On the other hand, we still have a freezer full of cookies! This is because just before we left we hosted a cookie swap. Cookie swaps are wonderful. I would like to start a movement to replace all Yankee Swaps with Cookie Swaps. Imagine: everyone goes home with something she likes! I recognize that this might rob the holiday of some essential schadenfreude, but I think with enough cookies, we could muffle the pangs.
It's a good idea to arrange your cookie swap with a bunch of mildly competitive and/or perfectionistic people, such as those you might find in a graduate program. They bake very, very good cookies.
After we'd sampled as many as possible, we strolled over to the Point to take a break. High jinks ensued.
Also, lots of cute-couple-y-ness.
Where's the nice photo of me and Jeff, you ask? Well...it pains me to tell you this, but Jeff had eyes only for someone else:
His snow baby. It's true. Jeff loves snow more than me. Just ask him.
At least I had the satisfaction of seeing my rival's head (renamed "Cromwell") stuck up on a post, of sorts, when we went home.
We headed back to New England shortly thereafter, and snow followed us there. (Coincidence, Jeff? Hmmm?) So we got to spend a snow day with Jeff's niece Eliza, reading books,
horsing around,
And generally being super cute.
Jeff took Eliza on a sledding trip
and ended up very sweaty.
Almost as adorable are Eliza's parents, Katherine and Alex, who were our gracious hosts for several days.
Can we look at the reading-books photos again?
Awww.
Before long it was time to get Christmassy, so we started decorating. Jeff perched a member of my parents' Santa collection on the roof of the manger.
We're secularists.
And Christmas is about presents, after all. Laurel and Julia gave me a yoga mat, which they had shipped to Chicago, but Julia cleverly wrapped up a rolled piece of construction paper--purple, of course.
Mom and Dad, enablers of my knitting habit, got me a gift certificate to a local yarn producer. It came with little pieces of all the available yarn, and Mom and I got to spend some quality time figuring out the differences between Shetlands and Fishermans--and picking the nicest colors. 
Clearly I could have used some help parting my hair.
Christmas Day always ends up looking like this at our house:
It used to be that Jenny would put on Star Wars and everyone would fall asleep on the couch, but now people play with their electronics and fall asleep on the couch. Jeff got one of the brand-spankin'-new Amazon Kindles, and he loooooves it. Watch out, snow.
It's about time I got back to my freezer full of cookies...I mean, to that kale in the fridge. Or both. So happy new year, everyone!
Whee!
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