Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Year blessings to each of you dear friends! This season has been a blur of activity for us - and I'm sure for you too. It seems the days slip by more and more quickly. Here we are with CHRISTmas come and gone for another season, and the New Year of 2024 upon us! It has been a busy but wonderful season of remembering our Lord, and the love He showed us by coming to save us 2000+ years ago! 

I don't often share about my own personal writing journey, but many of you readers do know that I have written a book - Through Love's Eyes.  Because it is that time of year when people are looking to buy gifts for those they love, I wanted to share a few new things with you that may be a blessing to you in your search for a special way to bless your loved one this Christmas season! 

Yes, it's that time of year when all the nasty bugs that multiply and grow in confined warm spaces begin to make their rounds.  Our family was visited this past week by one who decided to stay and visit us. Not welcome at all - we hit the bug hard with all the tools in our "Keep Healthy" toolbox.  

I was the first one to succumb to the bug, but I was only sick for about one day. As soon as I started feeling a scratchy throat, I began to take extra vitamin C and drink lots of water. The next day, I began to run a fever, had aches, chills, and just general malaise, and my head was congested.  My fever only lasted a few hours as I began drinking elderberry tea.  I also took Quercetin, vitamin C, vitamin D, and some cold medicine.  

My husband also got "bit by the bug" within a few days.  I made him some of the elderberry tea as well, and his fever broke within a few minutes of drinking the tea! It really made a believer out of him! He only missed one day of work, and I was sick for one day as well. 

Elderberry syrup