Season's Greetings from Independence, Missouri. I'm at my parents' home right now after having a holiday full of cheer. It's so surreal, but I still don't feel like it's Christmas time yet. Maybe because I spent the whole weekend at the Los Angeles airport. I had the "joy" of spending about 5 hours yesterday with my 7-year-old niece stuck in the airport waiting for our next flight. Unfortunately, airports don't have anything for kids to do except to shop. If you haven't been to a store with a little kid before, then you don't know how annoying "Can I have this?" can get after about the millionth time. But she's still the cutest little kid in the whole world. I'll try and post every once in a while from here (now that I know my passworld and my parents have a computer-- we're all moving on up). Otherwise, have a great holiday week and I'll check in with you again soon.