After presents, Christmas makes me think of food. For most children of my generation, food immediately brings up Mom. For me, it's a time of special cookies and candies, especially fudge. Peanut butter fudge was always my favorite. All through the year things might seem slim as far as treats go, but Christmas time would seem to unleash a whole array of confections that every child would look forward to, even surpassing Halloween. After all, that was only one night. Christmas would go on for two or three weeks. Through all this, Mom would help us share something with others, as we'd work on gift packages of cookies and candy to give to relatives and family friends. It was a wonderful time.
So, in this week of Holiness, thoughts of sharing and food go hand in hand. Warm glows of kitchen stoves heated up to bake Christmas cookies and pans with fudge, ready to be poured and cooled, then eaten, all fill my head. I hope children of this generation can have some memories as good as that when they're much older.
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