Tomorrow, I’m off to start my 24th year of Nutcracker. It has definitely coming down to putting on tights to keep the baby in diapers. I really hadn’t intended to dance anymore this season, but it obviously didn’t stick.
Tam and I have had a great time visiting family and eating way too much food. Today’s big event was getting the family portrait with Saint Nick:

She’s just irresistable, no? What you can’t see is the lady to our right jumping up and down, sounding a whistle, and flapping a crazy bird puppet to make Tess smile. Tess wasn’t unhappy, just tuckered out. I should have thought to take a picture of that lady, she was a pro!