Christmas winds down

It’s mid January and I think the last cards and gifts have been completely delivered. It’s a treat in our household when the usual ‘big box’ comes to us from Australia. It’s also a good signal that this is the end of Christmas. Gladly, I think of it as a season and not a day – makes all those preparations worth it and John isn’t in the doghouse for being so late. 🙂

This year was calendars, Laura’s favorite crackers, iron ore and sandstone jewelry, a necklace chain, sweets, cookies (or biscuits, as John calls them), and two lovely birds that double as jewelry boxes.

John couldn’t forget my love of music and added the Beatles New CD, “Love”, (he is by his own admission a Beatles fan) and since I had a fascination with American Idol last year, he sent the Australian Idol for 2006, Damien Leith. What a treat.

Thanks, Mr. Dolphin. We worried a bit when it came so late after the Didgeridoo, but it’s safely here now. We will take good care of everything. 🙂