I love this time of year when Christmas is in full swing. Our tree is decorated with ornaments collected through the years, mantle adorned with swags of fir, and Christmas music playing throughout our house – O Holy Night and Handel’s Messiah being my favorites.
And it is in the spirit of Christmas I am happy to announce a special giveaway on Savory Sweet Life. Ree Drummond’s cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
In October I posted my review of “The Pioneer Woman Cooks” along with a giveaway for a signed copy. Since then I’ve enjoyed cooking and eating our way through it with joy. My favorite recipe so far is Rib-Eye Steak with Whiskey Cream Sauce. I love all things Pioneer Woman – I have no shame confessing this. Ree Drummond is an amazing woman with an incredibly generous heart. So it’s with much excitement to announce that Savory Sweet Life in partnership with Ree, is giveaway 10 copies of The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
What is very special about this giveaway is that four of the ten copies will be given away to members or their spouses in the US Military. I appreciate the men and women and their families who serve this country sacrificially. My little sister will be leaving for her 2nd deployment to the Middle East in a few weeks – its to honor her I’m setting aside copies for military personnel.
To enter the giveaway just share a favorite part of Christmas or this Holiday season in the comment section. And if you are in the US Military or married to someone in the US Military please make a note of this as well. Giveaway is open to US mailing addresses only including Military AFO/APO boxes.
Contest will be closed 1 week from today on Friday, Dec. 11th at midnight PST. Merry Christmas!
*Giveaway is now closed and winners have been announced here
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I love the traditions in our home of making candies cookies and especially ginger bread houses. I love Christmas morning and the look on my children’s faces when they see all Santa has left.
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My favorite part of Christmas is being with all the people I love, and getting the chance to show them what they mean to me. The Christmas songs rock too!
My favourite holiday tradition…is being with my family. We get out the Christmas china on Thanksgiving day and use it until Epiphany. And we always have lasagne for Christmas dinner. Other things are repeated yearly: Christmas Eve services, Christmas Carols, watching our children open presents, seeing the lights, reaquainting ourselves with ornaments as they are unwrapped to put on the tree. No matter where we live, we have these things that we always do.
We are an Air Force family, living overseas in Italy. We feel fortunate to be together at Christmastime and to be living overseas, representing the US.
Thank you for having the giveaway!
I love this time of year because it always proves that there is good in the world. I love the decorations, T.V. programs and the music. And the most important part of this time of year, the FOOD! All the time spent in the kitchen over a hot stove and in front of a hot oven….LOVE IT!
I love spending time with my family and taking part in all the wonderful traditions we’ve established over the years.
My favorite part of Christmas is spending time with family members and cooking/baking together in the kitchen.
Every Christmas Eve we have dinner with family friends…we are on our 28th consecutive year! All of us kids are grown…but we definitely try our best to all meet up! More recently, there has been a theme, reindeer hats, dress up, etc. Afterwards, my family watches the 1970 version of the movie Scrooge with a very young Albert Finney. During the Ghost of Present section, mom brings out cider or cocoa while my dad portrays the Ghost by wearing a candy wreath on his head. 31 years later….still laughing!
My favorite thing at Christmas is looking at all the lights, including my own when I can get them up! And decorations I have had for years….and having cookie swaps!
My favorite part of the Christmas season is listening to Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God musical. I can listen to it year-round, of course, but now it actually helps me appreciate and anticipate celebrating the birth of our Lord.
The traditions are most treasured of all. My husband’s great-great-great grandmother’s sugar cookies, the Christmas morning coffee cake, taking 3 hours to open gifts, (not that many gifts, just a lot of good stories, laughter)
having EVERYone home and the kids excitement on Christmas Eve.
Oh, and cannot forget to mention, baking baby Jesus a birthday cake and taking a piece to him in the outdoor nativity scene at church.
I love sharing time with all the family that comes into town and making yummy food!!
I love the Christmas music! And ugly sweater parties
My husband, Jason is Active Duty for the US Army; we’re based in Fort Campbell, KY. He’s on a two week training and gone till the end of this week. He’s been to Afghanistan once over last year and part of this year. We expect he will be deployed again mid-late next year. This will be our first Christmas as a married couple. The best part about Christmas is being able to celebrate with family. We are not going back to our “hometown” for Christmas because we want to share this Christmas as a new family together with our puppy, Moo. Jason might be deployed next Christmas.
PS. I love cooking and my husband loves when I cook. I’ve been borrowing cookbooks from the library because it’s free. I would love to have one of my own though.
My favorite part of the holidays is getting together with my grandmother, mom, and aunt to bake cookies together. I find that food in general (not just during the holidays) is more meaningful when it is made with or for loved ones!
I love making homemade Christmas candy!
I love the quiet of Christmas Day and being with my family. And the cookies.
My favorite part of the holidays is eating all the great food that is only made for this part of the year. I’ve never been too active in the kitchen until I married my husband and moved to the South where he is stationed. My husband is Active Duty Army and his term is nearly halfway done. As a military wife, I’ve picked up a lot of household duties and I would never imagine myself to become such a Suzy-homemaker (and like it!).
My new found love for cooking and baking has sparked great confidence. I really enjoy making a lot of the cuisine my husband and I use to eat at restaurants back in our hometown along with newer foods. I also like sharing these recipes with his co-workers. I feel really proud when they say that the food tastes great because it inspires me to learn more recipes and to continue my work in the kitchen. I truly believe that food and dining brings people together.
Definitely spending time with family and friends!
I sooo love decorating our Christmas tree with Christmas music on all evening! Just gives me warm fuzzies!
My favorite part about Christmas is family traditions. I love the togetherness that the holidays allow. Every Christmas we have spent married we have always visited our extended family. Last year, my husband, who is in the army, was in Afghanistan. Since this is our first Christmas together in 2 years, we decided that we wanted to start our own traditions because he might not be home next year.
