OKMH December Reveal
Once around the sun we’ve gone and once around the One Kitchen Many Hearts circle as well. Somewhere amongst all of the people on the Twitterverse, Blogosphere and the tenticalian webs of the internet the six of us have not just become friends, but soulies. And it extends so much father then that and into all of the other fascets of our lives.
One call to arms and these women baked to their hearts out and rallied the forces to help Beka and I raise money all in the name of Crohn’s and Colitis research and poop. And after these nearly two years as friends, this friendship that begun via computer screens and food obsessions has full circle. Last month I spent the weekend with Kirsten in Virginia at MixedCon and recently joined Allison here in Seattle for a little nosh, a little dessert and a whole lotta laughs.
For the month of December to bring a little added cheer to the proceedings, a Secret Santa was organized and never in my life has a secret been harder to keep. In my instance, I got to spend the weekend with Santa recipient. Nope, not difficult at all.
And as a Secret Santa Recipient myself – my Santa went All Out and by some miracle, everything arrived in tact. I say “by some miracle” for the sole reason that the mass of mail carriers somehow conspired against us to break nearly one thing out of all of our packages. Maybe this season they actually decided to do their jobs. And my secret Santa – Mads of Le Petite Pancake did a phenomenal wrap job on this one.
The “Mail Surprise Every Other Month Club” brings us all unequivocal joy each and every time. What we give and recieve has so much thought and love behind it and I absolutely adore going shopping to pick out just the right gifts for each of my sisters from other misters. This is the kind of love that makes the world go ’round. And if gives me a reason to spend money and Ben can’t whine at me for it. Win-Win!
Us gingers just get eachother. Even if I am a bottle ginger.
The beast was OVAH’ Joiieedd. The six inch antler has now been wittled down to a three inch antler. Huck can get pretty into a bone, but this one has taken the top spot – even over the covetted blankie he hauls around like Linus.
Remember that pesky little issue we had with our mail carriers?
Ms. Mads made extra certain that my last gift arrived intact. Success!! Now with those 300 half burned candles from my wedding still in my house shoved into every possible cranny of storage space – this will throw light like nobody’s business and I’ll always have something shiny to remember her by.
The OKMH force is strong with us. So much love and thought it put into every gift, it just warms your heart. I can’t say enough about these women, these strong, beautiful, hilarious, self sacrificing, off the wall, women.
Stop by their pages and check out what they received from their Secret Santas!
This is so sweet!!
How cute! You 6 are an awesome group of ladies that I’ve come to befriend over time! I need to taking wrapping/shipping lessons from Mads!
I’m so glad Huck liked the antler! Josie loves hers, although I think she wishes she had a stronger jaw bone to tear it to shreds.
Merry OKMH-mas!
I love that Huck got a present too. I want to squeeze that guy, so cute!
I love the ginger candies. We got hooked on them during our Vancouver trip. I’m all about the candied ginger now. I even put some in Mad’s ginger cookies I sent in her OKMH box. Tip – also great dropped into a cup of hot tea. It just keeps getting stronger as you drink. I love that you have a plethora of post-wedding candles to use in your new mirrored candle holder. Perfect! Merry OKMHmas, Megan! Hugs to you, Ben & Huck.
Antlers are awesome – Zooey darn near lost her mind the first time I got her one.
While ginger is not my thing, I cried laughing at the note – totally perfect!!!!
But my avidity part of all these posts???? I think we all said something about how “she gets me.” Just goes to show that teh interwebz can help us find our bloggy soulies without match making!!!!
How fun! Love that candle holder 🙂
1. I am MADLY in love with that candle holder-situation. I feel like I need a hundred of them for my house, except for the part where it would make my house look more like some sort of horrific romantic movie scene than anything else.
2. I totally cracked up about the beast-beast bit. That’s a gem.
Happy OKMH-mas and lots of love from The Tundra.
xoxo
Kat
OMGosh! That candle holder is a Magpie’s Dream! My most favorite part of OKMH is reading what’s on the post-it notes.