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<\/p>\nI woke up to this:<\/p>\n
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And it so reminded me of the time I was in like 4th or 5th grade or something and finally got a crack at the part of Mary in the Christmas Pageant at our church. Normally this older girl ALWAYS got the part, cuz like Alice Wendlekin<\/a>, she was the perfect picture of the Virgin Mary, well, that and she was the oldest girl in the class. But this particular year, the guys picked the equivalent of Screech<\/a> to play Joseph, and “Alice” refused to be anywhere near the boy.<\/p>\n The Sunday School teacher didn’t tell me ahead of time who was Joseph, but realy it wouldn’t have mattered.\u00a0 I got to be Mary.\u00a0 That was such a big deal, ya’ll have no idea.\u00a0 I mean, all I had to do was walk up the isle with Joseph, pull the baby doll out of the hiding spot and drop him in the manager at a certain time, and stand next to the manger while the Christmas Story was read and songs were sung. \u00a0\u00a0 Then the day of the pageant arrived.<\/p>\n Just before I was supposed to go on stage,\u00a0 Mom pulled me aside.\u00a0 “___ is sick.\u00a0 He may need to sit down.\u00a0 I just heard his dad tell him that if he feels like he’s gonna pass out, he should sit on his knees.\u00a0 And if he needs to barf, he should get off the stage through the choir loft door.\u00a0 I just want to let you know so you aren’t surprised or anything if he runs off the stage.”\u00a0 Great.\u00a0 And off we went.<\/p>\n We actually got through most of the pageant.\u00a0 Although\u00a0 Joseph kept turning various shades of yellow and green.\u00a0 Then he broke out in a sweat and started swaying.\u00a0 Just as Mary “delivered” the baby (read:\u00a0 Got the doll out from behind the bush and dropped him in the manger)\u00a0 Joseph hit his knees.\u00a0 I played along and knelt down too, and when the lights came back up, there was Mary and Joseph kneeling besides the manger.\u00a0 Joseph wasn’t doing so hot though.\u00a0 He kept swaying, and caught himself a few times before he went completely over.\u00a0 Then, about 3 songs before the end, he abruptly ran out the choir loft door, leaving Mary alone at the manger.\u00a0 The Pageant ended and Joseph skipped the after-party.<\/p>\n Years later, we still joke about the time Mary was a single mother.\u00a0 It was one of my best Christmas’s ever, because, Dude!\u00a0 I got to be Mary!\u00a0 So what if Joseph got sick and left Mary hangin’…\u00a0 That just makes it more memorable.\u00a0 Because, Dude!! \u00a0 I got to be Mary!\u00a0 WOOHOO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I woke up to this: And it so reminded me of the time I was in like 4th or 5th grade or something and finally got a crack at the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family_life","category-randomness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}