Update

I'm at the point in my Christmas shopping where if the girls need a new tube of toothpaste I'm wrapping it to put under the tree to add to the present mountain. They won't be excited by it, but hey, they had the fun of unwrapping it!

I wrap as I go and I start present shopping in the January sales, but that doesn't stop me deciding they have enough then at the last minute panicking and thinking, no, it all looks woefully pitiful and going out on Christmas Eve and buying them a foldaway helicopter.

Ebay is a terrible tempation. Just awful. ::eyes current auctions sideways::

I go a little mad at Christmas. I'm one of those sickening people who really do get my kicks from giving not getting. I adore finding the perfect gift and watching someone's face light up when they get it.


Look at that. It's snowing!

Bay tree

I just picked a leaf off the bay tree in the kitchen to put in the spag bol and thought I'd share a picture of it. I love herb gardens (our lawn is mostly oregano in several places) so when I saw this stunted, marked way down bay plant in a nursery at the end of a season, I brought it home. It had three leaves and was about five inches high.

Now look at it three years later!

And yes, I keep murmuring that quotation from the Bible about what the wicked flourish like ;-)