Drat--that muu muu lady, $20 grocery money story was me, and I did put my name in, it just disappeared--when I started to write it, annap was the last post, by the time I posted, there had been a doxen more posts, and all wonderful, too!!!

There are a whole range of things that come into play, from commercialism to the loss of family members--this year is especially hard for us because we lost my wife's dad this year, and he was supposed to be moving in with us at the end of the year--it is painful to watch "White Christmas" without him--