I want some more of it.....

Today’s Beverage-Hot Apple Cider with orange and cinnamon

Today’s Goodie-Buttermilk Biscuit with butter and honey

Today’s Cozy Moment-Making fudge in Grandma “J”’s kitchen with Penny, Mom, Dallys, Robyn, Lindsay, Rhonda, Cindy, Marlys, Chloe’, Maddie, Kinzy, Tara, Jenessa, Maren, Mikauli, Torianna, all the little girls and any girls that I forgot, and of course Grandma “J”.
Wouldn’t that be something?

Books of the Month-The “Circle Trilogy” by Nora Roberts if you are not finished with those or “Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks

Movies of the Month-
The Holiday
While You Were Sleeping
All I Want For Christmas
Prancer
Serendipity
Elf
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Scrooged
A Christmas Story
Miracle On 34th Street
The Little Match Girl
It’s A Wonderful Life

Twelve movies for the 12 days of Christmas!!
I know I missed some of your favorites, But it’s kinda hard to choose.
I chose The Little Match Girl because it reminds me of my mom.
She had this movie when all the grandkids were little and it somehow got lost.
I have been trying to find another one for her for 15 years and have never been able to find the exact version.
But I will never forget it and I will never stop looking.
Love you, Mom!
Tell me some that I missed and you like to watch.

Things to do on a Beautiful day in December……

Breathe


√Start with a really nutritious breakfast

√Trade your talent or knowledge with a friend who has talent or knowledge. It’s free!

√Adopt an “Angel” off of an Angel Tree and buy them Christmas presents. Then imagine them opening them up on Christmas morning. Nothing gets you in the spirit like that can!

√Buy 8 bags of Candy Cane Tootsie Pops and eat them all year. It is the only Christmas item that I will allow outside of the month of December. Take a bag to work and share it with everyone. It spreads Christmas cheer!

√Buy a miniature Christmas tree for your desk at work. Put lights and little ornaments on it. It’s fun. I promise.

√Give the “Twilight Saga” a rest and read “Careless in Red” by Elizabeth George. It’s about a detective from Scotland Yard. It will get you in the mood for “Sherlock Holmes”. It’s a British mystery and it will make want some tea!

√Go see “Sherlock Holmes” on Christmas day.

√Watch endless Christmas movies on the “Hallmark” Channel and cry your eyes out. The commercials are almost the worst part. Have you seen a Hallmark commercial and not cried? I think not.

√Go Christmas shopping on a Saturday and brave the crowds. Go out to lunch and buy roasted chestnuts’. Immerse yourself in the madness, just once. It makes you appreciate the peace.

Make Christmas cookies

√Get a Peppermint Yogi Nog at Hogi Yogi. So good and it will make you shiver!!!

√Call in sick on a snowy day and sit by the fire with hot chocolate and watch everyone else deal with the snow

√Wear something meaningful that you received from someone you care deeply about and think about them all day

√Eat an orange

√Make Frozen Hot Chocolate (Milk, ice, hot coco mix-whip in a blender-drink it with a straw) just like in “Serendipity”

√Go ice skating

√Take your best friend out to lunch. Get dessert.

√Wear your Uggs!

√Cuddle with whomever you love most

√Say Prayers


Oh, December, have a great month!

P.S.
Dear non nerdy side of the Boob Nazi,
Don't be so hard on the Boob Nazi. She is a beautiful, free spirited, romantic soul. She seems to surprise herself everyday. Don't forget.
Happy Chanukah!
Grandma's rock!



Surprise cupcakes from emptythetrash. Oh, I love him!

My homies!

I know, apparently I am not photogenic. I hate that 8(

Doesn't my sister have white teeth? They totally glow.

I just don't even know.

Our little missing person.

I know, the harder I try the worse it is. But don't my girls and my mom look great?

Love my grandma!

emptythetrash. My heart.

My favorite Christmas treat

Adopt an "angel". Just do it!

My new favorite thing. Thanks Vicki!

Eat a good breakfast! It really helps.



Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone.

Kinzy, we totally miss you!

Costco.... Angel or Devil?

Today’s Beverage-Mexican Hot Chocolate with real whipped cream

Today’s Goodie-Macaroon from The Carmel Coffee Co. in Carmel, CA (the size of a scoop of ice cream, extra toasted on the out side, tender on the inside and dipped in dark chocolate and rolled in almonds) I know, I want to go there right now too!
(Why do they not sell these things in Utah County?) (Kneaders said they would make some for me but I would have to order 4 dozen) (I am thinking of what occasion I might need 4 dozen macaroons the size of a scoop of ice cream for?) (Any suggestions?)

Today’s Cozy Moment-I’m dreaming about the porch in Pebble Beach, reading or just chilling and watching the golfers. So pleasant!

Okay, Costco is just about my favorite store in the whole world. It really makes no sense to buy a big giant bag of organic tortilla chips and a jug of salsa when there only 4 people living at my house and two of them are almost never there. Or at least don’t eat there. And the other two are watching what they eat. But I did. And I also bought a chicken pot pie big enough to feed a family of 14 and ended up having to invite people over to eat it. And I bought a rotisserie chicken and a Caesar salad for who knows how many and a box of Fiber One bars with maybe 60 or 70 bars in it. And a hard cover book. Really, a hard cover book? Why can I not resist a hard cover book? Paper back books are half the price. I LOVE THIS STORE. I make plans here. I envision myself making fabulous dinners and having hors d'oeuvres and filling a gigantic stocking the size of a mini cooper with many lovely things and going snow shoeing after with an amazing scarf and kicky boots with toe warmers in them and them coming home and warming myself to a imitation fireplace and reading my new ridiculous hard cover book. I cannot be trusted without parental supervision at Costco. I mean I really need that Audrey Hepburn DVD Collection that comes in a pink and black hat box and I probably need the Harry Potter book collection that comes in collectable leather trunk with a lock! (I mean you never know when you will need to lock up your Harry Potter books). And maybe I need a 7 lb container of Red Vines or a box of 48 mini cream puffs. 2 dozen all beef hot dogs would feed us for 2 weeks (if we ate hotdogs everyday!) and a gallon of ketchup, well, we might be able to get through that before the “sell by” date, after which no one in my family will touch it with a 10 foot pole. And that fresh baked bread!!!! Who cares if I usually end up throwing out that useless 2nd loaf? There are no preservatives and it’s warm and fresh from the oven when I get there on Sunday morning. It’s too perfect. And my debit card works! Every single time. Yea, so it’s 2 or 3 hundred dollars every single time. So what! And then to top it all off, they offer me a mocha latte freeze as I’m walking out the door for $1.25. Heck, I have that much in my pocket.
Costco, why can’t I quit you?!!
Target, you are my second favorite. Everything is neat and color coordinated. Even bags of lettuce are irresistible.
Kneaders, you are third. But why, why, why, do you only have macaroons in the summer? That is just so wrong.
Wal-Mart, I hate you!!! You put too many things on every rack and it makes you look a mess and my card almost never works! Stop being cheap!

Oh, and Starbucks….
I do have a crush on you. I just really don’t like actual coffee too much. I do however love green tea latte’s and London Fogs and you make my daughter sooo happy. So, thanks, for everything! (I do “pretend” to like coffee and love the concept of enjoying coffee with friends, I just don’t like it, and I don’t really have any friends at the moment) But you can be fourth.