Tag: Christmas
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When are you doing your Christmas baking?
I can’t remember when I started baking chocolate goodies to gift my neighbors at Christmas, but it has been long enough that it isn’t a gift anymore, it is a given. It’s not an “if,” it’s a “when?” Yes, with a question mark. Because people do ask. “When are you doing your Christmas baking?” Apparently […]
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Like it never even happened…
I spent the first day of the year erasing the old. It was dreary and drizzling and too chilly to attend to the outside Christmas lights this morning, and so I began my day by defrocking the Christmas tree and putting away decorations inside the house. By the time I’d dismantled the interior of Christmas, the […]
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A throwback at Christmas…
Last night, my oldest sister sent a text that included the photo at left, above, and the sentence, “Recognize anything besides Tal in this photo?!?!” At first glance, the precious photo merely captured the Christmas card my nephew Tal and his little family sent this year — though not to my mailbox. (Hmmm…) But my eyes […]
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The quiet of Christmas…
I’m not sure if my son sees only what he wants to see or if he truly doesn’t notice the sticks accumulating around our wooded lawn. As the youngest and only Dagen child remaining at home, he has the dubious honor of being needed for chores — one of which is picking up sticks and […]
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Christmas: Memory vs. photographs…
You oughta be in pictures, You’re wonderful to see, You oughta be in pictures, Oh what a hit you would be! * Al Bowlly should have sung these lyrics directly to my parents. As the youngest of five children, I was not in pictures often, and my scrapbook is proof. Not a single photo of […]
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To tree or not to tree…
The answer? To tree. Or bush. My husband will accept either. He just won’t accept “not to tree,” which apparently includes the little sunflower arrangement in full Christmas tree position. Typically, we purchase a live (dying) Christmas tree the weekend of Thanksgiving; our goal is to get the freshest tree and enjoy it the longest. […]
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Last one and done…
This afternoon I delivered the first box of Christmas chocolates — two pounds of caramel brownies, fudge, chocolate peanut butter balls, chocolate mint cookies, and toffee, all individually wrapped, making three layers in a small white box that has become my trademark in recent years. It was both anticipated and enthusiastically received. To me, the […]
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Anticibaking…
Once a year, I reserve an entire three-day weekend — Saturday, Sunday, Monday — for my Christmas baking. This is that weekend, booked in advance. Even a huge achievement such as the State Finals in high school football could not lure me away from my kitchen. (I’m sure I would be amending that if my […]
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Mosquitoes in December and more excuses…
It was now or never. If I didn’t get the outside Christmas lights up this weekend, I knew I wasn’t going to bother. It was warm (record high for our city), I had better things to do, and it was a mere three weeks until Christmas. I had not maximized the use of my Christmas […]
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Glorious en masse…
On Monday, I traveled with my son’s choir to Epcot and was transported to the glories of Christmas our culture seems bent on dismissing. Fifteen of the choir members were selected for the privilege of participating in the Candlelight Processional, reportedly the most popular show throughout the entire year in all of Disney’s parks. It […]
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