A holiday classic! Makes about 38 1/2 cup servings.

Ingredients:
12 eggs separated
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups bourbon
1/2 cup brandy
6 cups milk
ground nutmeg
1 cup heavy whipping cream

Instructions:
1. In large bowl with mixer at low speed, beat egg yolks with sugar. At high speed, beat until thick and lemon colored, about 15 minutes, frequently scraping bowl.
2. Beat in bourbon and brandy, one tablespoon at a time to prevent curdling. Cover and chill.
3. About 20 minutes before serving, in chilled 5-6 quart punch bowl, stir yolk mixture, milk and 1 1/4 teaspoons nutmeg.
4. In large bowl with mixer at high speed, beat egg whites until soft peaks form.
5. In small bowl, using same beaters, beat cream until stiff peaks form.
6. With wire whisk, gently fold egg whites and cream into yolk mixture until just blended and serve.

8 DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS...GIFTS AND GIFT CERTIFICATES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE SALON.

It's Christmas at the Stahlbaum home. There's a huge tree, and many guests arrive to celebrate with the family. Clara's godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, makes magical toys. He entertains the guests with two life-sized dolls that dance around the room. Then he gives Clara and children a very special gift of a nutcracker. Her brother, Fritz, is jealous, and grabs the nutcracker and it gets broken! Clara is very upset, so Herr Drosselmeyer repairs the doll before handing it back to her.

Soon after, all the guests leave and the children go to bed, Clara gets up in the night and goes downstairs to get her nutcracker from under the tree. She falls asleep there and is transported into a Christmas fantasy where her nutcracker has grown to the size of a human. When the Mouse King attacks, the Nutcracker Prince tries to valiantly defend young Clara, but is struck down in the battle. Clara in turn saves her Nutcracker Prince by throwing her shoe at the Mouse King and defeating him.

With the nasty Mouse King out of the way, Clara runs to the Nutcracker Prince. When she kisses him, he turns into a human! then she and her Prince are whisked away through the Enchanted Forest, where they see dancing snowflakes and other wonders. Then they travel further to the Kingdom of the Sweets.

Nine days until Christmas. I have gift certificates available, if you need a stocking stuffer or last minute gift idea.

Hawaii was amazing. The average temperature was 83° during the day and 79° at night. We went scuba diving two different days. We were down around 95 feet on a ship wreck and we got to see some very large eagle rays. There was a group of about 18. We dove a cave and a reef too. I can't name the numerous things we saw (sponge crabs, pillow star fish, shrimp, turtles, eels, different fish, etc.). It was amazing. 

Kevin and me at the Mahi shipwreck; about 75 feet down. And, yes, everything is really that blue under water.

The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;--
The happy days unclouded to their close;
The sudden joys that our of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


I will be spending the next week with my husband. The salon is CLOSED Tuesday the 6th thru Wednesday the 14. I will return all call on the 15th. 

A person's genes determine the hair color since before his or her birth. The determinants for hair color are known as melanocytes. These cells form the natural hair colors, or pigments and distinguish between black, brown, blonde and red. Depending on the percentage of each pigment, the person has blonde, brown, red or black hair. As the melanocytes decay and you begin to lose pigment , the hair becomes a gray or a whitish color.


If you do not like the hair color you have, we can change it. I use Goldwell hair color and products. Stop in for a free consultation or schedule an appointment. 446-1313

Do You Know Your Christmas carols?

Can you answer these Christmas carol riddles?

1. Exclamation, Member of the Round Table with missing areas.

2. Vehicular homicide was committed on Dad's Mom by a precipitous darling.

3. Wanted in December: Top forward incisors.

4.The hotel room of two psychiatrists.

5. The lad is a diminutive percussionist.

6. Sir Lancelot with laryngitis.

7. Cup-shaped instruments fashioned of a whitish metallic element.

8. Exclamation, small Israeli Urban Center.

9. Kong, Lear, & Cole--That is us!

10. Duodecimal enumeration of the Passage of the Yuletide Season.

11. Far off in a hay bin.

12. Leave the broadcast from an elevation.

13.Our fervent hope is that you thoroughly enjoy your Yuletide Season.

14. Listen, the windged heavenly messengers are proclaiming tunefully.

15. Jubilation to the entire terrestrial globe.

16. Do you perceive the same vibrations that stimulate the auditory sense organs?

17. Parent was observed osculating a red-coated unshaven teamster.

18. May the Deity bestow an absence of fatigue to mild male humans.

19. An event that arrived on a cloudless witching hour.

20. Uncouth Dolt with the flaming proboscis is aware of the nature of precipitation.

21. As the guardians of the wooly animals protected their charges in the dark hours.

22. I beheld a trio of nautical vessels moving in this direction.

23. Small, wingless, bloodsucking insect that has a father in Armada.

24. Punch out the passages.

25. Query Regarding Identity of Descendant

26. Proceed and Enlighten on the Pinnacle

27. Give Attention to the Melodious Celestial Beings



1. O Holy Night
2. Grandma got run over by a reindeer
3. All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth
4. Nutcracker Suite 

5. Little Drummer Boy
6. Silent Night
7. Silver Bells
8. O,Little Town of Bethlehem

9. We Three Kings
10. 12 Days of Christmas
11. Away in a Manger
12. Angels We Have Heard on High

13. We wish you a Merry Christmas
14. Hark,the Herald Angels Sing
15. Joy to the World
16. Do you hear what I Hear

17. I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
18. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
19. It came Upon a Midnight Clear
20. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer

21. As shephards watch their flocks by night
22. I saw 3 ships
23. FELIZ (fleas) NAVIDAD
24. Deck the Halls

25. What Child is This 
26. Go Tell It On The Mountain 
27. Hark the Herald Angels Sing 


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One of my favorite things to do during the holidays is watching Christmas movies with my kids. Two of my favorite Christmas movies are 'A Christmas Story' and 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'. I like movies that make me laugh and these two movies always make me laugh. 

I never get tired of watching everything go wrong when the Griswold family tries to plan a traditional family Christmas or Ralphie trying to convince his parents, teacher and Santa that he needs the Red Rider BB gun. 

Take some time to watch a good Christmas movie with your family this month. Enjoy each other and the time you have together.