As I'm heading outside this morning to get the newspaper (Kids, a newspaper is like a website made out of trees!), I see this giant box sitting in the middle of the entryway. My 84 year old mother went out to get the mail the night before and it was there, but it was so heavy that that was as far as she could bring it inside the house! When I opened it up, I understood why it was so heavy!

Inside the box was pure joy for me. First thing I saw was the new Bill The Cat book by my favorite cartoonist, Berke Breathed. I've been wanting this book ever since it came out. I'm such a huge Bloom County fan! This is the greatest!

Next, was a little tool to cut donuts out with! My aforementioned mother is currently on a donut kick. I am being sent out at least a couple of times a week to bring back donuts. At some point, I had mentioned that I should probably start learning how to make them, because what would be better than fresh, homemade donuts?? Nothing!! I think my mom was most pleased about that part of my gift.

That right there would have been plenty, but there was still more! There is a three-tier baking, cooling rack thing that is just amazing! I'm trying to be a better baker and bake as often as I can, but I only have one cooling rack and not a lot of counter space, so this is the greatest thing! I will be making macarons either tonight or tomorrow and this is going to get a lot of use immediately. I can't wait!

But I think the coolest thing is this giant cookbook by Vincent Price. I was reading an article a while back and it mentioned that Vincent Price had a cookbook and it was out 50 years ago (I had no idea!) and they were reprinting it for the 50th anniversary. It looked amazing and so I put it on my Amazon Wish List to remind myself that it was there. Well my Santa got it for me and I so happy! It is a beautiful book and there's so many great things inside this book. You can read stuff, you can make stuff, it's all there! I love it so much! And it's almost 500 pages, so I'm going to really have a great time working my way through this for the foreseeable future!

I'm not really used to sheding a couple happy tears that early in the morning, but that might have happened today. This was one of the most awesome and thoughtful gifts I've ever received from anyone. I love it so much. Thank you so much for the time that you took in picking these items out for me. I'm so grateful and so appreciative! You're the best, Santa! Merry Christmas!