Wow, Wednesday night’s #GiveDeerCheer Twitter party with Dancing Deer Baking Co. was fun and sweet. Now when I say sweet, I do not mean sweet because of the Dancing Deer baked goods – although they are delicious – but because of all the memory sharing and reminiscing that we did.
In case you missed it or hoped to win a gift basket but didn’t, you now have a second (and third) chance because, drum roll please… I am giving away TWO top-selling Holiday Gift Baskets*
Before I share giveaway details, I must share more about the Sweet Home for the Holidays Gift I ordered from Dancing Deer. It contained (note the past tense): 16 cookies and 8 brownies, including 8 Molasses Clove, 8 Triple Chocolate Chip, 4 Chocolate Chunk Brownies, 4 Caramel Sea Salt Squares (to die for!) and one artfully packaged Sweet Home cookie. AND 35% of the retail price goes to One Family, Inc. scholarships to help homeless and at risk parents further their education. I may have a few to gift… or maybe not.
I adored how lovely the packaging was – the house the items came in was perfect. When I opened the box, there was a card that identified when the items were packaged, and each cookie and brownie was packaged as shown below.
My favorite from the assortment were the Caramel Sea Salt Squares since they were the least sweet and I am slightly obsessed with caramel. My husband likes the spicy bite to the Molasses Clove cookies and my daughter ran off with the Chocolate Chunk brownies. My son commented that the Triple Chocolate Chip cookies were better than Daddy’s cookies – I wish I had a taken a photograph of my husband’s face after that statement.
The only item we have not bitten into yet is the Sweet Home cookie. The packaging is so cute that it makes me feel a little guilty from ripping into it, but I suspect I will get over that once we finish off the remainder of the goodies.
Now on to the giveaway: To enter, simply leave a comment answering this question: ‘What unique holiday gift-giving traditions does your family have?’
The giveaway ends on December 19th, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. The winner will be randomly chosen and must respond within 24 hours of being notified or another winner will be chosen.
Plus, I secured a promotion code just for you all! Sweet, right? Order from DancingDeer.com within one week using code Thyme25 to get 25% off.
*Winners will receive the Sweet Home for the Holidays Gift or a gift of equal value
Disclosure: I was paid for my time and given a gift basket. All opinions are my own.
The Frugal Exerciser says
We try to go ice skating on Christmas morning and we always stop for hot chocolate afterwards.
Sonya Nickerson says
My Husband makes an ornament each year that has meaning to us for that year. We have one for each year our babies were born, our 1st year together, our 10th, a special trip we took…. He even made one for me after my Lab passed away using her collar and id charm.
Trish says
We open just one gift on Christmas Eve … the rest wait until Christmas morning.
Sydney A says
We all get matching pajamas on Christmas Eve!
Angelica says
My sister, brother & i have 10 children all together. We always buy a gift for each one of them! It’s so fun to my 4 kids open their gifts as well as see my niece & nephews open their gifts! They are all blessings & I love them all!
rica says
We get each other favorite childhood candy as stocking stuffers. Not really gift gift but tradition.
lovinglyfree says
We make each others favorite dessert that the other makes and package it as pretty as possible then exchange on Christmas Eve.
Kristine deMello says
My mom aka “Big Grammie” creates a scavenger hunt for all the grandkids! It is fantastic how they work together to solve the clues and find the next little gift! It is fun for the entire family.
Angela Hendricks says
Our gift giving traditions are we exchange and open our presents on Christmas Eve and then we wait for Santa to come! But of course we fall asleep while we wait 🙂
Melody says
All of the adults pull one name from a hat. We do a gift exchange that way each person doesn’t have to spend a fortune and the gifts are so much more personal. I love doing it this way.
Diane W says
We have a nice lunch and go to a new movie.
Maggie C says
We always go out as a family to the movies on Christmas Day (1st show at noon!). Something we have been doing for the last 8 years.
kara kjellman says
We add everyone’s name to a bowl and draw a name!
Elizabeth Mc says
Always baking our famous Chocolate Chip cookies on Christmas eve!!
chasity smith says
We always open our presents by age. The youngest to the oldest for the first round and then circle back around 🙂
LaTanya says
We draw names to buy for one person instead of the whole family
diamondslady812 says
during the year when we visit each other we sneak an item out of each others home and wrap it up for Christmas as a joke b/c a usually its a spoon coffee mug knick knack nothing of real value and if the person didnt miss it at all Its time to donate or recycle just an inside family joke
niki petersen says
Every year we draw names and either make or buy gifts for our person. The time together is wonderful and so nice just to disconnect from the world and be a family and catch up.
jeannine s says
We do gag gifts to each other and draw names for main gift
Michele Patnaude says
A few years ago we began making alot of our Christmas presents. When we welcomed our children into our family we quickly learned that grandparents, aunts and friends would rather have something made by the children or with help from the children. Over the years we have made necklaces, bookmarks, fleece pillows and many other projects. This has been a great way to teach my children that a small meaningful gift is better than another sweater or tie from a chain store.
ProudLatinaTx says
We have a gift exchange 1 present per person its comes from SANTA we put all our familys names in a hat and the person we choose we get a nice gift. We enjoy the holiday more eating food that is LOVE!! Enjoy each others time life is so short have to enjoy it to the fullest 🙂
Laura F says
We draw secret Santa names for making handmade gifts
Dawn Lopez says
I love making handmade gifts for the holiday, but this year time is a little crunched. That’s why I’ve become one of Dancing Deer Baking Company’s biggest fans. Their goodies are scratch baked and I feel like I’m giving handmade treats to my loved ones. Yum!
Sarah B says
We do a fun $10 Yankee swap, or pirate swap or whatever. It’s fun and we always battle for certain gifts.
Candice says
I made my special peanut brittle and chocolate espresso cookies as part of my gift line up each year. The family looks forward to it.
Sandy Headtke says
We don’t exchange gifts, but we all put out our stockings and everyone gives stocking stuffers. Much more fun than gifts when no one needs anything.
Deb Jackson says
We value the homemade or made with love items.
Ally says
We make pizzelles every year 🙂
Cheryl says
We don’t have any unique holiday gift-giving traditions, unless not giving gifts counts. We would love to try Dancing Deer baked goods.
Tarah says
My Mother-In-Law gives our boys their Christmas PJ’s after Thanksgiving dinner every year.
Livivua says
We play dirty santa
Wehaf says
I don’t think it is unique, really, but we do a gift exchange instead of everyone buying gifts for everyone else. It keeps costs down and makes things so much easier!