oh dear, Rhuby, et al, I fear I often do feel like a 'groan-up'. I think I'm going to run off and join those tall elves (I never wanted to run away with them when I thought they were little people!)

Merry, merry...

And my young one, a wizard(ess) of sorts I presume, is downstairs as I write, trimming the tree with her little girlfriend and setting up Santa's village which we'll alight this evening for the very first time. And I'm off to the bookstore to buy copies of reissued, deluxe edition of The Hobbit, with Tolkiens original watercolor illustrations as gifts for the preteens. So I'm thinking these are the better days for me....

blessings,
magimaria