players to "gang up" on other players, the need for a summary sheet to keep track of the beliefs of each church. Overall the game worked pretty well and there was lots of positive feedback.
Saturday night, Mark and I got to babysit Will and Sam all by ourselves while everyone else set up for the baptism tomorrow. It was a bit scary being in charge of little people for even that short amount of time. Personally, I have never babysat on my own; I was a helper and then a supervisor for summer camps, but this was rather different. Will and I colored in one of his Veggietales books while Mark entertained little Sam with lots of bouncing and making funny faces. The only hiccup was when Will tried to tell me he wanted to color "Silly Songs." I know that he knew exactly what he was saying, but I just couldn't hear any of the S's. It really didn't make sense without the S's. During the famous Rich nightly ice cream treat, we all sat down to watch October Sky on TV, which Mark had never seen before- a great movie! Then Mark and I stayed up a bit later to watch the first Superman movie- it had been such a long time since either of us had seen it that it felt like the first time.
Sunday we all got ready for church and the baptism of Sam. The ceremony was beautiful and luncheon prepared by Cookie and Sarah was very nice. There was even a lovely cake afterwords (and the minister got the "God" portion just by chance :) ).
