Happy Holidays!
Yeah, that was the only time she cried yesterday. Santa is evidently quite scary. Does it make me a horrible Mom that I laugh every time I see this? Probably.
Here she is seconds later, thinking “GET ME AWAY FROM HIM”:
And here she is minutes later:
She recovered. Here’s her new favorite thing to do-kiss HERSELF:
I’m ignoring the germs.
In other news-I got up this morning and went to the gym. I ran on the treadmill and it sucked. I feel great now that I’ve done it but while doing it (with no headphones to watch tv) it was PAINFUL. I got through it though. I’m now eating my oatmeal and Barney Butter and I packed a delicious lunch for the day. Today is going to be a GREAT day!
Yesterday I made some more pumpkin butter! To go along with theme of this post (HAPPY HOLDIDAYS!) I’m going to do a a pumpkin butter giveaway!
Pumpkin Butter Giveaway
Since the pumpkin butter is not technically shelf stable (even though I DID can it) I’m going to need to overnight the frozen pumpkin butter to you. You’ll need to be able to receive a package from UPS on Friday, December 11th (that’s this Friday) and I’ll only be able to do U.S. Residents 
If you’d like to enter, in the comments, tell me what your favorite holiday food is. I’ll use a random integer generator to decide on the winner. The giveaway is open until 12 noon on Wednesday, December 9th. I’ll announce the winner after that and I’ll need your address in time for my UPS stop on Thursday!
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Yay pumpkin butter!
I normally eat really low-fat foods so at the holidays I always go crazy for brie. One time I needed to bring an appetizer to a holiday party and forgot, so I found some raspberry preserves, heated it up in the microwave so it turned into a liquid and poured it over the brie, and topped it with chopped nuts and dried cranberries. It cooled back down to a more jelly-like consistency and was so delish! Definitely the fave of the holiday party and now it’s a staple on my holiday menus!
Yum Pumpkin butter!!
My favorite holiday food is what we call Mouse House. Its spinach dip in a sourdough bread bowl. So yummy!!
Poor Lu!!!! I hated Santa too and NEVER sat on his lap!!!
YUM! I love pumpkin butter! My favorite holiday food would have to be stuffing. I love stuffing with turkey and cranberry sauce..yum!!
Really cute blog!
My favorite holiday food is the desserts in general – specifically the Christmas cookies. Yum!
Have a great Monday!
Well, I generally believe my birthday should count as a holiday :p But otherwise, I love Christmas. I love the feeling of magic, the few moments where hope and possibility seem to live, and people can find the joy in the holiday season, even if only briefly.
i think my fav holiday food du jour is pumpkin chocolate chip walnut muffins! yum! and pumpkin/chocolate chip/walnut steel cut oats!
Ha! Favorite holiday food, not favorite holiday. My bad. It was always my mom’s swedish apple pie.
Gingerbread anything. Gingerbread coffee (trader joe’s), gingerbread bagels (panera)….and of course gingerbread cookies
my fav holiday food is pumpkin dip with old fashioned gingerbread snaps!
i LOVE pumpkin butter!
and my fave holiday food… wow, that’s tough. probably my mom’s twice-baked potatoes. it’s one of our christmas eve traditions.
I love pumpkin butter! That looks awesome.
My favourite holiday food…Any Holiday? I love Rosh Hoshana food. My stepgrandma makes the best homemade challah, almond cookies and shredded wheat honey/walnut pastry. As well as these homemade noodles with seasoning on top. I don’t really love Thanksgiving food that much, except for the roasted vegetables that I always make, but I do those all year round. And Hannukah food is just ok. I don’t love Latke’s, unless they’re baked. I probably eat more bread than normal on holidays.
My favorite holiday food is stuffed celery. Celery with a cream cheese mixture that has mayo, celery salt, pecans, green olives with pimentos. I would love to win, I’ve never had pumpkin butter.
You have the cutest little girl! I love those pictures of her. hahaha.
I love pumpkin butter!! hope I win!
Can’t wait to read more of your blog
Yay for pumpkin butter!! My favorite holiday food is ANYTHING pumpkin and gingerbread. Use them separately or combine them, they’re so versatile! Baked goods, appetizers, breads – you name it, they all taste delicious
PS – I can’t help but comment on how adorable your daughter is!!
