Dora Delivers

The other day when I was at work, I had a gentle little reminder. I was busy working on something at my desk that required a bit of concentration on my part because it had to do with columns of numbers.

Numbers are kinda like a foreign language to me, in that I can mange to do the simple stuff. I can remember single words and say them in the form of a question. Cerveza? Baño? I can add and subtract fairly easily, but lots of numbers and multiple problems take way more concentration.

Anyway, I was in the middle of this math problem project and the phone rang. I said aloud, "Who's calling me? Don't you know I am doing something?" I turned away from the math and reached for the phone, "Thank you for calling the dental office. This is Angel. How can I help you?" There was a quiet little pause and some background noise like someone was calling from their car. "This is Angel, can you hear me?" and then I hear this sweet little voice say, "Goo'morning Auntie Angel".

OH MY GOODNESS!! "Is this Lexi and Taylor?". Sweet little voices reply, not quite in unison, "yes", accompanied with some giggles. You should have seen the big'ol smile on my face. I lit up like warm rays of sunshine on a sunny afternoon.

"What are you girls up to this morning?" Lexi's sweet little voice says, "We are reading books in the car."

"You are? What are you reading?"

"I am reading Dora and Taylor is reading,..." I can't remember what Taylor was reading because I got all excited to talk to Lexi about her Dora book. You see, she just had her 4th birthday on December 20th and her mom had told me how she got Lexi a Dora the Explorer book and sneaked the book on the front porch.

Once the book was placed, Shanna said aloud so the girls could hear her, "What's that? I just heard a pitter patter on the front porch. Did you hear that? We should check it out". The girls came a runnin' and they opened the door. What did they find? Yup, that's right! The Dora book was right there on the porch.

As Lexi was looking at it all amazed, Shanna said, "Oh! Lexi! I just saw Dora go around the corner. Did you see her? Oh you just missed her. Oh my goodness Lexi, Dora brought you a book for your birthday".

Shanna said Lexi was so excited and totally believed that Dora had personally delivered her the book for her birthday. How cute is that? Lexi was telling me on the phone that morning about the pitter patter they had heard on the front porch.

It was very cute and to hear their little voices that morning on the phone was such a delight. After the good-byes and the I love you's, I hung up the phone and said, "It just goes to show, you should answer each call with a joyous hello, because you never know who will be on the other end of the line" and my part time 21 year old office assistant said, "Well, unless you have caller ID".