As John traverses the wilds of Central Avenue in search of a Christmas Gift, I believe for me (aside: my friend Melissa was sporting a $3,600 white-gold bracelet that one of her dates got her -- I'm certain that this will not be my gift), I have once again decided to attempt more Christmas activities with the boys. I learned nothing from the mailing debacle. I will shortly attempt to make a gingerbread house and cut-out cookies. As I explained to Joe, generally speaking the cookies are not very tasty and are almost pure sugar as the boys' only interest is putting as many sprinkles as humanly possible on them. They also consider it fun to actually cut out the cookies only for about the first three cookies, at which point I am left to cut out about a billion cookies. This year the cookies should be especially festive as the boys were able to spy Scooby-Doo sprinkles at the store and insisted they must have said sprinkles for their cookies. If you all are really good, a tin of these delicious treats may head your way.