Thank you for the update. You seem to be the male part of a married couple and it sounds like you know me.

The assorted wee folk can carry on in secrecy, but often, when they don't, banter and story lines are allowed to develop, getting the most out of threads like this one.

I will try to sift out a clue or two from whatever else you wrote.

And if you DO make a personal call, let me know what sort of food to put out for you in a Santa sized portion along with the Purina Reindeer Chow. Hash fancies himself quite the gourmet chef, but without sufficient planning sometimes he has to send out to a carry out for childs portions if the number of elves is not known in advance and sometimes has to stand in the Elf-Service line, which takes up vasluable time.

Previous years' elf parties have been chronicled in older threads.

Do what you will. We will be ready.