I just wrote and deleted a really long post chronicling my dental work over the past year. Through some kind of Christmas Miracle I thought better of it, so I'll spare you the details; all you really need to know is that my husband's childhood dentist gave me a new front tooth yesterday. [Cue corny holiday jokes.]

It's not something I was exactly wishing for, at least not until 4:00 a.m. Tuesday when I woke suddenly and inexplicably, and the repairs made by the Lebanese dentist in Bamako to the veneer on my front left tooth crunched and crumbled on my tongue.

Anyway. We have been on our whirlwind holiday tour for two weeks. Will write more later. Today I am too busy lazing around reading, and eating cookies. No more peanut brittle, that's for sure.