Friendly Christmas
Here's the partridge that Laura and I both have on our tree. I found them a couple of years ago and gave her one for her birthday (which is just a little after mine in January).
It's nice to share things like ornaments and Christmas traditions. Mary and I also have some of the same ornaments, I think. We bought a lot of ours (back in the day) at Dank's in State College, PA. It was an old-time department store that has since shut down. They had a great Christmas ornament department down in the basement every year. I think we both started buying our vegetable ornaments there.
Other things that are fun to share with friends at Christmas are recipes. My mom used to make these butterballs every year, and now I usually do too. (They're also known as Russian tea cakes, in some circles, I believe.) And back to my friend with the anti-linear brain -- Laura shared her wonderful, old-fashioned Savage cookies with me a few years ago, and now this recipe is one of my holiday favorites too.
And of course, from way back when -- Marty's gingerbread boys. We've been married a lot longer than five years now (as it says on the recipe introduction), but I still love these boys. Some things never change!
Here's the partridge that Laura and I both have on our tree. I found them a couple of years ago and gave her one for her birthday (which is just a little after mine in January).
It's nice to share things like ornaments and Christmas traditions. Mary and I also have some of the same ornaments, I think. We bought a lot of ours (back in the day) at Dank's in State College, PA. It was an old-time department store that has since shut down. They had a great Christmas ornament department down in the basement every year. I think we both started buying our vegetable ornaments there.
Other things that are fun to share with friends at Christmas are recipes. My mom used to make these butterballs every year, and now I usually do too. (They're also known as Russian tea cakes, in some circles, I believe.) And back to my friend with the anti-linear brain -- Laura shared her wonderful, old-fashioned Savage cookies with me a few years ago, and now this recipe is one of my holiday favorites too.
And of course, from way back when -- Marty's gingerbread boys. We've been married a lot longer than five years now (as it says on the recipe introduction), but I still love these boys. Some things never change!
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