So for the last day or so I have been attempting to make holiday goodies with chocolate and have had mixed results. Recipes that I've never had issues with before went seriously wrong and (sin of sins) I have ruined a decent amount of chocolate. For example - I made three batches of fudge with differing results (none of which were the outcome I was looking for). One batch is a smooth truffle like candy - yummy, but not really fudge like. Another batch is very soft with toffee like consistency. Then the final batch is brick hard. Then I was melting chocolate to dip things in (like nilla wafers and pretzels) and one batch burnt. It makes no sense given that I did everything exactly the same for every batch! Anyway, so we had this mass of burnt chocolate with peppermint undertones and I was getting quite upset about how I kept ruining the chocolate. So we started playing with the chocolate and since it looked pretty much like a giant turd, Mike took it outside and dumped it in the snow (see picture below). So there is a very large turd-like piece of burnt peppermint chocolate in our yard which was really silly at the moment but yeah.... anyway the point is I need to stop making crap and actually get some edible stuff made sometime soon!

Labels: Holidays, Personal, recipes

I show off the good cookies

Mike got a bit messy

the chocolate turd...

The final Christmas picture ...

So its finally December and therefore one can celebrate Christmas without the "shouldn't we at least wait until Thanksgiving is over" guilt trip. So far its snowed each day this month but I think there is still only about an inch of snow on the ground (even so I still got made fun of by complete strangers for wearing my birks out in the cold and the snow...). But it makes things pretty.
This past week has been crazy. Emma decided not to take naps - which made her less than happy most of the time. I think we also scared her for life with the whole taking a christmas picture thing. First - I took her to the mall to get her picture taken at The Picture People. Well they tried to have her stand up next to a chair and she managed to fall down pulling the chair down on top of her. She was okay, just really frightened and needless to say we didn't get the pictures taken that day. Then we tried to do the whole family picture thing in front of the chistmas tree and the whole tree fell down on top of me and her. We are both okay - but the tree has issues and is currently being held together by superglue and duct tape... its okay as long as you don't touch it or breath anywhere near it.
So that has been December so far. we have half of our christmas lights up and those look great (just a bit lopsided until the rest go up...). anyway... thats my life.

Labels: Holidays, Personal