Some advice

• Don't wait until you're 30 ripe years old to watch It's a Wonderful Life for the first time; I mean, you can, it's certainly better than waiting until you're 31--but you'll wonder what else you've been missing out on.
  

• It feels good to listen to your husband's gentle suggestion that homemade cookies don't need to be packaged with a handwritten note listing each type of cookie because really, people just want something delicious in their belly. Amen. 

• Miniature gingerbread houses to perch on steaming cups of hot chocolate for Christmas morning are buckets of fun to make with your Marmousch on the 19th...even if the roofs still aren't attached by the 22nd. There's always tomorrow.