The gift of Friendship

Every year the whole neighbor gift thing completely stresses me out.  First of all you have to do something more creative than you did the year before.  You have to make a list of all of the neighbors that you plan on giving a gift.  You spend hours putting together your little creative gift and then you need to tromp through the snow to deliver them all.  And right when you think that you are all done someone delivers a gift to you that you forgot and you find yourself running through the house looking for something to regift pretending the whole time that they were always on your list.  This year we decided that we would bypass the insanity and give the gift of friendship.  We had an open house for all of out friends and neighbors.  I made way too much food as usual but it turned out to be a really nice evening.  We ate alot, played a little pool, played a little Wii and sang alot of Karaoke until 1:30 in the morning.  There's nothing more comforting than good food and good friends.