Number 1 was General Petraeus. I guess I'm the only one who enjoyed the show. I especially like the hour with Oprah. As far as Justin Beiber goes, he's no different than the rest of the young kids that are suddenly making headlines. I like his hair, but then I liked the Beatles hair, too. Parents sure didn't! I think he's a cute kid and making enough money to (hopefully) afford a good education a few years from now. Can't fault him for that or the fact young girls go ga-ga over him. Nobody over 40 ever thought Elvis would last either. So who knows.

Thanks for the reminder. I hope to have all my last minute Christmas prep done by 9, so I will settle down to watch it. Or maybe I will be wrapping a few gifts by the light of the tv! I do love that show.

Not "clueless" at all! I am very familiar with the Gladney agency in Ft Worth. It's the agency many, many people would like to use (and I know people who have). So many that they no longer put how many applied and how many were accepted to adopt, and how long it took, on their web site (they used to do so). But the statistic that IS there is that in 2017, they placed only 128 infants through their "Domestic" program, and that includes children of ALL races. About 15 years ago, that figure was in the mid-300's. That is what is happening today. For a white couple wanting a healthy white infant (and is that really so wrong?), it has become very difficult to find a baby to adopt, especially through an agency that does all the very important checks of family and birth mother. Many couples do private adoptions but they may be fraught with peril, both legally and otherwise. And many of these are really just "buying" a baby as the birth mother suddenly needs "living expenses" that would allow her to live in the Carlyle Hotel in NYC during her entire pregnancy. I fully understand why many looking to adopt do not want a child of a race other than their own (it does come with problems FOR THE CHILD at some point - I know people who have done this), nor do they want a foreign child. A few years ago, Russian babies were in great demand - they looked "european" and they were available quickly. They were in demand until these babies started showing signs of fetal alcohol syndrome. Utter disaster! More and more young people are delaying marriage and children until they are not really young, they are middle-aged. And they then discover that their fertility is not what they had hoped for. They spend a fortune on IVF or surrogacy (often with an egg donor) and anything else technology can offer, as there are so few white infants out there to adopt. If I were looking to adopt, I sure wouldn't want that now grown baby showing up unannounced on my doorstep and then telling me I had ruined her childhood - actually her entire life.

My PBS station aired reruns of two past holiday specials last weekend. Even tho I had seen them before, I still got all teary. Aren't they the best stories? I just happened to come across tonight's special while surfing the channel directory. I bookmarked it.