Sweet potato anything!! I love all sweet potato dishes for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Dessert is a very, very close second and I’m very flexible for dessert.
Awww poor Lucy. I wonder if something is wrong with me that I was NEVER scared of Santa??
My favorite holiday food is actually.. TEA! I went to the “other” market today and I found holiday teas. I was so excited I bought 4 boxes. Now I have no place to put them!
AMAZING GIVEAWAY! I don’t celebrate xmas, i celebrate hannukah and my fav holiday food is potato latkes with applesauce! MMMM
sweet potato casserole!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YUM NUMS
my favorite holiday food is tamales. it’s a mexican tradition to make tamales on christmas eve!
cookies! I am “good” all year and don’t really eat cookies but I let myself eat the really good homemade ones this time of year!
Favorite holiday food? That’s tough! I have so many!
I love snickerdoodles though!
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My favorite holiday food would be pecan pie!
My favorite Holiday food is fruit cake. Most people do not care for it, but I always have to eat one slice of fruit cake.
My favorite is gingerbread cookies!
It’s a toss up between cranberry sauce and sweet potatoes!
i love anything pumpkin or gingerbread around the holidays! so delicious! great giveaway!
ps that picture is so cute!!!
Oh I love me some pumpkin butter! How sweet. I love gingerbread men this time of year. I eat the icing off first and then the actual man!
My favorite holiday food is chocolate covered gingerbread men…delish!
I love cookies!
Omg is it wrong that I love those crying baby pictures, so classic!
My favorite holiday food is chestnuts and cranberries! My favorite ways to make salads feel like the holidays!
Definitely pumpkin pie frozen yogurt! They only have that flavor during the holidays, and I literally wait all year since I LOVE all things pumpkin
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Pumpkin butter! Yumm! My fav holiday recipe is fruit cake.
my fav christmas dessert is peanut butter blossoms
jenna
I LOVE pumpkin butter and this looks great. My favorite holidy food is sweet potato casserole.
Great giveaway! My favorite holiday food has to be gingerbread. So delicious!
My favorite holiday food is sugar cookies!
my favorite holiday food is anything pumpkin flavored! although i’ll admit that i stock up on pumpkin things in the winter to carry me throughout the rest of the year! haha.
My fave holiday food would have to be our homemade stuffing!
Fun Giveaway! I love cranberries/cranberry sauce; I buy as many bags of fresh as I can cram in my freezer!
i loooove potato latkes (i celebrate hannukah), i try to make them healthier by not using so much oil and using sweet potatoes instead but they are just so yummy!
Ooh yum pumpkin butter!! My favorite holiday food is my mom’s pumpkin cheesecake. Very appropriate!
Mmmm…anything Peppermint is my favorite, cookies, mochas, etc.
Thank you so much for the opportunity!!! I’ve discovered an intense love for pumpkin bread this past Thanksgiving!
My favorite holiday food is sweet potato casserole. I love dessert masquerading as a side dish
Hi Chelsea,
I’m glad to have found your site (through Rhodeygirl!)
Please enter me for the giveaway- that looks delicious! My favorite holiday food would have to be the cadbury cookie tins that my family in Ireland always have handy. Taste like childhood!
Thanks for the heads up about your give away!! I would love to try your pumpkin butter!!
My fave holiday food is peppermint anything – especially ice cream!
Cute blog – I am off to explore!
Pumpkin Butter is delicious! One of my fav holiday foods is my mom’s cranberry bread…yum!
One of my favorite holiday foods is spaghetti squash! Great giveaway!
My favorite holiday treat is my mom’s ginger creams…they are divine!
Love the blog! You’re officially on my “favorites” list.
My favorite holiday foods is roasted butternut squash! mmmm!
Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite holiday food is the fresh homemade cranberry dishes.
I love that you are using a random number generator
Hi Chelsea! My favorite holiday food is chocolate fudge-I love that stuff!!!! Followed closely by frosted sugar cookies. DH’s is anything pumpkin though!
My favorite holiday food is anything sweet that my mom makes. She works hard all year long and only has time to bake when the holidays arrive so she goes crazy with baking and I get to take advantage of it!
I love the yule log because it’s so much fun to make and decorate
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My favorite is making homemade cookies of all sorts!
hmmmm sweet potato casserole