Vegan Cookie Exchange/Vegan Holiday Wins (Casual Conversation Post)

Someone in my town is hosting a vegan cookie exchange tonight, and I'm excited. I'm not even a big sweets guy (although those Cocomels turning up in the grocery checkout have been doing a number on me lately), I just don't know many other vegans locally and decided to take a chance on meeting new people and expanding my social sphere in that way. I think this might be the first time I've made cookies in a decade. I made oatmeal cookies with dark chocolate, cranberries, and sea salt.

Also, one of my friends from high school did a stocking exchange where you mail someone a stocking, and the person I got wasn't vegan, but she was a vegetarian with a dairy allergy, and it was a lot of fun to be able to share a lot of my favorite products that I've found over the years.

Anyway, the TL;DR is that I constantly see posts about how hard the holidays are. What to make for non-vegan family, what to do if the family dinner or workplace party refuses to respect us, etc., and I wanted to know what your vegan wins are this holiday season. What, specific to veganism, is feeling awesome this year--a new recipe, a new tradition, etc.

(And if you don't celebrate Christmas, I'm still happy to hear about a general end-of-year good vibes vegan moment.)