So at Saturday night's party with New Friends* I played Dirty Santa, a Christmas gift exchange that is completely new to me but oh Lord how I wish all of my gift exchanges were just like it.

This present was the most swiped gift. It did not make it to my car by night's end. Although if you need a dirty limerick, especially ones (avert your eyes, Gram) featuring liberal use of the word "labia," we're all stocked up here. Give me a call.

(*Confidential to Sarah, Katie, Jen, Jenny and Jamie: See? This is me not using anyone's name. Hee.)

It was a lovely evening out in the south suburbs with wonderful food, fantastic company and the sweetest, most well-behaved children I have ever met. And I'm not just saying that because one of them is a little blue-eyed, blonde-haired boy who climbed up into my lap, rested his head on my chest, and sent my uterus throbbing.

There was some discussion amongst the ladies about raising well-behaved children, and what it takes, and I realized we were saying these things right in front of these well-behaved children, and it totally reminded me of being at my Aunt Susie and Uncle Don's Christmas parties, and being in their basement while the adults drank brown liquids, and Kate and I were in a back room off of the finished basement, playing Barbies, overhearing the adults talk about how good we were, and it of course right then and there dawned on me that those well-behaved children hear and understand more than we adults give them credit for so we'd best watch it with the dirty limericks. Ahem.

I was going to go into the whole inflatable snow globe phenomenon that has hit the midwest this holiday season but instead we're going to go driving around this weekend looking for as many of them as possible. And then maybe I'll mention how I find them to be the most hideous, tacky lawn decorations since the concrete goose fad of the 1980s.

I know someone's grandma had one of those sucker's off of her front door. Come on ... fess up!

Posted by Erin at 09:18 PM | filed under: Odds and ends

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