Do what daddy says..

One thing that my dad used to tell his athletes when they would score a touchdown was, "act like you have done this before."  That was the advice that we relied on when we attended all of the swanky Christmas parties that we needed to attend.  I kept saying that to myself as we attended party after party, but I just couldn't when we went to the pastor and pastor's wives party.  When we drove to the gate to enter and the guard said, "The party is at the only house with snow on the front lawn."  Say what?  I knew we were in for an interesting night.  When we where in the house and the owners said to feel free and look around the house, I completely lost my cool factor.  There was no way I could have acted like I had done this before, so I remained shocked with my mouth open as I walked through the entire house saying things like, "no way," "this is unbelievable!" and  "do you think we can get one of these?"  All the amazing things aside, we were truly blessed by their generosity and getting to spend a night with the staff and their wives.  It was a fun evening and a eventful Christmas full of parties that we will remember for a while.