Thank you Mom and Dad for the beautiful flowers! I was not expecting them...I was just surprised by the disgruntled looking delivery lady at my door. I almost felt I should take a flower out and gave it to her, hoping that might help whatever made her day go sour!

The flowers are sitting on my the coffee table. I'll take a picture of them and send it maybe tomorrow. It is raining, cold, and blustery here today making it too hard to take nice pictures. Thank you so much! They brightened the day and they're almost as good as getting a hug from you!

Now I have the family picture up on the fridge and the up north picture up too. We nearly polished off the cookies already. By the way Mom, the cranberry bread was the best! It wasn't too sweet, it was a little tangy, nutty, and had a yummy orange hint to it. Thank you for sharing your butter cookies with us Dad. I am feeding "girly" well. I hope she won't go into a fiesty frenzy when I attempt to cut out most sugar after the new year...


Hope you are feeling better Dad. Did you get the espresso machine working yet? A really yummy treat is an esspresso in frothy cream.

Love you guys,

Danielle

Ps. Cyrus, I'm sorry I didn't get to talk to you on Christmas.