• my red Kitchenaid stand mixer that my mommy got me for Christmas. I have this one.
• Assassins Creed II. Hubby plays this at night and we have a blast getting into the storyline.
• While I’m at it, I might as well plug Amazon. I’ve used their link in the last two bullet points. Could not have survived Christmas without Amazon.
• Fireplaces. We have two. One of the only good things about winter.
• Hot, hot, hot showers. See above.
• Apple’s new Magic Mouse. Apple finally got it right!

Everyone calls Alex “little Ed.” I don’t see it. It must be because he’s my son, and he’s Alex. Just Alex. So I put some pictures of them side by side at the same age. They are both 16 months in these pictures. It probably goes without saying, but hubby is on the left and Alex on the right. Please excuse my lack of photography skills back in 2006. So, yeah. Maybe. What do you think?

Here’s to Amazon! Cheers!

I’m going to try to be more regular about my Friday Shortlist postings, just because I love to give shout-outs to my favorite things! This being the Christmas season, my favorites list is quite long, so without further ado…

• Jingle Spells 3: way too much fun for Harry Potter and wizardrock fans!
• Shootsac: I’m getting one of these for Christmas, are you?
• Hair Bands: Loving the nostalgia right now! Cinderella, Poison, Def Leppard, Firehouse, Scorpions, etc. Get your own Hair Band station on Pandora!
• New Super Mario Bros: SO hoping Santa brings us one of these!!
• The poor man’s macro lens: I just learned about this the other day from Brenda’s blog. I’m hooked! I ordered an adapter for my Canon 50mm 1.2, but had to play around in the meantime. Yes, these are a bit blurry, but I was just experimenting by holding the lens up to my camera. So cool!