This year - for the first time since I can remember - I didn't go home for Christmas, but instead, spent it with Erin and her family in Raleigh. After celebrating ourselves on Christmas Eve, we awoke and went over to the M's around 10:30ish.

To offer the blow-by-blow, I'd still be writing through my vacation. It was a great time..even Oscar behaved himself.

We concluded the evening by visiting a Mulligan family friend's house.

Overall, this probably was the best Christmas I've had as an adult....fore!