I know you've been dying to find out what I got the nieces for Little Christmas after all.

Well, I got Ana a digital camera (I had had no idea they were so cheap nowadays, but I got one for $12! If it's any good I may just pick up a new one for me - it's a real camera, not a toy or a FP camera or something) and as for Evangeline, I *was* going to cheat and get her paint or play-dough supplies - two things we need very much - but when we wrapped the presents for their friends she and her sister went *nuts* over this Klutz book with four little toy trucks and racetracks on every page, so I bought her one of her very own. My mother got a new expansion to Carcassonne (Cult, War, and Creativity - I recommend it to everybody!) and a picture book "from the girls" called CDC, full of all these little puns. "U F A 4N XN?" is "You have a foreign acccent?", that sort of thing. My sister got a set of "Beginner Dinnertime Games", and 'dul got a picture book of tangrams plus a real book of tangram puzzles.

So that's good. We're all set!