Christmas In June

I so love the fact that I have good friends around me.

Most of all, I super love the fact that I have good friends around me who cook and bake.

My intercom rang and roused me at around 7a.m. shortly before a building guard rang the doorbell handed me two red paper bags. I peered inside and saw a package of Chocolate-Chip Cookies, groggily ate one as I padded back to bed.

At 9a.m. I was already wide awake and went back to the kitchen because I thought I dreamt I ate a cookie.

Luckily, I wasn't dreaming because I saw two red bags on my kitchen counter. I touched it for extra measure.

Yes, the loot was real, indeed.


It's great to hear people pursuing their creative endeavors. Shortly after her uber-early morning wedding months back, my friend Regina Rodriguez-Cruz finally put up Belly Treats --- her own line of delightful pastries for those who want to give their summer's toned abs a break, even for just one bite, making that bite worth every calorie gained.

It was on that same day that I reluctantly left the pastries on the counter and rushed out to watch Kung Fu Panda with my mom, the boyfriend's mom and his adorable little sister with the missing front teeth. I poked her from the car seat behind her as I jumped into the van and whispered, "Guess what, I have something for you!"


Her eyes widened when she got a small container of chocolate pastries but remained typically behaved throughout the ride to the cinema. A few minutes later I heard her ask, "Mommy, can I have a cookie?". When her mom gave the go-signal, she did a dance in her seat and waved her arms in the air as the mom wrapped one cookie and one brownie in a tissue so she could snack on it during the movie. As soon as we sat in our theater, I looked from the corner of my eye and saw a profile of a grinning girl carefully munching on her cookie in the dark as a panda did his kung fu tricks on screen.

When I got home, I excitedly grabbed the box. There were two --- one contained a very moist Lemon Cake, and one which contained... a droolicious Carrot Cake.


How absolutely dreamy... just look at that icing. What a thing of beauty!


Instantly, I was whisked to a good time. I felt as if it were Christmas time.

And it is Christmas in June as I write while eating a slice of Carrot Cake, and await one of my life's greatest blessings to walk through my door in a few hours time...