oh, what an interesting christmas this has been!  i woke up early this morning so that i could shower (in order to look somewhat decent in the inevitable rolls of christmas pictures that my shutter-happy family loves to take), and there was no water!  no, not only did we not have hot water, but no water period!  i guess our pipes froze or something.  we live in the country just a few miles outside of kansas city (well, i live there when i'm home from school in columbia, at least) we get our water from a well (which is much better, if you ask me...well, better when we have water!)  but, no, we didn't let it get the best of our christmas.  the family dinner will just have to be moved and a bit of reshuffling will happen, but it's all good.  the gifts were lovely, but the giving was better.  i hope all of you are having a wonderful time.  merry christmas!