'Few Of My Favorite Things' - Damascus Ward Relief Society Christmas Social.

How blessed are we?

When you think of everything we have in our lives, be it, home, family, children, food, or 'favorite things', are we truly blessed? I, myself, will say, yes! Wholeheartedly.

Others may say, oh, heck no. My life sucks, I wish I had this or that, life hasn't dealt me good luck, etc... Etc.

Yet, we are alive. We have our health, our body. Some, however,  have ailing bodies and suffer illnesses, disabilities, etc. 

Now, when you think of 'favorite things' what is the first thing that comes to mind? Books, movies, TV shows, chocolate? Or...the famous song sung by Julie Andrews in  The Sound of Music? 

Well, besides that song and everything else I suggested, 'my favorite things' also means - my church women's, Relief Society Christmas social. And, that is what we had last night. A fun gathering of women, enjoying each other's company, having dinner and cake, talking about favorite things, and just having fun.

This, of course, takes hours, days, and months of planning for a couple hours of fun. But, it's worth it to see everyone enjoying themselves and getting to know each other better. Even if it's knowing someone loves, lemon chicken, lemon rice, sunny days, cloudy days, twirling, singing in the car, having friends, etc. etc. 

We decided this year to use brown paper sacks, filled with a star cookie cutter and a saying from an Etsy site called 'papertagged'. I used my Cricut to make the tags with a little difference and tied them to Christ. 

'For you are one of HIS favorite things.' Instead of 'These are a few of our favorite things.'

I went simple this time around, displaying a few of my fav things - Artwork I painted/drew, pictures, Welsh wool Blankets from home, my dad's cardigan, and slippers. (Today would have been his 82nd birthday today- he passed on the 5th Dec - two days before his birthday last year) The cardigan my mam got me for my 30th and last but not least British chocolate.

Sarah brought a picture of the Temple, Kim brought a statue of Christ, Becky brought her nativity

I had sisters, including myself, make/buy cakes for our table centers which were our desserts.

Sarah made German Chocolate Bundt

Kim got a gluten-free Bundt cake

I did a Boston cream with Ferrero Rocher

Annika made a peppermint cake

Shauna made a lemon cake!

I must say a huge thank you to all the wonderful ladies who helped me set up, Sarah, Annika, Narce, Eunice, and all the sisters who helped clear away afterward.

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