Last night, we had a very nice Christmas "pot luck" supper and "white elephant gift exchange" at the church "small group" that I attend in Davis. I made a green bean dish that Janet had made for our Thanksgiving dinner, which was very nice, and turned out to be very popular — I had to email the recipe to everyone this morning!
The white elephant gift exchange got a little tricky for me as one normally takes something from around the house that you don't want any longer that would be suitable as a gift. Having arrived only a few months ago with one suitcase of belongings, that didn't really work for me! I had found a nice, cheap wooden bowl in a charity shop in Rocklin a couple of weeks ago and put some Lindor chocolate truffle balls in it, which turned out to be very popular. The "rules" of the exchange are that, when it's your turn, you can take a wrapped present from the pile, or else you can "steal" a gift from someone who has already got one, forcing them to take a new gift from the pile. One complication is that a gift can only be stolen twice and then it belongs to whoever holds it. Rather to my surprise, my makeshift gift turned out to be highly sought after and was the only one that got "stolen" twice (and it wasn't just the Lindor chocolates — the person who ended up with really liked the bowl!).
I took a gift from the pile rather than "stealing" one, and got a CD audio book of one of Max Lucado's recent books (3:16, which I haven't read yet). I was rather pleased with that, and had to work at putting off someone who was eying it out for a possible steal!
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