Happy New Year 2017

Wishing you a Happy New Year 2017!

I will put my decorations away this week.  Do you have a lot of gifts to return or exchange?  I tried to return a gift card at one store only to learn they are  not returnable or exchangeable, something to keep in mind.

A nice cup of hot chocolate

M, K and I were in a restaurant recently and K ordered this nice cup of hot chocolate. We had $15 left on a gift card and wanted to use it up.  Are you good about using all your gift cards? We ended up ordering a calamari appetizer and a dessert platter to share. They gave us lots of delicious bread rolls to scoop up the calamari! K didn't want coffee so he asked for the hot chocolate.

I found this interesting book review in the local paper recently.  The book is 'Wave' by Sonali Deraniyagala.  'After losing her entire family in the 2004 tsunami, this mother finds her future by tenderly piecing together the past'.