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First there was the Tennessee Santa, who sent me this nice gift bag full of organic herbs from Sage Hill Farms. Thank you Bea! Did I wait for Christmas? Well . . . the bag is under the tree, but every once and a while I takes some of the herbs out and use. Thank you Bea!

Yesterday was like Christmas come early, if this keeps up I’ll have to double my morning walk, burn more calories. I’d spent all morning at the hospital with my hubby (having minor surgery) but when I got back home; there were not one, but two packages on my doorstep. First one I recognized, smoked salmon from a relative in Alaska.

I was surprised to see a big square box full of Italian goodies baked by Gloria Mount of My Little Taste of Italy. A gift from Ora Stearns Smith, Divinely Framed.

One of our family traditions is to decorate our tree together, then read a Christmas story while sipping hot cider or hot chocolate. I don’t stress about getting the tree up. We get to it when we get to it, but Christmas was only a week away so we had gone out the night before and picked out a tree. Last night we decorated and the kids thought Gloria’s biscotti was perfect dunking material.

My son introduced me to a new line of chocolates John and Kira’s. One of my favorites is their Pistachio, flavored with honey and cinnamon.