Notwithstanding the number of amazing gadgets of all sorts that can be found today, there remains the questions of, “how much will you actually use it”; and “is there space?”. Thus, even though Hubby did like when son made his own light saber at the workshop during our Disney trip in the spring, and lots of people were getting their wands from Harry Potter World during that trip, he declined both. Cool, and appreciated, but past the time when we need to add those to the household.

As I may have mentioned, the recent addition of the toaster oven/air fryer/grill to replace our previous toaster oven is so far nice, and we will learn to use it more although the size (larger than I was expecting) has caused some rearranging. Anyway, for once this year, I did request a gadget for myself. If you follow this blog you know I have insomnia and am also an early riser. My regular morning routine is make coffee and come upstairs to the computer. If Hubby has morning boat, I’m not up here long, then come back up after he heads out. In either case, I will have 3-4 mugs of coffee (one of chamomile tea if I’ve up with insomnia.) I now have a desktop warming pad for my mug. It plugs in and has three settings. It works really well and I am quite happy with it. A bit larger than the base of the mug, it also doesn’t take much space.

I did have to request a new Kindle as well because mine was probably six or seven years old and the vinyl cover was flaking off. Hubby ordered both for me and made sure all my content was transferred over. This is the Paperwhite model although I have no idea where that is in the line-up of the types you can buy.