Holidays Looming Large

Cristin only buys tasteful advent calendars.  I like her choice because  Santa provides a very useful distraction that seems to be able to deviate Phoebe from whatever devilish course she is on.  At this point she can identify the location of Christmas but seemed confused that we first marched down the pockets and are now proceeding up.  Sometimes I catch her trying to speed up time but neither of us have such powers.  I have been in many meetings where I tried to do so and have only failed.