Now THAT's a New Year's Day present

I got to call Helen on her New Year's Day morning (my New Year's Eve) to tell her...that I had just gotten our approval letters from the CIS, more than a month before what I had thought was the earliest we could possibly expect to get them. Suddenly it becomes thinkable that I could have Helen here by March instead of August.

So, um, Happy New Year to us. (But you guys keep praying, please.)

Have to admit, though, the NookColor that Roma and Anya and Nadezhda Petrovna got me is a rockin' great present, too.