I rarely get mail, let alone non-bills in the mail. My husband asks, "what's SilverWingsofMorning again?"

"Hey, give it here. That's for me!" I reply.

I am so stoked for this gift.

There is a cookbook, but also a giant cookie cutter of a Kiwi Bird. I am thinking Gingerbread Birds, or Stained Glass Birds. I am truly excited about this cookie cutter. I bake a lot of cookies, this past weekend I taught my mother-in-law to bake a basic sugar cookie, chocolate frosting, and a basic chocolate-chip chocolate cookie. I do enjoy cookies so much. Thank you for the cookie cutter. I can't wait to use it.

The cook book is great too.

(I am now typing this from work and going off of memory) The food dishes are all dishes that are great filling foods. Something that you would make for people, who you want to feed with great tasting stuff. I have cookbooks, where the only reason the dish seems to exist, is to impress someone with your ability to find Artisan Sea Salt that was raked with sustainable harvested scrap metal rakes by blonde virgins from the isles of Japan - but if you can't that, store bought is fine.

My Santa highlighted several recipes, the two that I remember as I type this are:

Coq du Reisling - from what I glanced over before I left for work; Cooking with Wine! I'm sold! Love wine!

Chocolate Truffles - which is interesting, because I was talking about trying to find a truffle recipe and wanting to learn how to make them. This makes it seem like my Santa has some telepathy going on.

I really appreciate these gifts, that it was hand-wrapped, and all the little personal notes.

You really know how to gift!