After finally finding the dog of my wife's dreams, we are now busy racing around the house trying to get everything packed up for the holidays.

We have to:

1. Get packed
2. Clean the house
3. fold the laundry, pack clothes for trip
4. finish Christmas shopping, back gifts for trip
5. clean out the chinchilla cage - done
6. pack the dogs
7. get dog leashes, colors, name tags for the new dogs
8. Get the kids and all their stuff ready
9. Get all my computer and podcast gear packed and the 20 newspapers that I still need to gather stories from and another dozen magazines packed
10. Go celebrate the holidays, drink a little booze, play lots of cards, watch the kids have fun, potty train the new puppy and teach the baby how to walk
11. Come back and get back to work

Oh and write lots of stories about the whole thing during the entire shebang.  :)

Happy Holidays!