A wish list, since you asked

Dear Santa,

We have been very good this year. Even if we haven't been great, please grant us a bit of lenience, it has been a rough year, after all. So much has happened (and not happened) and yet we know how blessed we truly are. We have our families and our health, our house and our pets. We have each other. For now.

Next year we anticipate to be even more challenging with Sheldon moving to Texas and then deploying to Iraq. I will be holding down our small Fort in Alabama by myself. So we are not asking for much this Christmas except for some peace and harmony. We don't have much need for material things though the commercials have been telling us otherwise. Maybe some Delta Sky Miles in our stockings for the back and forth trips to El Paso would come in handy, that is about all we could ask for.

We wish there was a way that you could bring our family the one thing we really want this year but how would you wrap it? Where would you put the bow? Maybe we have wasted all our wishes on that anyway. So don't worry if our order is too steep, we understand. Really.

Be careful of the ceramic pieces on the mantle this year, you already broke the Joseph in our nativity scene and we are at a loss as to how to replace him. (insert sacrilegious jokes as to why we needed him in the first place here______ ) Just kidding, sheesh, lighten up! God knows that I know that Joseph had to lead the donkey. Anyway, just be careful with the breakable stuff. Please.

I'll try to be better,

V