Meriweather have a great trip.
I am so sorry I am one of those that normally mails out the due date or after. My biggest problem is I have a child that participates in this and we don't shop till we get a name. We have had both boys and girls from the age of 2 to 14, so we can't shop ahead for the childs items.
Normally once we get the names we have a week to shop and the mail out date is always friday (can we change the mail out date to give us a weekend to shop) and we normally shop during the weekend. If we always had women or girls the shopping would be easier, but not as fun. Not sure if this is anyone's else problem or not. But wanted to explain our dilemma. we will not continue to participant until after the first of the year maybe longer.
I edited this to change that our packages can not go out until Friday, since we had such a different type of afternoon. Something that could not be help. (will explain later but can't right now) If someone would like to help and send an elf gift out that would sure help me and maybe someday I can repay you all. I did pull out of the ornament exchange too, hopefully before the names got send out.
Again I apologize for this and please don't think bad of me. And hopefully you all will allow me to return to the exhanges when things settle down.
mrspiglet
Eva