15. My aunt in law bought me and my husband plane tickets home to surprise his parents for Christmas. I hadn’t been home for Christmas in twelve years. He hadn’t been in 3. It was amazing to see the looks on their faces.
16. Growing up my grandma made this incredible fudge for Christmas and guarded the recipe with her life. No one knew how it was made and everyone loved it. A few years before she passed I finally got the recipe out of her – a list of the ingredients and one sentence.
That in itself was one of the best presents I’ve gotten in my life but it took me seven Christmases to get the recipe right and this year I finally did. I brought it to work and shared it with my coworkers and that was such a joy.
