Maple sugar sounds so yummy!! I prefer ham over turkey too! We like to smoke them on the grill with pineapple and brown sugar.

The best present I ever got was from my boys. It wasn't for any occasion it was a random gift from their heart.

We had a concession trailer when they were younger and we had it at a festival one weekend. I was trying to make snow-cones fast enough to keep up with the demand. It was hit that day. The boys were running around to the different booths at the festival and kept coming and asking me for money. After several trips, they came back and wanted more, stressed out I lost my temper with them and told them no.

I saw them talking to their dad and I figured he gave them the money they wanted. He's a push over when it comes to them and it made me angry because they had gotten enough money from me and I told them no.

After the festival, I was cleaning up the sticky mess from the syrup drippings, and the boys, and their dad, walked up with a box in their hands and gave it to me.

I opened it up and it was a decorative wall plaque. It was beautiful! It IS beautiful!! They knew how much I love outside and the flowers and birds. It was a heart shape entwined with flowers and a hummingbird. Their dad told me that they wanted to the money earlier to buy it for me. My heart melted, I felt horrible about how I had snapped at them. It is something I will keep always.



Do you believe in Santa Clause?