{"id":1845,"date":"2009-12-07T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2009-12-08T08:28:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:28:31","slug":"christmas-party-treats-december-7-daily-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/christmas-party-treats-december-7-daily-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Party Treats, December 7 Daily Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yvonne's

Yvonne's strawberry yum yum<\/p><\/div>\n

How many holiday parties will you attend this December?\u00a0 How much food will you consume?\u00a0 How many dishes and treats do you look forward to at the different parties?\u00a0 Above you see what is left of\u00a0 Aunt Yvonne’s strawberry yum yum. Last Thanksgiving she made something else instead, trying to change up the old routine.\u00a0 I missed that dish so I told her.\u00a0 This Thanksgiving she told me that she felt so bad all year that\u00a0 she made it for me this Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Oh, how I love that strawberry yum yum.<\/p>\n

What is your favorite holiday dish or treat?\u00a0 Is the reason because it is so delicious or because someone you love gave it to you as a child?\u00a0 Is it because that taste brings back wonderful childhood memories?\u00a0 Whenever I smell cinnamon bread baking in the oven I am a child on Christmas morning again.\u00a0 Mom would always bake cinnamon coffee cake on Christmas morning and that smell will always be linked to Christmas.\u00a0 We also have the old tradition of green bean casserole and the question of who the recipe belongs to my mom or Aunt Mary Kay the mystery still exists today.\u00a0 It’s not just about the food but about the people who bring it.\u00a0 All good gatherings usually involve food.<\/p>\n

Church is the same way but not many people have that perspective.\u00a0 We go to Church and gather as a family, regardless of the religion, we are family. We greet each other at the sign up peace and for Catholics we join in the meal and come to the table for the Eucharist.\u00a0 We are feed and we pray together.\u00a0 We trust together, we rely on each other’s support, friendship and love that each week we can return to this place of family to be nourished and renewed.\u00a0 If you have not been to Church in awhile attempt it this Christmas season.\u00a0 Look around and notice faces you have missed, feel the support of the family, open yourself up to God’s love and pray together.\u00a0 We are all family and I believe that God loves to see us participate as such.<\/p>\n

This Christmas season as you go to parties for family and friends enjoy the treats like strawberry yum yum, made especially for you by an Aunt that loves you dearly.\u00a0 Appreciate the love you feel from the presence of friends and family and be renewed by the relationships that support and strengthen you.\u00a0 Christmas parties are not about food it’s just part of the experience of being nurished in the love of God’s family.\u00a0 Taste it, enjoy it, and take the time to really be a part of it at the parties and at Church this Christmas Season.<\/p>\n

I had a few people request the recipe for Strawberry Yum Yum so I asked Aunt Yvonne and she gave it to me.<\/p>\n

Pretzel Jello<\/div>\n
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2 cups\u00a0 ground pretzels<\/div>\n
l l\/2 sticks butter<\/div>\n
2-8 oz. pkgs. cream cheese<\/div>\n
2 cups of sugar<\/div>\n
2 pkgs. Dream Whip<\/div>\n
2-3 oz. strawberry jello<\/div>\n
2 cups pineapple juice<\/div>\n
2 small boxes frozen strawberries<\/div>\n
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Mix 2 cups ground pretzels with l l\/2 sticks melted butter.\u00a0 Press into 9xl2 pan.\u00a0 Bake l0 min. at 400 deg.<\/div>\n
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Cream 2-8 oz. pkgs. cream cheese with 2 cups sugar.\u00a0 Spread over pretzels.<\/div>\n
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Whip 2 pkgs. Dream Whip (as directed), and spread over cream cheese mixture.<\/div>\n
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Dissolve 2-3 oz. pkgs. strawberry jello in 2 cups boiling pineapple juice.\u00a0 Add frozen strawberries to jello.\u00a0 When mixture starts to gell, spoon over Dream whip.\u00a0<\/div>\n
Refrigerate!<\/div>\n
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Hope everyone enjoys this as much as you do:)<\/div>\n
Love,<\/div>\n
Yvonne<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Christmas season is in full swing and I feel sure you each have parties to attend. What holiday dishes and treats do you look forward to the most? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[129,122,379,53,134,403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}