{"id":200,"date":"2009-12-17T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckinabox.com\/blog\/files\/holly_daze.php#unique-entry-id-180"},"modified":"2009-12-17T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T20:16:12","slug":"happy-holidaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckinabox.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidaze!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday my mother and I went to Keris Christmas Tree Farm<\/a>. I know the owners of the farm. They’ve been customers of mine for years and I recently found out about the farm. So, this past Sunday my mother and I went. It was a cold and rainy day but it was still a nice visit. The trees (from what we saw) looked beautiful. On the grounds there were a few structures up, the main one was a Christmas shop. All kinds of odd and not so odd Christmas ornaments and decorations. Right when we walked in there was Santa sitting next to the fire place. I KNOW HIM!!!! He gave us a candy cane each. My mother bought a couple of unique looking ornaments. Outside there was another structure that was giving away hot cocoa, coffee and warm apple cider. We both had the cider from a big pot and it was DELICIOUS! As we were pulling away I noticed another barn in the back with a sign that read “barbecue”. I wish it wasn’t so miserable outside, I would have certainly investigated that.<\/p>\n

On Monday Big Rick and I went down to Philadelphia to pick up honey balls from Cosmi’s Pastries<\/a>. We went there last year during Christmas as well. Cosmi’s makes the best honey balls. He also got me a tray of Italian cookies for helping him out. They sure were good!<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago a customer of mine gave me the coolest gift. He works in television and he knows how much I love TV and he got me the series finale of Battlestar Galactica on DVD. I mean, that in itself is awesome, but what he got me is even more awesome, it is the DVD that the Sci-Fi network gives to the judges of the Emmy awards. It turns out that he’s one of the judges and gave me this special DVD. it’s packaged in this red cube that is labeled “For Your Consideration”. It’s so sweet. I’ll post pictures later. I was about to take some but my camera isn’t working. My sister broke it! Check back soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday my mother and I went to Keris Christmas Tree Farm. I know the owners of the farm. They’ve been customers of mine for years and I recently found out about the farm. So, this past Sunday my mother and I went. 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