Today hasn't been terribly Christmasy unless one counts browsing the Christmas aisles at Hobby Lobby and TJ Maxx. But the 5 inches or so of new snow from yesterday are giving everything a "White Christmas" look. Very cold weather is on the way, so this snow is likely to stick.
I have worked today at composing some Christmas emails to missionaries our church supports. Our missions team has been racking our brains to try and think of good ways to encourage our missionaries and so for December we are trying to fill their email inboxes with personal messages. I designed a graphic to use for the two emails my hubby and I are sending this week, as we are trying to tie each week's emails to the various themes of Advent.
I did enjoy my browse through the Christmas aisles and ended up finding a few gifts. I also picked up some Christmas-themed parchment paper which will be lovely to use in wrapping kitchen gifts.
At BJ's, my hubby got a gigantic bag of chocolate chips to use in making cookies and fudge. At Ocean State Job Lot, he found raspberry and apricot preserves and lemon curd to use in his cookie baking.
I also got out my list of holiday ingredients that we refer to every year, to see what we still need to buy for our Christmas cooking and baking. There are a few things, so those will go on the grocery list.
And ... we received our first Christmas cards in the mail today!
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