Please forgive.....
the quasi-pity party I indulged in below. I guess the caffeine hadn't kicked in yet. I should be counting my blessings. Right now it's the scheduling of these blessings that has me overwhelmed. (Thankfully Target and Wal-Mart are open late, so I can do my Christmas shopping. Dad will have to do the haircut, dentist, grocery stuff. I won't even start obsessing about getting the boys up to the Rummage Shop to try on blazers. And if Chuck's Brooks Brothers khakis will just fit him through the 20th, it will all be good!)

Note to Embot: I have changed my schedule with my friend's mother, so I will be here on the 23rd during the day. Maybe we can put the tree up then. Feel free to bake cookies. Oh - is that springform pan yours, or does it go to Grandma's house?