STELLA'S ADDICTION

For those of you who don't know what Stella's addiction is I will share. My Aunt Stella (who is also my godmother) LOVED candy. My mom always use to tell her that she needed to be careful with how much candy she ate. She would reply... "I'm sorry Julie, but it's just my addiction!" So my mom went out and bought her a cookie/candy jar that read "Stella's Addiction".

So, when my Aunt Stella passed, her daughter Maria took the jar home. My cousins in NY do an annual xmas cookie exchange in December. It was Joanne's idea to pass the jar around to a different person each year. So naturally, Joanne received the jar the first year. Then she passed it along the year after that to someone else, and so on and so forth.

Well this year it was Denise's turn to pass it on. My mom does not participate in the cookie exchange because we are not in town for the party, but Denise wanted to pass it to my mom anyway. So one day she got home from work and the jar was sitting on her kitchen table. My mom was so excited, and felt so honored.

So therefore my mom gets to enjoy Stella's Addiction for the year of 2008, and next year will pass it along once more. I love this tradition, I think it's so wonderful, but I does bring me to miss my Aunt Stella just a little.