2004-12-26 10:48 p.m.
The Christmas Score
Total number of green vegetables at both celebrations: 1 (a salad)
Total number of desserts at both celebrations: 9 (Turtledove's mom went a little bit overboard)
Number of cookbooks we got as gifts (me for Christmas, TheBoy for his birthday): 4
Total number of presents opened: endless
Number of viewings of A Christmas Story: 1/2.
Number of fights: 1/2 (it happened over the phone, so we only heard one side)
Number of wedding conversations: 4
Number of grandchild conversations: 1. (Mom: "John's wife is having a baby in January." Me, ignoring the hint that I should collapse in a whimpering pile of baby lust at the very mention of an impending child: "Oh, that's nice. Pass the cheese?")
Number of goats: 0 (Aunt Slappy couldn't come, though last I heard she doesn't currently have a goat anyway.)
Number of happy, well-fed and thoroughly swagged-out people: all in attendance.