She has her suspicions about Santa since she found out that the tooth fairy leaving silver eagle dollars under her pillow was me.

I got my suspicions about Santa too but I am not 100% sure.

Ellie finally fell asleep. Jenifer and I worked furiously filling the stockings while choking the attached bells so they would not ring. Hung the stockings and laid out the main presents.

Ellie is getting an acoustic guitar and Levi is getting a Star Wars Clone Warrior huge tank thing…

Similar to the GI Joe of my youth but a much small scale and much better marketing…

Jenifer immediately went to bed after we had did our elf work, but I got on the computer to check the weather to see when it would start raining.

While sitting at my desk, I heard a burp from my sauerkraut crock that I had started Sunday.

That made me laugh. Having a crock of fermenting sauerkraut burp at you early Christmas morning is a blessing. I am not sure what the gases are but they are probably responsible for climate change or something.

We are very proud of Ellie but my opinion of youth ball is checked with a frequently bitten tongue. It is madness. Growing up playing Little League, there were few if any parents at the games, just boys playing baseball and having fun. Yeah, we wanted to win but it was understood when two team met, one would win and one would lose. No need to cry about it and you still had chores to do when you got home regardless if you won or lost.

Now there are parents and grandparents micro-managing their kids, what is supposed to be play time, as a focus of their existence.

We actually had to sign a form this year that we would not verbally harass coaches , players, or umpires during the course of a game. Apparently that has become a problem.

My point of view is that playing ball is not fair, school is not fair, the workplace is not fair, growing orgainc vegetables on a small scale and competing with the industrial food complex is not fair either.

My answer is to the above “problems” is quit whining, accept the challenge and change what you think needs changing. Just shut up about how unfair stuff is.

Limited eggs, tons of Lettuce, the last of Levi’s onions, garlic, and arugula and maybe some Zephyer squash.