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I just found this thread"" i feel like I have been missing out!! I loved reading all the posts! We love xmas in our house. I baked like 12 loaves of an awesome blueberry struesel bread that my friends rave about and I don't even have one for my own household! I guess I need to make more! I also tried a new recipe for fluffernutter chocolate chip bars! So easy and yummy!
@Delaney I never had success with my cookie press. I saved your recipe. By the way Delaney is my daughters name!
 

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One of our family favorites is a pinwheel cookie, but not exactly like yours. I remember as a child (okay so I still do it) taking those cookies and eating the row of green off, then going for the row of red or white (whichever was next), and eating the cookie row by row. :)

My Mother's favorite was like the pinwheel, but instead of a second dough color, that layer was a jello (not made silly, the dry straight from the box jello) :)
 

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I just found this thread"" i feel like I have been missing out!! I loved reading all the posts! We love xmas in our house. I baked like 12 loaves of an awesome blueberry struesel bread that my friends rave about and I don't even have one for my own household! I guess I need to make more! I also tried a new recipe for fluffernutter chocolate chip bars! So easy and yummy!
@Delaney I never had success with my cookie press. I saved your recipe. By the way Delaney is my daughters name!

Does the bread use frozen blueberries? *asks the person who has four large bags of them frozen up in the freezer*
 

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@Jacqui Yes, I use frozen and run hot water over them so they don't slow the cooking down in the middle of the bread.
 

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I think the secret is the cup of sour cream and the topping you bake on top.
 

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Yes, i need to grab the kids from school and figure out how to post pics again! Its been awhile. I may need to type it up .
 

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It's nice to share recipes with each other. My Mom made us all promise to never share her recipes, but my sister and I sneaked a few out for cookbooks along the way. ;)
 

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I was thinking about presents I have gotten through the years and one really stands out in my memory. It was when I was a child, maybe like 5th grade. That was when I was getting into fish. We had a couple of fish bowls, but I wanted an aquarium. I think I bugged my Mom as much about getting a tank, as I did about that pony I never got. Now in my childish mind, I saw this huge tank all beautifully set up. As a child, I also never took into consideration how tight money was in the house. Looking back, I am not sure how my Mother managed it, but she did get me an aquarium. It was only 10 gallons, but it made me so very happy. It's sorta funny to realize how much that one tank meant, as I look around at all the ones I have now and had almost worthless I think of a ten gallon being. Still that tank holds a strong place in my mind this time of year.

What gift or gifts meant a lot to you as a child?
 

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I was thinking about presents I have gotten through the years and one really stands out in my memory. It was when I was a child, maybe like 5th grade. That was when I was getting into fish. We had a couple of fish bowls, but I wanted an aquarium. I think I bugged my Mom as much about getting a tank, as I did about that pony I never got. Now in my childish mind, I saw this huge tank all beautifully set up. As a child, I also never took into consideration how tight money was in the house. Looking back, I am not sure how my Mother managed it, but she did get me an aquarium. It was only 10 gallons, but it made me so very happy. It's sorta funny to realize how much that one tank meant, as I look around at all the ones I have now and had almost worthless I think of a ten gallon being. Still that tank holds a strong place in my mind this time of year.

What gift or gifts meant a lot to you as a child?
When I was 11, (this was actually before I had any reptiles!) My mom got me this beautiful necklace with a crystal tortoise on it.
She said that toys had lost value to me, and she wanted to give me something that would last forever (I mean, it's REALLY nice) And though I hate jewelry (I don't have pierced earso_O ) I wore it everyday for 3 years, until I accidentally dropped it into the river here, and I was way more careful with after that. :(
This necklace means so much to me because my mom tries not to encourage reptiles in my world, but she really embraced it.:(
When she was 10, her mom had a severe heart attack and dies a few weeks later, and she gave my mom this white gold cross (no chain, my mom got one) and she wears it everyday... everyday for over 30 years. :<3:
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Here's another one. :(:rolleyes: So our mailman 'Mr Kevin' had been our mailman for years. My family were on great terms with him, and we give gifts and say hi... and it wasn't really a big deal for a long time, it was just sort of 'neutral', you know? And then two years ago for Christmas, he gave us this glass heart ornament (the kind that looks like lace) and then just after New Years, he died. Every year it hangs on the tree, but it means a lot! :(
 

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Okay! Here is the BEST looking cookie EVER-
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-it looks soooo great! And the dough is just even better ;) but it tastes sooo good! Very dry.
 

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@Yellow Turtle01 If I email you the blueberry streusel bread will you post for me? I had to retype it and my kid had a 8am soccer tourney and I was gone all day. I don't have time to figure out posting pics today. You can PM me.
 

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i remember back in the day when i believed i santa christmas was so fun, i was ways got up at 5 i the morning and ran to the tree. but now it seems so boring:( i miss those days.
Nowadays, I despise the idea of santa... it's just cruel... IMHO...
See, Nick, memories are importent :D
 
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