It's 4:55 p.m. on December 24!!

It is 4:55 p.m. on December 24 and we are about to close the doors on the Christmas/Holiday season.
This year was both different and the same.
We began on Thanksgiving with the joint celebration of Thanksgivukkah...the coincidence of the first day of Chanukah occurring on Thanksgiving Day. We celebrated (and so did some of our customers) with delicious cookies from Cookiedoodle.  Two designs:  a Turkey Menorah and a Dreidle with a Turkey and the greeting:  Gobble Tov ("Tov" means good).
Because Thanksgiving occurred on the last Thursday of November (or correctly on the 4th Thursday of November) we had a great rush of 3-1/2 weeks until Christmas.  Time went by so quickly that we are just now catching our breath.
As usual, we saw many of our customers who visit us once a year, at Christmas time.  When they volunteer that information, I signal that I have been struck in the heart by that news and tell them to try harder next year to visit us at least 2 times in 2014!
Significantly as far as I know, we didn't have any customers who told us that they were shopping at Sweet Tooth because what they ordered online didn't come in, or came in and wasn't what they wanted.  I am taking this as a sign that more Tulsans are seriously shopping locally!!
We have a jovial time at the store...laughing and joking about the fun or unusual things that happen.  We rarely have grumpy customers and if we do, we work really hard to cheer that person up.
No bounced checks so far!!  If it is going to happen, it would happen now.  Let's cross our fingers on that one.
At Christmas people really love to combine a candy gift with whatever else they have purchased.  We see lots of fun stocking stuffer ideas and we are occasionally asked to help create something special.  We love doing that!
A few local celebrities have shopped at Sweet Tooth.  I won't divulge their names but we did have a couple of Tulsa mayors (hey Dewey, we didn't see you!) and some very talented musical folks. 
We are taking 2 days off.  Our After Christmas Sale begins on Friday December 27th and in January we will be off to the Gift Market.  More on that later.  In the meantime, Happy New Year from all of us to all of you.