"You know you have Awana Fever when...... "
1) When you eat the colored M&M's in the order of ... Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. Any colors other then those are eaten as a last resort.
2) When the fact that traffic lights don’t have a blue lens as well bothers you.
3) When you wake up out of a sound sleep with Awana verses going thru your head.
4) When to get your husband's attention you give him the 5 count. "1.... 2...3...4...5!"
5) When you randomly start singing the Cubbies song because it's catchy and upbeat...
6) When you walk into a fabric store and immediately start looking over fabric in the order of Red, Blue, Green and Yellow, contemplating what could be made for AWANA this year using those fabrics...
7) When you walk out of said fabric store with 2 yards each of red, blue, green and yellow felt, thinking, "Wow this will make a great AWANA bulletin board!"
8) When you wear your antique AWANA belt buckle everywhere......
9) When your children's piggy banks contain more Awana Bucks than dollar bills--and everyone is happy with that!
10) When all the kids refer to you as the AWANA lady rather than your name, and you answer to it!!!
11) When you wear your Sparky earrings to places OTHER than Awana!
12) When you're up to your eyebrows in Awana paperwork, and LOVING every minute of it.
13) When you want to paint the outside of your house and desire one side red, one side blue, one green and one yellow!
14) When people ask you what you're going to do after graduation and you answer, "Awana!"
15) When you are referred to as "Awana Momma”
16) When you can't wait for summer to be over with so that Awana can begin again.
17) When you keep reminding kids that Awana will be starting, so they need to find their books.
18) When you’re enlisting help to finish your Gold and Silver activities and you're not a clubber.
19) When your own children (including the 2-year-old) demand that you stop singing "We are Awana Cubbies..."
20) When you wish you could earn Awana bucks for the cool stuff in the Awana Store!!!
21) When you select an umbrella specifically because its made of AWANA colors.
22) When everything in the dollar stores and clothes in the thrift stores brings another theme in mind for planning the Awana calendar
23) When you plan to have a yard sale this weekend and the little round "pricing" stickers you buy are red, blue, green, and yellow instead of the fluorescent ones. Or even worse if you displayed the clothes in an AWANA games circle!!!
24) When, for exercise, you go to church and run around the circle rather than a normal track, timing every lap.
25) When you would rather know how fast someone could run the sprint/marathon race than the 1/2 mile.
26) When, after the first week of club you're crying that there are only 29 weeks left.
27) When asked if you play any sports you reply, "The AWANA Games."
28) When you have Red, Blue, Green and Yellow throw pillows on your couch which double as giant beanbags for games on "Big" night.
29) When in the dollar store you buy only items that come in red, blue, green and yellow.
30) When you own yellow jogging pants because I you are the yellow team leader one year.
31) When you are in a store and anything red, blue, green, yellow catches your eye and you think HARD to figure out how you can work it into your Awana club.
32) When you get a thrill whenever you see red, blue, green, and yellow together... but it irritates you that the colors are in the wrong order!
33) When @ work you have to change your computer pass work every few week & you use references to verses you have learned in Awana.
34) When you can't sleep at all the night before the first club meeting! Like the night before Christmas, but you have to wait until the next evening to enjoy the fun!
35) When you feel guilty 'cuz you can't think of anything to post on AWANA FEVER right at the moment...
36) When you are redecorating your child's room and you purchase a fan because it has 4 blades-red, blue, green and yellow and your husband says well we have our Awana room.
37) When you get excited about information such as being able to buy M&M’s separately.
38) When the first thing you check out about the neighbors, that just moved in, is how many AWANA age kids do they have.
39) When you go to town and more kids say "hi" to you than adults.
40) When you spend at least ten minutes a day (most of the time more) talking about Awana on the Commanders Corner and most of the other forums when the only forums that fit you is the Varsity and the Missionary it Training Forum!
41) When you log on to the Awana website before checking your own email at work!
42) When you buy four boxes of baby wipes (no baby!) to have red, blue, yellow and green containers
43) When you forward 165 preparation questions for VUSA to the baseball team instead of the game schedule
44) When after working with quizzers of all ages for weeks you have a church member come up say "I have a few questions I want to run by you." and your reply is "Varsity, JV, or Clubber?” even though the questions actually have to do with an entirely different subject
45) When you buy one of each color of the Awana t-shirts to wear to church during the summer on the night that would normally be club night.
46) When you pierce your kids' ears especially to wear AWANA earrings!
47) When you do the happy dance after getting all your clubbers info on the computer
48) When you call your commander every 10 minutes to tell him about a feature of ARK
49) When you put AWANA as one of the subjects on lesson plans (homeschoolers)
50) When your desk top scrolls "Approved Workman Are Not Ashamed"
51) When your favorite show is on, but you are too busy figuring out placement of kids on teams
52) When you deem an entire room as the Awana room, because the tables and closets are filled with Awana supplies left over from previous activities.
53) When you are planning Christmas activities in September
54) When you eat, sleep and breathe AWANA.
55) When you log onto the Internet the first place you come is into the AWANA site
56) When you're planning a new year of AWANA clubs before the previous year is completed...
57) When you clean out a closet and all that's in it now is Awana stuff - a desk where you have all their awards in little organizers, stacks of boxes full of stuff for the Awana store, a crate on wheels that you tote back and forth every week with all the council time stuff, etc. And it overflows to a bookshelf on the outside right beside the door because it doesn’t all fit
58) When you paint your fingernails red blue green and yellow... and you think it's COOL.
