12 Days of Christmas Day 9 | Holiday Greetings from Texas {presented by Queer Town Abbey}

Greetings from the great state of Texas ya'll! And thank you QTA for setting up this world wide tour of Author's sharing their Holiday traditions from across the globe. 

My favorite Holiday tradition that we have in my home is buying a new ornament for our tree every year. From baby's first christmas, to ornaments that represent things each of us enjoy in life like my oldest sons soccer ornaments, to hand made things like my daughters hand blown glass ornament from ten years ago, or my youngest sons snow man hand print ornament. We have ornaments on our tree that are thirty or more years old! It's a way for us to really bring our tree alive with unique and treasured things that span a lifetime of memories. 

We have a blast here in my house setting up the tree, we listen to Christmas songs while we wrap our gifts, we cover every open surface in the house with Christmas candles and bobbles and trinkets, we really do just love this time of year. But presents, decorations and traditions aside, the most important thing about the Holiday's is getting to spend time with friends and family that we don't get to see as much as we'd like throughout the year. So while you are celebrating, buying gifts and partying like a rock star, try to remember those less fortunate as well. Toy's for Tot's - Book drives - Angel tree donations - your local food bank. These are also things that we do every year in our home, we always try to remember those that aren't as fortunate as us. 

What Holiday traditions are important to you and your family? Feel free to share by leaving a comment below, each comment will be entered into a drawing for an ornament directly from my home to yours this Christmas! {US only shipping, I do love you all but international shipping requires three forms of identification, your first born child and a secured loan from Ft. Knox!}

Be sure to follow all the Authors that are sending Holiday Greetings from around the world...

Day 1 - Guest Post Susan Mac Nicol

Day 2- Guest Post Nic Starr

Day 3 - Guest Post Sara Daniel

Day 4 - Guest Post Declan Sands

Day 5 - Guest Post Morticia Knight

Day 6 - Guest Post Iyana Jenna

Day 7 - Guest Post RJ Scott

Day 8 - Guest Post Megan Derr

Day 9 - Guest Post TM Smith

Day 10 - Guest Post Ryan Field

Day 11- Guest Post Sarah Madison

Day 12 - Guest Post Christopher Stone

{All the 12 Days of Christmas posts can be found here: 

http://www.queertownabbey.com/blog/categories/events}

May god keep you and bless each and every one of you this Holiday season. Merry Christmas from my home to yours. Cheers!!! 

Tasty Texas Pecan Pie

Prep time 20 mins - Bake 1 hour then cool

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of sugar

3 tablespoons all purpose flour

1 cup light corn syrup

1 cup dark corn syrup

3 eggs

1 teaspoon white vinegar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup chopped pecans

pie crust (pastry, pillsbury red box will do)

In a large bowl, whisk the sugar, flour, corn syrups, eggs, vinegar and vanilla until smooth. Stir in pecans. Pour into pastry shell. Cover edges with foil.
Bake at 350° for 35 minutes. Remove foil; bake 25-30 minutes longer or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. 

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