this post has no title but is about Christmas

While Will watches After the Thin Man downstairs I am taking a quick break to reflect on Christmas. There was some bad - very bad - in the form of a family feud that I cannot/will not get into here. But there was also a lot of very good, which I think can be summed up best in list form.

• Greek food
  
• homemade pizza
  
• pork pibil
  
• chile verde (vegetarian)
  
• salsa & guacamole
  
• margaritas (I tasted one and it didn't kill the baby so there)
  
  
• brass monkey bookends
  
• The Thin Man box set
  
• Apple store giftcards
  
• Libeled Lady
  
• a book of hot chocolate recipes (I cannot for the life of me remember which of my parents this was from)
  
• an illustrated Wizard of Oz
  
• cash for maternity clothes (or whatever I want) from the in-laws
  
• cash from the husband to spend frivolously on myself (I went to Origins)
  
• Batman Begins
  
• baby clothes
  
• knitting things
  
• cookbooks
  
• book-books
  
• tchotchkes*
  
• caaandy**
  
  
• love
  
• health
  
• baby
  
• friends

Tomorrow we are off to spend Will's Christmas money on new boots and mine on new clothes and if there's anything leftover it will go toward the compooper.

*It is worth mentioning Will's sister's gifts on their own: a serving bowl made out of an LP (Tony Bennett), a decorative cowboy plate, and this knife set (I laughed for an hour).
**Blogger wants to change this to Canada. WWBD (What Would the Bears Do)?

And now I must get back to my husband, who is in ill health after finding himself at the wrong end of a bottle of tequila.