Good news!

Well, we bit the bullet and bought another camera.  Hurrah!  We had a Sears giftcard left over from who knows when sitting in my wallet that we had last pulled out before Clara was born, and so we finished it off and ordered this:

I think.  I'm fairly certain it was this one.  Really, I'm practically Amish when it comes to these sorts of things and I'm sure salespeople can smell it a mile away. 
I remember it wasn't terribly expensive and it came in three colour options and I chose either black or silver.  Or something.  Maybe there were four colours.  Whatever.

Today I begged ten minutes to myself, locked the spare room door and spread out all of the Christmas gifts to organize before wrapping.  Which is how I discovered that Clara had one toy and two stocking stuffers, and Samuel had, like, a pile.  And one of our fathers had one more gift than the other.  And I had something for my brother in law and both nephews but not for my sister in law.  This is NOT GOOD.  I was so sure I had everything covered but I DIDN'T.  ARRRRGGGHHH.

So.  New plan.  I don't know what I was picturing that I had for Clara but in reality I have a wooden stacking ring toy.  I know, I know...but seriously in my head there were more, and I'm just not sure what I was thinking about.  But, since Clara is young and not particularly interested in toys anyway, my plan is to keep her one toy, and get some more stocking stuffers for her.

I'm going to ignore the unbalanced fathers, because they'll never compare gifts and will be far away from each other when opening present time comes.  And that means I really only need to buy a gift for my sister-in-law.

One gift and some stocking stuffers.  Perfectly reasonable.

Anyway, I got all of Sam's gifts wrapped, because he's the one who I'm most concerned about finding his presents before Christmas morning.  On Thursday, when all the cards go out, I'm sending out the Christmas gift box as well.  I thought I had to send three boxes, but it turns out the one of the gifts can go home with my parents who are coming to visit, and the other two are for David's family members who can all recieve in one box and then divy up the presents.  Done.

Next on the list...the tree.