Merry Christmas! Here's a little show and tell of our celebration. I think by now everyone knows that this is a regular work week -- I'm already hitting the books hard again -- so we opened presents (and stayed in our pajamas all day) on Saturday.



This is my little Christmas tableau.



I used some of the fabric I rescued from the
dumpster as wrapping paper. I was too lazy
to trek around to find proper stuff...



Ben reluctantly let me take his photo.
And although he doesn't like to admit it,
he loves the Jaime Oliver cookbook I bought him.



The Lego train set from my mother was a big hit.
It's my first train set ever! It took three hours
and a two-part set of instruction booklets to
put together, but it was cleverly engineered
and genuinely cool.



Here it is in action. The guardrail and rail station
engineer came handily included in the boy-version
Lego advent calendar. (I think my mother loves Legos
more than I do...)




..and we do. Very much. Best wishes to
all of you! Haag Saméakh! xoxo, m + b.