Last night Tuckey and company faced the blizzardy snow in our mission to bring some Christmas carols and warm smiles throughout Bethel's surrounding communities. Mission successful. Here are some highlights (or stand-out-moments!):
1. Woman coming to the door, waving us to be-gone, then walking away. There was no Christmas decor; we should have known.
2. Singing sweetly for Dr. Oglesbee and his family, then demanding A's on exams for those in his classes. Because, of course, now we know where he lives. As he shared he was still in the grading process, we rested (more like banked) on our singing of carols raising his spirits for the night.
3. Melisa mistaking me for a man. "Let's sing to him!" (with a big pointer finger -- thinking it was some random person/creeper just staring at them from afar) ... "Uhh, that's Casey!"
4. Older lady giving us her thanks and then enthusiastically filling us in with, "My husband's in the bathtub!" TMI?
5. We saved Kathy Gribben for last, mainly because she wasn't home when we started, but still. As we started singing for her... she got so excited and started screaming (over our singing, haha) something like, "Janelle, is that you?! Where's Travis? Ohh, I just love Bethel! ......" We thought it was funny.
It's moments like these, that refresh you from being stuck in the mundane routine that especially comes with winter. Smiles, cheerful tunes (even if Christmas music hasn't won you over), seeing new faces that you don't see everyday, almost slipping on the icy roads, lots of laughs.
Beautiful.
Ha, ha, and ha! I love it. Singing to a prof to soften the blow, huh? Very clever of you all. :)
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Waving and smiling,
Rhonda
I LOVE IT! :0) must've been 10x funnier in person...I just laughed here alot!
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