Gift Guide & Anti Pajamas
Happy Holidays! This episode is all about gift ideas for those unique recipients. Hope it's helpful, and it's gauranteed to make you laugh with this boozy deliciousness...
Gingerbread Egg Nog White Russian (from Delish)
(Serves 2)
- cinnamon sugar for rimming glasses
- 4 oz egg nog
- 4 oz vodka
- 4 oz Kahlua
- 3 t molasses
- 1/8 t ginger
- whipped cream for topping
- molasses drizzle for topping
Wet rims of each glass and dip them in cinnamon sugar. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine egg nog, vodka, Kahlua, molasses, and ginger. Shake to combine. Pour into glasses and top with whipped cream, and then add molasses drizzle.
for the traveler:
- Travel books
- National Park passport
- Art print of a favorite place they traveled
- Barrel makeup bags with drawstring
- Hydroflask
- Sudio sweden earbuds
for the foodie:
- Cookbooks - Depending on the kind of cook they are can be complicated or simple: Dinner a Love Story, How To Celebrate Everything, Thug Kitchen Cookbooks or NYTimes always reviews cookbooks.
- Good quality cooking utensils such as a nice cutting board or handmade dish towels
for the minimalist:
- Something very good quality or consumable
- Trader Joes 3 in 1 shampoo, conditioner and body wash
for the reader:
- Kindle Paperwhite
- Bag for library books I Like Big Books and I Cannot Lie
- Jen Hatmaker’s For the Love
- Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter
- Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale
for the person who has everything:
- Hummingbird feeder
- Beautiful calendar Charlie Harper or Nikki McClure
- Photo momentos
- Experience gifts, tickets to something they enjoy
for friends/family who live far away:
- In a cold climate - bag of fat wood from LL Bean to start their fires
- Something from a local artist where you live, or local brewery
- Family gift including family game, fun snacks, gift card
- Airline tickets or gift card towards trip to visit
for the new mom/dad:
- Frame a favorite picture of the new little family
- Freezer breakfast burritos
- Ornament with "Our First Christmas"
- Photo session
- cleaning/lawn service
Holiday tipping logistics:
The Girls Next Door holiday tipping rule: "If they touch your body, or your diapers, they get a tip."
For daycare teachers:
- Dish towel, Mrs. Meyers soap and a hand-written thank you note
- Starbucks gift card, small candle, and a hand-written thank you note
- Can you tell the "hand-written thank you note" is the important part?
In current obsessions, Kelsey's obsessed with this lovely white noise machine and Erica is dreaming of a white Christmas, literally.
In neighborhood news, find out how the holiday light situation is coming along, and which neighbor is inexplicably against pajamas.