Have you heard about the overcrowding in Bethlehem?

Ellie’s response to: “Pick up the Nativity, it’s not meant to be a toy.”

Shop knitting is finished and mailed. Ellie’s sweater is finished but there is no photographic evidence (I wasn’t thinking about what I was doing and wrapped it). All that’s left is clean the house, figure out the other half of Christmas dinner, grocery shop, sew pajamas, fold the clothes, put the dishes away, dig a hole for the tree, wrap the rest of the presents and all the other stuff I do every day.

Christmas is beating me so badly, I haven’t even kept score this year.

It’s just too depressing.