Santa,

When I saw my gift was shipping from Tripler I went and made a note for you in my notes to Santa. it doesn’t looks like you retrieved my info after that. I want you to know you could have sent me a sulfur block you know da kine that smell like rotten eggs. Coming from the big pink hospital on the hill you could have done no wrong.

My mom grew up on the island. She met my dad when he was stationed at Pearl. They got married. My older sister was born at Tripler. The navy sent our family on many journeys. Before my dad retired he requested to go back to Pearl so my mom could see her family again. We lived there when I was 8-10 years old.

When we first got there,there wasn’t room in housing so we had to live at the Ramada. While at the hotel I went to Nimitz elementary school. At that school the librarian had a book that was wrote by my great-grandmother called From Madeira to the Sandwhich Islands. She gave me that book.

Once we got into housing I went to Aliemanu elementary and my sister went to Mona Loa intermidete. While we lived there I met so many family members. I have so many memories from cheerleading to crab fishing off my uncles pier off Kam hwy to the big family luaus where we cooked the pig in the ground at my uncles and my love of poi.

Not to mention I learned to swim at Tripler.

That being said I was beyond estatic waiting to see what memories of my childhood and family might be coming to surprise me.

I can not tell you how excited I was to open my box. Even more excited to get Da Keto Box which you made with love.

It’s no secret that I am working on my weight. I’ve lost 22 lbs since Halloween. So you can imagine I was scared of being sent food/candy/snacks because I’m working really hard to control the amount of sugar and carbs I am eating.

Yet you gave me a box of treats that work well with my eating plan. I won’t hear my husband asking me if I have anything for snacking on for a while.

So without further adu the contents of my very personalized Da Keto box

Mona Loa dry roasted macadamia nuts with sea salt

Mona Loa Maui onion and Garlic macademia nuts

Kona coffee - chocolate macademia nut flavor

Keto protein - chocolate flavor with bone both

Tiki hawaiian gourmet Beef jerky -island bbq

Tiki Hawaiian gourmet bacon jerky - monsoon maple

Fat bomb - macadamia with coconut

Fat bomb - macademia pecan with sea salt

4x epic bar - chicken jerky sesame bbq season

Pepe’s estriol casserole dipper chi Barron’s on grata cracklins- fried out pork at with skin

As long as I watch portion sizes it is all awesome!!!

Portion control is a biggie for me right now

Anyways Santa I love you so much!!!!

Mahalo!