So, having finally placed my Nordstrom's order, it looks like I won't be getting half the stuff anyway.

They haven't even shipped a good proportion of it (ordered last week) and if it doesn't arrive at my husband's cousin's place by Friday, he can't bring it back to me. I don't want to ask Martha to send it across the border because I hate to put her to that trouble and expense when she is already being inconvenienced by my multiple parcels.

Sigh...Oh, Elliot Luca bag, how I would have loved thee.