[honeychile]

Ours are going to change after this year! Nobody even inkled what they wanted until the week before, so I had to do the Christmas shopping & wrapping for six people, in the name of three different people (who were otherwise impaired). A beautiful, formal dinner (which took roughly 2 days to make) was destroyed by an out-of-control doberman in five minutes. A 150- year old platter bit the dust because of that mangy beast. After begging to play some board games, one person had to take out a calculator to tally somebody else's score, because he didn't believe the score. I was never so glad that I knew I had lost early on!

Next year, it's gift cards and dinner at a restaurant - and I don't particularly care if the place has Golden Arches!