Thank you so much, Mish...I am just about off to bed. D wants to get up early to wrap her cookies!

Nikki - No, I hadn't been reading for a while (I love you, but it was hard for a bit to read about someone making it when I was clearly not ever going to). I am so sorry to hear about the re-bomb! I will be reading up on you over the break that I am SO looking forward to!!! I am in a much different place this year, aren't I?

And I think you know which way I am leaning...now, I am wondering if I should fill great-grandma in on some of the backstory, or just bow out gracefully with a scheduled time to get together....

Thinking...what would be my motive for explaining myself to GG? What would I like her to understand, and why? Am I trying to look less like a b!tch, or less crazy? Do I seem bitter by not going? Is it about me at all, or that bizarre part of me that keeps trying to find ways to have influence in X's life?

Processing.....

night all. Much love to you and yours, in case I miss anyone.