It's a wonderful life!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and was able to feel the magic of Christ's love with family and friends. It's been so wonderful being home and getting to see friends and family. 

Every Christmas for the past couple of years, my family has started the tradition of watching It's a Wonderful Life. If you've never seen it, I highly suggest it! It's the BEST Christmas movie, and I would consider myself somewhat of a Christmas movie expert. It's a great movie that reminds you how important family is and it also shows you how much of an impact you can make, even if everything hasn't gone according to your plan. This movie never fails to make me tear up and appreciate the important things. 

I'm updating this blog after Christmas ( shh...sorry to let the cat out of the bag). Anyways one of the teachers I work with was asking me what I got for Christmas. I got lots of great things (boots, giftcards, clothes, money) but when she asked me that, what popped into my head wasn't the most expensive gift I received, nor was it the prettiest. Instead it was a small little assortment of Marzipan shaped into little fruits. Marzipan is an almond paste that is actually pretty tasty and it can be molded into different shapes, usually used for decoration.

Well, when my GrandMary was alive every Christmas we would make a cake together. One year in particular we decided to get fancy and make some sort of Yule Log cake that called for Marzipan for the decorations on top. We could not find it anywhere. We called one of the local bakeries , sure they would be able to help us out, but then when my grandmother called and asked if they had any Marzipan, the employee responded, "Uh...Sorry ma'am we don't have that kinda pan here." She was putting marzi-pan in the same category as bunt pan, cookie pan, frying pan. We laughed about that for years and it's one of my funniest memories of my GrandMary, so when I unwrapped that small gift this year, it really made me smile. I ended up making a blueberry lemon cake that my GrandMary used to make and I was able to top it off with a little Marzipan! To me those little things are what make Christmas so special! ( Don't worry, Jesus being born is pretty special too) :)