59) When you go to this thread before clicking on Commander's Corner, just to see the latest posts.
60) When your entire circle of friends consists of no one but Awana people
61) When you sit in history class thinking about NEXT years Awana games teams
62) When studying the Awana circle, you try and see if you can improve on it...
63) When everything on your walls in your room has to do with Awana
64) When you use your Awana service pins to play Monopoly instead of the standard markers...
65) When you do this with all games
66) When half the people in your phone list are Awana people
67) When on Sunday morning people ask you, "you come here for regular church too?"
68) When you come to Awana 2 hours early and stay an hour late...
69) When you use sparky and cubbie to illustrate points...
70) When you have a sparky beanie baby
71) When your brother can play the Awana theme song in farts on his armpit......
72) When you try to but can't......
73) When you still have your cubbie card and carry with it in your wallet pretty much everywhere you go.
74) When even your wallet has the Awana Game Guys in it!
75) When your wallet has more AWANA bucks in it than "regular" money!!!!
76) When you have your Mom redo your entire room in your team colors to match all your Awana stuff.
77) When you can wear a different Awana shirt everyday (one per day) for a month and not run out of shirts
78) When you buy school supplies for your children, and get everything in red, blue, green and yellow without even thinking about it
79) When the first thread you check is the Awana Fever thread to see who else has contracted this wonderful ailment!
80) When you get excited about finding paper clips in . . . Red . . . Blue . . . Green . . . and Yellow and make it a point to let everyone know that you’ve found them.
81) When you tell your children to put something away in the everything room but say “The Awana Room” and they know exactly what you’re talking about.
82) When you buy diskettes for your computer and later realize they are the AWANA colors!
83) When you wonder things like whether or not God will put us all in red, blue, green and yellow sections and have Awana circles on the floor when we get to heaven
84) When your nickname is the "Awana Queen."
85) When you are introduced by your pastor as "the one who bleeds not just red but blue, green & yellow as well." and your clubbers truly believe it.
86) When you brain never quits thinking about Awana and everything you see and do gets put through your “Awana filter” (how can I use this in club)
87) When you have files and files of ideas to use and boxes full of “props”
88) When you can't ever imagine not serving in Awana.
89) When hanging Christmas lights and decorating the house for Christmas (a holiday known for being red and green) Awana colors begin to surface instead!
90) When you color your hair green just because you’re a commander.
91) When your co-workers are always asking you what stunt you will pull next as you’re known for doing almost anything as long as it is legal and safe to attract clubbers to Awana
92) When you can’t even think about fishing without tying it into Awana (If I can hook ‘em, God will clean them …)
93) When driving down the street you see kids & think "potential clubbers, wish I had a bus."
94) When you are sitting in all your education classes and realize that most of the general principles being taught, especially in regards to classroom management, you've already learned because of so many years teaching in Awana!
95) When the vanity plates on all of your cars include the word "Awana"
96) When you don't have a single shirt in your wardrobe that isn't an Awana shirt
97) When you use your grey Awana uniform as a pajama top (pins included, OUCH
98) When you help your own children with a math problem, and only allow them 2 helps
99) If you have an Awana game area mowed into your front yard
100) If the Awana pledge is tattooed onto your right arm.
101) If you can't see the material on your uniform because of the awards
102) If you have made a quilt out of your children's old Awana uniforms
103) When your heart hurts to see a park full of unchurched kids
104) When you notice that the Christmas lights go "Red, Blue, Yellow, Green" instead of "Red, Blue, Green, Yellow"
105) When you wear your Awana on a non-club night, i.e., shopping at Wal-Mart!
106) When you have no Awana, (holidays and summer break), going to regular Wed. night services and feeling a bit "out of place".
107) When you use up ink cartridges monthly for every thing you print out.
108) When you pray over your computer so it will last another year.
109) When you idea of an Awana break is something you take so you can finally make dinner for the family.
110) When you think that the group, AA, is for those who overdose on AWANA.
111) When everyone around you thinks that "Type A personality" is a description of a good AWANA leader or Awana Leader prospect.
112) When you want AWANA tuition reimbursement for computer classes taken to facilitate downloading helps from the Forum
113) When you find yourself coloring and cutting out a hundred clipart leaves, two squirrels, and 50 acorns.....and you think you are having fun!
114) When you get excited about hand-making a construction paper Sparky with pipe-cleaner arms/legs for the Central feature of your bulletin board.
115) When you walk into a craft store LOOKING for Red material with yellow and orange accents.
116) When you look for a fuzzy poster with a firefly on it
117) When you can identify at a glance whether a Sparky face is "Skipper," "Hiker," or "Climber”
118) When you move to another city/state/country and the first thing you do is make a list of churches to visit based upon the fact that they have an AWANA program!
119) When you go thru withdrawal when the forum is down a couple of days.
120) When all your pens are Awana pens
121) When your cell phone screen name is “Commander …”
122) When you cell phone’s ring is the Awana theme song
123) When it’s a rarity if you’re not at any Awana event in the region
124) When you are so into Awana it starts to become dangerous and you must go into denial about having the fever.
125) When you get a “warm fuzzy” when you see the four colors in the correct order in places outside of Awana
126) When you love working with the kids so much that you’ll have a blast no matter what colors are in the room