If you check many blogs (more than two or three) and you want an easy way to check for updates you could be in the market for an RSS reader.
Google, in their wisdom, has now introduced a pretty slick one. You can find it at the Google Labs page, www.google.com/reader .
It is a pretty useful reader, I am still getting used to some of it’s quirks but take a look.

This, in a nutshell, is how our christmas panned out.
Angela, Abby, and I are very lucky to have such a wonderful family, wonderful friends, and a very fortunate life.

The one Abby-ism that can’t be passed up:
Laying in bed at 08:30 waiting for Abby to wake up. I have been awake since 07:00…waiting.
08:30 and Angela and I are BOTH awake and growing more impatient.
So we start coughing loudly to no avail. Abby is sleeping more soundly than she did when she was an infant. Finally, I throw some weight behind a cough.

What is THAT? The Christmas Yeti!?

She is right and we start to giggle, which turns to muffled laughter and then a squeaky voice from the far side of the room.

Hey you guys, go back sleeping.
What…Why?
Cause Santa has to come.
(together) Honey, it’s morning-time. I think Santa has already come?
(pause…and then getting to her knees.) Pbbbbbllllgghghg!

As if SHE has been the one lying awake for the past hour and a half waiting for Santa.
We went downstairs and welcomed the morning.

A Festivus for the rest of us!
What a wonderful day it was.