Good morning! Just a little bit of time here before Coffee Cup and I make a mad dash for the office! 🙂 I had to share with you that last nights book club was so much fun! We had our annual Christmas meeting where we potlucked with delicious foods at Kaydi’s home and discussed our book, Home for The Holidays by Rebecca Kelly. I will post our review later but need to say that for this lovely light holiday read, we pulled a great discussion out of it!
This was also our 100th meeting so I had brought a cake for this celebration. We joked that it took up a little over 8 years to get to 100 meetings… to reach that 200 meeting goal we would be ….. well….. older.
Finally we wrapped up our night with our gift exchange. We each bring a gift averaging around $10 and we wrap it up. We roll dice and if you get a seven or doubles you get to choose a gift. Once everyone has chosen a gift, we go one more round with the dice and if you get a seven or doubles you can trade your package with someone else that may look more tempting. Then we all open them and show off what we got. I got two good looking reads, Santa is a Stetson and Sugar Cookie Murder along with some bath soak. Love it!
I am so thankful for this incredible group of women!
Book Journey 
Seems like a fun evening-How is Benny doing?
Hi Esme – thanks for asking. The most current info I have is on my Benny link – on the left sidebar if you click on Benny’s picture it will take you to it. 🙂
Sounds like an enjoyable night! Glad you had fun.
Thanks Zia!
Sugar Cookie Murder is a great book! I love that series and this has a ton of great recipes in it. Glad you had a good time!
Oh good Ladytink! I thought it looked good and the recipes will be fun!
Sounds like you had a great time! Congrats again on reaching the 100 meeting mark! Love the idea of rolling dice for the gift exchange! May just have to steal that one… 🙂
Thanks Alexia, the dice game does work out well – feel free to use it 🙂
Sounds like a lot of fun. I am doing a similar type of thing with my book club next week. Thanks for sharing.
Have fun Jemima!
Oh, what fun! You have quite a group. Sounds like you have lots of fun reading, etc.
We do have a great group and 3 of us were missing! We are currently 18 members.
You guys really go all out., don’t you! “Play hard or go home!” LOL
LOL Lynne! 🙂 We do like to have fun!
WOW..this is impressive, 8 years you’ve stuck together, and enjoyed (hopefully) must of what you read. The cake looks yummy.
I know Diane, I cant believe it. 🙂 I would say most of our book choices have been pretty good and even the ones that weren’t still can make for a fun discussion.
Thank you Sheila for being our leader. We love you!! I really thought we were going to rip this book apart, (verbally) but I was happy for our discussion on traditions, TRADITION!! Shalom.
Hey Kaydi – I was really impressed with how the meeting went and the discussion was really fantastic. I loved hearing about the different traditions and Angie’s pictures were incredible!
Aw. What a great group! Gongrats on making it to 100 meetings!
Thanks Jody!
I hear the Joanne Fluke books are great fun!
I just heard that too Lisa. I am kind of excited to read this one!
Congrats on reaching 100 meetings!! Both books look really good and the cake is beautiful!!
Glad you had such a great time!
Thanks Vicki! 🙂
What a great group of women!!
I think so too Staci! 🙂
Congrats on your 100th meeting! Sounds like ya ‘ll had a great time! 🙂
Thank Julie – we did have a great time!
Way to go! What a fun group. 🙂
Yeah J Kaye, they are pretty awesome… we have had some crazy times together… 🙂
What a fun evening, they seem like such a great bunch of women. Are you familiar with the Fluke books? They are a lot of fun…”Lake Eden” is probably not far from you, as Hannah’s younger sister has to head a little over an hour south to attend Macalester in St. Paul!