Just when I thought Nutcracker mania couldn’t get higher, it did.

Now the girls like to act out The Nutcracker, with me as Herr Drosselmeyer. I knock at the door, come in to the party, and ask who the girls are ("Clara" and "Clara"). Daddy found a "patch" which I wear over my eye. (It’s one of those eyeshades you get when you fly internationally). Then I ask the girls to dance for me, and then I give them each a nutcracker doll. Tonight, Buppie was over and she was Fritz, so she had to "break" the nutcrackers before I sent him off to his room.

M said to A tonight, "Clara, would you like some pineapple?"

Tonight M said that she didn’t want me to be Fritz because she wants me to be the "beautiful Mommy."