Photo: Bill Tennant

My parents sent flowers!

We also had a Latke Off! for Hanukkah. I made latkes from purple potatoes.
. . . and Scott's latkes came from a box. They were beautiful looking. They totally tasted better, too.
I didn't have any Hanukkah music so we settled on the soundtrack from Dirty Dancing.
I made caramel corn for my mom from this recipe and promptly ate half of it myself.
If you had told me last year at this time that I would close out the year as a homeowner and the feature of an episode on HGTV I would have laughed and laughed. Happy new year!