This week’s competition for best text message turned out to be a tie. Who knew you could have a tie in a texting competition? Who knew there was even a texting competition going on? Not me.

Kristina on a peculiarly shaped Christmas cookie:

C said it is a dicker-doodle…but I don’t recall that cutter.

Holly on making my day:

One day we can share some meatballs in Denver.

I’ve also decided that there is a funniest email winner this week…For the Funniest Email competition that wasn’t happening.

Matthew on parties with the childbirth class:

Eve Marie stars in: “Carnage at Christmas”

babies, caseroles, ackward men, and pure mayhem!

oh hell yea

All of this week’s winners will be receiving a box of Nilla Wafers from Tom. Except for Matthew, who’s veganistic ways prevent him from eating the Wafers, and so he will be receiving an empty Nilla Wafers box. Congratulations.

In other news, our site is receiving an inordinate amount of spam comments. Now, I know that none of our faithful out there are doing this to us, but if you’ve sent a comment recently that wasn’t approved that’s probably because I trashed it with the 148 spam comments we’ve gotten in the last 20 hours. No joke. So, I apologize and recommend that while we work on fixing the problem, you keep your thoughts to yourself. Which, knowing some of you, might be good advice for life in general.

~Mrs.

While we were in Montana for the Thanksgiving holiday I spent a good deal of time reading license plates. — Don’t ask why. — It turns out that Montanans are particularly clever when it comes to personalizing their plates. Maybe it’s all that free time they have once they’ve grown bored with cow tipping.

In the few days I was there, I saw these six:

• YMELORD
• TNYROMO
• PYRO JR
• LSTCAL2
• SXEGURL
• VAMOS

Nicely done Montana.

~Mrs.