I love Christmas music and can’t wait for Thanksgiving every year so I can start listening! The glittery, glitzy, beautifulness of the tree and lights and candles. Picking out the perfect Christmas cards to send and opening the mail box to find cards with pictures of nieces who live too far away for me to see regularly. And I love that it’s cold in the south at Christmas, just wish the snow would make it down here too!
Every Christmas Eve, we get together at my Grandmother’s house. She has the same spread on the table year after year and the same Christmas music playing. The same people all get together and the tradition and familiarity it has just makes all right with the world!
This holiday season is my first away from the town where I grew up – and I’m 39 years old! I’ve no idea what my new traditions will be.
My favorite part of the holidays, besides mom’s cinnamon coffee cake, is honestly just getting to see my family. I live across the country from the rest of my family, and I don’t get the chance to see them very often. Christmas is the one time of year everyone makes a huge effort to get together, so I love it.
Family get together with a potluck feast on Christmas Eve.
What I love about Christmas the most is the time I spend with my family. We have alot of family traditions which are special to me. Our newest tradition is baking all different types of cookies for family and friends and then hand delivering them to each of families we baked for!! My mom, sisters, and I have a wonderful time in the kitchen even though it takes approximately 10hrs + to do all of the baking!!
Candlelight services on Christmas Eve! Mom’s chocolate pie. Watching my daughter get excited over all the presents.
I love the smell of a fresh Christmas tree in the house. I wish I could have one all year round. Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite part of Christmas is seeing the lights in the eyes of our children. My husband is currently deployed on his 2nd tour to the Middle East and so that is always the one thing that cheers me up. This is his 2nd time missing Christmas and it is never the same without him.
We take the kids, bundled up in their pj’s, set them up in their carseats with blankets, pillows, and a thermos of hot chocolate, and drive around looking at the lights until they fall asleep.
Sometimes it takes hours. But that’s part of the fun.
this is incredibly lame, but my family has cinnabons every christmas morning. my dad picks them up at the mall food court on christmas eve. trans fats be damned, NOTHING is better than my yearly cinnabon.
I love the rush of the last minute present wrapping my husband and i go through every year!!!! The yummy christmas cookies decorating with my children…and the excitement of my children waiting for Santa to leave the presents!
Christmas music and baking cookies!
I love decorating the house: lights, candles, greenery. I love how peaceful the world is on christmas eve – even in the middle of a city: Seattle and San Francisco anyway – never been anywhere else on Christmas eve!
Another, more recent favorite is my friends of different faiths sharing their traditions
I have so many favorites during the holidays. Decorating our home, inside and out, going for drives to look at holiday decorations in other communities, making sugared nuts, cookies and p.butter fudge to send to friends across the country, and even the hectic, frantic pace that often accompanies last minute shopping!
Bless you for honoring our military families, and bless your sister for her continued service. I’m not part of a military family or community, but have been mailing packages to deployed servicemen and women for five years now – 900 pounds to date! Regardless of one’s thoughts about war, our troops need to be supported, to know that they have the love and good wishes of everyone at home.
My favorite holiday tradition is the annual craft and bake off i have with my friends. We spend the whole weekend in Christmas PJs doing all of our holiday baking and crafting projects together. We get lots done and it’s more fun since we’re all together.
I love the Christmas baking…first with my own boys when they were little, and now with my grandson. Decorating the tree with all of the ornaments that they have made through the years is another special part of Christmas for me.
I love the way a Christmas tree smells. That, and the way it looks with lights and ornaments… that just makes me happy.
P.S. I love the Pioneer Woman too.
My grandchildren moved from OK to WI in Aug of this year. Having had three beautiful daughters, I am particularly intriged by these two special little boys ages 4 and 2. They are coming for Christmas and I am taking the entire time off to spend special, but hopefully non stressful moments with them during this Blessed time of year. Their trucks, new words and feats of childhood will fill my holiday in a special way. Love to have a cookbook, missed PW when she was here due to illness. Blessings to those overseas and their very dear families at home. My husband served during Viet Nam. They have all made our “holiday” possible.
I love baking lots of goodies and walking around town to see the pretty holiday lights and decorations.
One of our favorite traditions is getting milkshakes on the way home from picking up our Christmas tree. Picking out the tree feels like the official kickoff to the holidays, so we’re always excited and giddy. Throwing a milkshake into the mix just puts it over the top. YUMMY FUN!
I love making Chanukah cookies and latkes and lighting the candles for 8 nights. I also love Christmas lights when the entire tree is lit. I’m a sucker for tree silhouettes
My husband is active duty Air Force and my favorite thing about Christmas is making our own traditions for just our little family. We haven’t been back home for Christmas in 8 years and instead made our own “things”. Such as, we always have a baking weekend and then take goodies to the security forces members that have to work the gate on Christmas Day.
I love white twinklie lights against a background of red and green; the smell of pine and fir; and the taste of our family’s version of Party Mix!
I love the twinkle lights on the family Christmas tree. My parents have gotten a live tree (with the root ball attached so it can be re-planted) for years, so I love seeing all the old trees outside as well – we’ve even found tiny ornaments left in the tree after a couple of years.
my favorite holiday tradition is, without a doubt, getting a Christmas tree & decorating it while drinking hot chocolate & listening to the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack!
My favorite part of Christmas are the lights and decorations. I always feel a sense of peace when I sit in front of a lit tree.
My favorite part is trimming the tree while listening to my mom’s all-time favorite carols from Mannheim Steamroller.
I love driving around looking at Christmas lights. That’s when it feels like Christmas!
I love being with family and knowing that no one has anywhere else to be. We can all just relax and enjoy one another’s company.
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