Have you started your Christmas baking?  I spent yesterday morning in the kitchen baking away.  It's therapeutic for me to create in the kitchen.  Everyone in the family has a favorite baked goody they look for around Christmas, so it takes a couple of days to get it all done.   I had Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song playing softly in the background and the kitchen was growing warm from the oven working overtime. As they say where I grew up, "I was in hog heaven." When it came time to make my snowmen on a stick, I fired up the [...]