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A Few Favorite Things

Deck the halls with boughs of holly Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la, la, la

’Tis the season to be jolly Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la, la, la

Here are a few Christmas treasures scattered here and there around our home.

 

On Monday, I’ll share our nativities.

Hopefully I’ll get some baking done next week. These are on my list.

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These “melt in your mouth”. There is no other way to express it.

Russian Tea Cookies

1 C. butter
1/2 C. powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2-1/2 cups sifted flour
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 cup nuts, finely chopped

Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla, flour, salt and nuts. Mix well. Form into small balls and flatten a bit. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 400 F  10-14 minutes. While still warm roll in powdered sugar. After cool, roll again in powdered sugar. Yields 3-4 dozen.

What is on your list for Christmas baking, if anything?

Christmas Time is Here

This is our first Christmas ornament. We received it at a wedding shower fifty years ago.

It’s 7am here in northeast Washington state and it is still dark outside. We are still in Twilight and soon the day will dawn.

The angels, Santa, and Mrs. Claus ended up in our Christmas stash from Greg’s folks. The ones below are also from them.

These ornaments are from some recent travels.

These two add so much joy to our merry and bright Christmas days!

‘I Love Baba’

These are old, too, but not handed down. They were purchased from a thrift store.

All the ornaments and all the bits and bobs did not make it out this year and that is fine.

We completed our Christmas letter on Friday and made copies. For whatever reason this was a harder task this year. I’m writing this post on Saturday morning and hopefully I did get all the cards addressed and ready to go to the post office today.

UPDATE: Our cards were all addressed and stuffed and sealed on Saturday. On Sunday on the way home from our church service we stopped at the post office and sent all the cards down the slot! Hooray!

Hope all is merry and bright in your corner.