Santa, if you’re out there, here’s my last minute wish list:

1. a working water heater installed immediately – I want a shower! I want to wash clothes & dishes & babies with warm water without having to heat it on the stove first!

2. my fancy wireless mouse that someone wandered off with this morning.

3. extra time to take a good long nap before our trip.

4. while you’re at it, let’s just teleport all of our belongings (including our home) to NE for the next two and a half weeks so that I do not have to continue packing or cleaning.

5. help this case of the sniffles we all seem to have to be nothing more than the sniffles.

6. give us a safe drive to NE with good weather and happy, sleepy children and happy, alert drivers!