the first. gift. of christmas!!!!!

i know, i sound just like william hurt reaading the polar express, oh-so-many years ago (and it's so bad, it's our favorite recording!!)

there it is! waiting till we can open it. luckily, gramma and grampa said yes.
so we did.

open it, that is.

and lookie what we have here!! all the wonderful fun sorts of stuff we can't quite get here. 'cept it cost three billion times as much to send it as it's worth. but oh boy, were we happy. btw, there are chocolate chips stuck in there - the ghiradelli kind. plenty of chocolate in china - it's just the waxy, chemical flavored stuff. methinks we're making cookies soon!!!

and sabina is holding her precious tea bags. the ONLY kind we can't get in china.
tazo calmmmmmm