My parents are arriving tomorrow to whisk me off to Canada until the end of the month, and Sunday Peter is being whisked as far as Chicago by the combined efforts of public transport and United Airlines, there to be stranded by weather and airline perfidy probably at least until boxing day. But whether or not he makes it to PHL, we’ll be in separate countries come the 25th, so we’re celebrating Christmas today. Presents!

I thought it might be cute if today fell on some sort of appropriate feast day, the way RC2’s family open their presents on the feast of Saint Nick, but when I looked it up, today is “Feria”. So, so much for that. (The Irish came closer, bless them, with St Flannan on the 18th and St Fachanan on the 20th.)