2016 Christmukkah Holiday Gift Highlights

The winter holidays of 2016 have coincided in a wonderful synergy of holiday spirit, and thus we have the gift of celebrating Christmukkah this weekend. Christmas Eve consisted of lighting the menorrah for the first night and following our tradition of honoring some person, group, or idea for each night. This year we began by honoring the good "people of non-profits," who do so much heroic and often un-sung work of altruism. The world can certainly use some Goodwill about now, and we wanted to remind ourselves of that.

This year in the Mazenko home, we had a nice simple round of gift-giving. Here are some of the highlights:

• A donation to Freedom Service Dogs  

• A donation to the national MATHCOUNTS organization 

• How not to Be Wrong: Power of Mathematical Thinking - Jordan Ellenberg

• The soundtrack to the hit Broadway musical Hamilton 

• An excellent wine bottle opener 

• Sandra Boynton's wonderfully useful Mom's Family Wall Calendar