Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Christmas

My house is beginning to smell like Christmas and I love it! This is my favorite thing about this season. My mom found this recipe somewhere and I make it every year. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. (It makes a great hostess gift too!)

Christmas Scent

3 - 4 inch cinnamon sticks

3 bay leaves

1/4 cup whole cloves

1/2 orange

1/2 lemon

1 qt water

Mix all ingredients in a sauce pan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer as long as you want. Add water as needed. Cool and store in the refrigerator when you're done simmering.

Happy Chicken Day??

For the second year in a row we went to Chick Fil-A for Thanksgiving. Our friends that own it have opened up their restaurant to us and those that don't have family in for the holiday. We all bring something and eat to our hearts' content!

Our kids are beginning to think this is what Thanksgiving is all about . . . and I guess it is. We have come to find our Ridgeline friends to be our adoptive family in Cali. It is fitting that we spend Thanksgiving with those we love!