Cinnamon and Wine Gums

Some Christmas traditions:

Cinnamon.
T hates cinnamon and won't eat anything with that particular spice in it, but she loves tortierre. Tortierre is a tradional French Canadian meat pie and we have it for what we call "Reveillon", it can be made with cinnamon in it, which D often does - hence the giggles. I'm amazed that she can't figure it out from the smell when you cut into the tasty warm pie! After T left for mass I mentioned it to D and all she did was shush me. Community life is funny sometimes.

Wine Gums.
It's become standard practice for me to get two particular gifts at Christmas. Wine gums are my favourite tasty snack (with twizzlers a close second) and have become a typical gift for me to find under the tree. Half of them are already gone as this year we shared Christmas with me neice and nephew early so they could go be with their dad for Christmas.

The outfit.
The other standard gift. My mom and my sister both know that I am more or less hopeless when it comes to clothes shopping (I was a tomboyish character growing up and a vow of poverty keeps me from buying too many clothes other than the essentials - like socks and underwear). So they get together and buy me a nice outfit that I can usually mix and match with some of the other items in my closet.