Barking Ninjas

Back when I was a EFY counselor over the summers, we had to come up with a group name for the youth two other counselors and myself were over. It wasn't like EFY is now -all spiritual all the time with valiant names like "Helaman Rocks!" or "Pushing the Carts with a Postive Attitude" or something, uh, more church like. Oh no. We were loud and proud and wanted to be the most obnoxious group eh-vuh. And we succeeded when we named ourselves the absolutely nothing to do with youth or spirituality or even America when we called ourselves the Barking Ninjas. We barked and howled and did wicked karate moves whenever people asked the simple, "Uh, who's your counselor? Or what group are you in?"

Natually all these silly memories return when I discover my own two barking ninjas and Power Rangers bouncing on the trampoline in the backyard, making their own annoying sounds and fantastic kicks in the air.