I feel better now

After many responses on Facebook to my Rudolph note, I'm now feeling a lot better. All my friends last night had me feeling like a crazy person because I sing it the "fudge face---football---Columbus" way. It turns out...a lot of people (outside of the Taylor family) sing it that way too!

It took a few people stepping up to say something to help me get my reindeer pride back. But I'm no longer living in red-nosed fear. I will stand proudly and sing that holiday favorite from the top of my lungs. And I will not say "Pinocchio". I will not say "Monopoly". And I will not say "George Washington"! I will sing it the way I learned it and I will not be ashamed.

I also decided to google "rudolph the red-nosed reindeer like fudge face" and found this:

"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (reindeer)
Had a very shiny nose (like a lightbulb)
And if you ever saw him (saw him)
You would even say it glows (like a lightbulb/flashlight)

All of the other reindeer (reindeer)
Used to laugh and call him names (like Pinocchio/fudgeface)
They never let poor Rudolph (Rudolph)
Join in any reindeer games (like Monopoly/football)

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say (Happy Birthday/Ho-ho-ho!)
"Rudolph, with your nose so bright,
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"

Then all the reindeer loved him (loved him)
As they shouted out with glee: (Yippee!)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, (reindeer)
You'll go down in history! (like Columbus/Mickey Mouse/George Washington/The Yellow Pages)"