Christmas is here! We are settled in and looking forward to an evening with 34 celebrants, lots of laughter, card playing and food. Well I guess Christmas eve is here, but we are celebrating anyway.

We managed to leave town within one hour of our plan, and the house was only a partial disaster area. Thanks to the bigger folks in the household. Number one daughter and co-blogger made herself most helpful, vacuumed and scrubbed so I didn't have to do quite so much. Spousal unit was also in on the house saving mission, we managed to get enough done, leave calmly, without forgetting anything of major importance. Except some make-up, folks will just have to live with the real face this holiday season.