Merry Christmas 2015

It has been a long time since I posted on here, but I have been posting on Instagram. Since last checking in, I successfully completed another semester of Pharmacy school and Seong was accepted to an online Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner program. Right now it feels like we are being pulled in different directions, but we take every opportunity to be together. Our hope is that we will be able to settle down in a few years, but right now we are relying on God for the big picture and our daily lives.

Wasn't our tree so cute? It's our first real tree, so we had tons of fun picking out the gold and red ornaments and finding a topper. At first I thought the bird was strange, but Seong reminded me that the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus "like a dove", so I thought that was cool. Anyway, we don't have very many Christmas traditions, except Christmas cookies!
In the middle of December, the ladies in my family got together to make cookies to last through the season. It's our tradition to make certain cookies, including Russian Tea Balls, Struffoli, Cartellate, Pecan Cracker Cookies, and Tassies. This year we tried to make some of them with natural sweeteners, and were very successful with the Russian Tea Balls and Tassies! Instead of cracker cookies, we just made candied pecans. But we just couldn't alter the Italian fried dough cookies at all, although we did use slightly different ingredients for the honey glaze. We used doTerra Wild Orange essential oil instead of orange peels and some delicious honey from Seong's grandma in Korea! 할머니, 감사합니다!



Oh my, they were so yummy. Our standard Christmas season breakfast became eggs, coffee, and cookies!
For Christmas this year, we stayed in our home in Washington, and were so blessed to have Seong's parents join us! Never were there more relaxing days. We ate such delicious, homemade Korean food!

I hope you too had a fantastic holiday season! Now it's back to the grind.