It’s Christmas day. Are you still short a Christmas gift? Perhaps one for an expectant couple or a daughter, sister or neice? The gift of life through a stem cell collection kit from C’Elle could be the most important gift you ever give!

I know a stem cell debate probably isn’t on your Christmas list, but just consider how valuable stem cells, collected from menstrual blood, can be to a women, couple, family, and baby. The female body produces thousands of self-renewing stem cells every month during menstruation, and C’Elle’s patented technology allows those stem cells to be collected with an easy-to-use kit and cryo-preserved for potential cellular therapies.

The harvesting of the stem cells is affordable, painless and non-invasive, and because the stem cells in menstrual blood mimic both adult and embryonic stem cells, they can quickly multiple and have the potential to differentiate into heart, nerve, bone, cartilage, fat, and other cells. The cells may not be used this year, or even ten years from now, but as medical research continues to discover how stem cells can be used, the cells become more and more valuable as a treatment option.

The gift of C’Elle is a highly personal one, and one that may bring many years of happiness to your family!

Merry Christmas! Enjoy some of my favorite holiday songs.

I’m very particular about which version of each song I like and by which artist, so note that it is Tori Amos, and not Jessica Simpson, singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

If we aren’t Twitter friends, we better act fast, because I’m ordering my Twitter mug this week and need as many smiling faces as possible!

I’m @CorrinRenee, so follow me or leave comment with your Twitter name and I’ll track you down.

Thanks to Owen for making me completely obsessed with getting a Twitter mug of my own.

It’s Four Foods on Friday: Ice Storm 2008 Edition! I’m working from home today, so I’m answering this week’s Four Foods on Friday questions early so I’m not distracted all day. Although I do have to go around visiting everyone’s posts!

1. What’s your favorite crunchy food?

I’ve been snacking on La Choy rice noodles lately. They are very crunchy and quite tasty.

2. How often do you try new recipes?

Not as often as I should considering I work with a chef every day.

3. Name a food that you almost always have in the house.

Edamame! The Archer Farms steam bags of edamame from SuperTarget are my favorite. I just bought four bags yesterday.

4. What kind of food do you leave out for Santa on Christmas Eve?

Cookies and milk. Sometimes carrots for the reindeer.

Mike and I set out this evening for the most spectacular Christmas light displays in our neighborhood, and saw the same two houses we always see decorated.

This house in the old historical district really upped it’s game this year by adding Santa and his reindeer to the roof and blindingly blue lights to all the evergreen trees.

The angel house is a family favorite and I’ve been going to see it every year since I was a kid and every year we can’t figure out what street it is on, but we only took one wrong turn this year.

We took Ollie with us, and you can hear Mike and I start to argue the last few seconds of the video over who had a hold of him since the window was open.

Are there any over-the-top light displays in your neighborhood? Are you the Griswald family? I hope to be when we finally get a house. I want to be the brightest house on the block from November through January!