tiny surprise

yesterday in church, someone handed me this package.  it was from my mom!  she had been at a conference this week and someone from my church was also there, so she sent this little present home with them for me.  the long, skinny package was a paring knife i’d requested, but i didn’t know what the other one was.  would you like to see what it was?

tricky dogs!  how many of you played with these when you were kids?  i think of them as “kid bait” because when i was a kid, this was what my favorite ladies in church would pull out of their purses for me to play with.  it was really only on the rarest of occasions that someone pulled a toy out of their purse for me to play with in church, but i always hoped.  they’d open their purse to get out money for the offering or a kleenex to blow their nose and i’d perk up, thinking that maybe they were getting something for me to play with.  mr. happy stuff tried to convince me that the original tricky dogs’ magnets were covered up with more plastic, but… i thought they looked just like these guys.  and now i have my own set.  how cute!