Sumo Santa

There is an episode of 'The Office' where all of the employees take a day-trip to the lake together. While there, they have various competitions, including a wrestling match wearing giant inflated sumo wrestler costumes. One of the characters, Andy Bernard, while still wearing his sumo attire, wanders over to the edge of the lake, peers into the water, looses his balance, and falls in. Because of the costume, Andy is very buoyant and begins to float, frantically waving his arms and legs. He shouts desperately to a co-worker on shore who does nothing as Andy continues to float farther and farther away. Near the end of the episode, there is a night scene where Andy, caught in some reeds, is still calling out for help.

Today we had a Primary Christmas breakfast. When the breakfast was in its planning stages, I talked Christian into being Santa Claus. I promised him that I would stay by his side and make sure his beard stayed on, no kids poked him in the eye, etc. We were off to a good start when someone asked me a question and I went to find out the answer. As I often do, I got distracted and started taking care of a few other things. By the time I got back, I had this thought in the back of my head, "I wonder why Christian's shoulders are almost touching his ears. That's funny." I wandered back to his side where he desperately said something along the lines of, "Ho, ho, ho Sister Kelsey. Santa needs your help." He finally got it across to me that his beard was half way down his chin. I went to pull the elastic up and over his ear when I realized there was a piece of half eaten candy cane stickily stuck to his ear. At that moment two thoughts came to my mind. The first was that my husband's plight seemed to be paralleling that of Andy Bernard's, a nice guy stranded in a fat suit with no one around to help. The other thought was that I sure am a lucky lady because my husband will do just about anything for me. What a great guy!