All our Christmas stuff is received and wrapped (thanks to Danita). The house is decorated (thanks to Danita, again). Well, there is one small thing that is delayed or lost. We’ll get that squared away (Danita again!).

We went to a wonderful show at the Meyerhoff yesterday afternoon. The Baltimore Symphony played Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker while Troupe Vertigo did a cirque acrobatic show loosely modeled after the ballet. We had very good seats. The cirque was incredibly good. The troupe has a website with some pics and a video, but it does not even begin to do them justice.

Our self-Christmas present this year is a new kitchen table and chairs. We’ve been using the same table we had in the breakfast room of our house in Kingsville. The old table is very long in the tooth. The legs are pigeon-toed. Some of the finish has warn off. Chair fabric is hopelessly stained. Back in Kingsville, our breakfast room wouldn’t comfortably take a normal 3 ft x 5 ft table, so we had that old table custom made to 3 ft x 4 ft. We moved it to Columbia because our house can’t comfortably fit a standard 3 ft x 5 ft table. (Sound familiar?) Expandable tables less than 5 ft long are hard to find. our new table is from Ikea. Here’s a sign that we’re getting older. Instead of tying boxes to the top of our car, we paid to have the table delivered to our home. It should arrive tomorrow. Then I get the pleasure of assembling it myself.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.