Dec. 27: My Christmas review

• The work my mom started doing in my house the minute she arrived: 1 meelion stars
  
• Friends and family we spent our Christmas with: 5 stars
  
• Lucy, Erin & Kevin's pug puppy, not christening anything in our house: 5 stars
  
• Airline dependability: 2 stars
  
• Adorability of Presley: 5 stars
  
• Sonya's new massage chair: 4 stars
  
• Sonya sharing her new massage chair: 5 stars
  
• Mail service in Colorado: negative 15 stars
  
• Jack's new GeoTrax Rail & Road system: 5 stars
  
• Toys that require weird size batteries no normal person would ever have in their home on Christmas morning: 0 stars
  
• Stepping on parts of the GeoTrax Rail & Road system: 0 @$#&% stars
  
• The Christmas dinner that Darlene & Sonya prepared: 5 stars
  
• Katie & Jack's embarrassingly picky eating at Christmas dinner: 0 stars
  
• The Tickle-Me-Erin, our newly invented beverage of Shasta Tiki Punch and Midori: 5 stars
  
• Our Christmas CD this year: 5 stars (if I do say so myself)
  
• Number of cards we received vs. number we sent: 4 stars
  
• Hilarity of people wondering, after reading our Christmas letter, if I really did get a boob job in 2006: 5 stars
  
• Rain, not snow, on Christmas: 0 stars
  
• John's awesome gift to Lori: 5 stars
  
• Sharing my seester: 1 star
  
• What Santa brought me: 5 stars
  
• Santa bringing gifts even though I was probably on the naughty list: 5 stars
  
• Santa using "stocking too small" as an excuse not to get me a pony: 0 stars
  
• My embarrassment at receiving the new Justin Timberlake CD for Christmas (which I asked for): 3 stars
  
• Finding out that Daryl also received the CD (which he also asked for): 5 stars!
  
• Christmas trees that dry out way too soon: 0 stars
  
• Ending the Christmas holiday with a hacking cough and stuffy head: 0 stars