Here’s another holiday staple that I do not care for – fruitcake. Now there is this thing called a Chantilly cake that has fruit in it that is delicious. It is nothing like fruitcake though. The fruit that is in the fruitcake looks so unappealing. My mom would buy one of those square fruitcakes that…

Are you a fan of eggnog? I’m not. Now I’ve never actually tried it but there are some things you just know you will not enjoy like paying taxes. My mom really likes it. It’s very rich in calories and definitely a treat. She buys it from the store so pretty sure it’s the non-alocholic…

It’s a Christmas tradition to go look at Christmas lights. I love it and wish we could normalize having such decorations all year. Now I’m terrible about putting up Christmas decorations as we live in chaos so adding decorations to it just doesn’t make sense. But this year maybe I will decorate a small space…

That’s good enough for me. The Cookie Monster is my favorite monster. I have a sweet tooth. Christmas cookies are the best cookies. My mother-in-law made the best sugar cookies that we would then decorate with homemade icing. Those were delicious and a tradition that we have done a few times over the years but…

It’s natural to feel excitement and dread for the holidays at the same time? There is so much to do that would be fine but you already have everything else you normally have to do as well. I like my free time and the holidays encroach on that so much. But it’s also so much…