Feliz Natal

After a 15-hour flight from Hong Kong, which mercifully had no crying babies but did have yammering, annoying Christian youth returning from a mission trip, I'm back in the United States for my first Christmas home in three years. I almost didn't make it due to an ear infection and the perfectly rational fear that with my luck, my eardrum would rupture on the plane. It didn't, and here I am, in lovely Staten Island, staying with the in-laws and watching "Leprechaun 5: Leprechaun in the Hood" with them.

I'll write more about my trip later, but until then, here's a video that embodies the Christmas spirit of my Brooklyn-born mother-in-law: