Merry Christmas to all those who Celebrate. With love and best wishes to all for a happy, healthy New Year!

Tonight, I am making a traditional Christmas dinner for my children (who are all home! a rare but very much appreciated occurrence) and others in my family. Even though I’m Jewish, Christmas has always been a time of gathering together, love and cozy food.

In the US, I absolutely loved it when Christmas coincided with Hanukkah (which is based on a Lunar calendar so it varies every year, much like Easter does) so we could all celebrate together 🥰

Of course, with a high today of 32+ 🥵, cooking will not be as fun as it is in the US where we would be hoping for snow and an early sunset…but, whatever! Christmas in Australia never disappoints.

For those who celebrate, may you have the most wonderful Christmas. I hope you are surrounded by the love of family, friends and others.

I apologise to all of my Jewish friends for not sending out a Happy Hanukkah wish but as you know, I was blocked from using Substack during that time. I hope your festival of lights was wonderful and, seeing what happened on the first night, peaceful as well. Am Yisrael Chai!

And for everyone here who has supported me throughout this last year (which has gone by in about 10 minutes - am I right?) I appreciate you all!

Happy New Year and may you all be blessed with good health, abundance in all things and all the love you could possibly handle!

Love,
Meryl

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