Girl Day

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girl day

Traditions are so awesome and one of my very favorites is our “girl day”! There are so many things going on when we normally get together that we don’t often just get to sit and relax and really visit. Every year between Christmas and New Year’s Eve we go away for an overnight. We shop, eat, drink coffee, have long uninterrupted conversation, it’s awesome! This year we had the added privilege of all feeling my new grandson kick around in his mommy’s tummy! That was the icing on the cake! Yay for traditions! I am so grateful for my girls!

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Girl Day

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girl day

Traditions are so awesome and one of my very favorites is our “girl day”! There are so many things going on when we normally get together that we don’t often just get to sit and relax and really visit. Every year between Christmas and New Year’s Eve we go away for an overnight. We shop, eat, drink coffee, have long uninterrupted conversation, it’s awesome! This year we had the added privilege of all feeling my new grandson kick around in his mommy’s tummy! That was the icing on the cake! Yay for traditions! I am so grateful for my girls!

Girl Day

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girl day

Traditions are so awesome and one of my very favorites is our “girl day”! There are so many things going on when we normally get together that we don’t often just get to sit and relax and really visit. Every year between Christmas and New Year’s Eve we go away for an overnight. We shop, eat, drink coffee, have long uninterrupted conversation, it’s awesome! This year we had the added privilege of all feeling my new grandson kick around in his mommy’s tummy! That was the icing on the cake! Yay for traditions! I am so grateful for my girls!

English Toffee

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Butter, Candy, Christmas, Corn syrup, English Toffee, Food, Home, Pecan, Toffee

This is one of my mom’s recipes and she made it every Christmas and kept it in little Christmas tins. It is melt in your mouth delicious!! One year I thought I would just whip up a few batches for the Digger’s (I am trying that name out for Ricky) guys that he worked with. I waited until the night before he was going to give it out and guess what?!?! Batch after batch didn’t turn out!! I was determined I was going to master this and tried many, many times!! No telling how much money I spent trying. I later was visiting with my mom and aunt and I finally admitted that I couldn’t make their famous toffee. I commented that I hated to waste all that butter, which is what the recipe said, and they looked at me like I was crazy and started giggling. I was supposed to use MARGARINE!! Who knew! From then on I was one toffee making fool!

Who knew these two could be so sneaky!

Daddy will be joining us this year for our first Christmas/New Years without my mom and I hope this makes him feel loved.

English Toffee

Spread 2 cups chopped pecans on foil

Combine 1 cup sugar
2 sticks oleomargarine
1 T Karo light syrup
3 T cold water

Stir and cook to a hard crack stage-290 degrees on candy thermometer.

Pour over pecans and immediately lay on top 3 Hershey bars. Spread Hershey bars over toffee as they melt. Leave overnight and break into pieces.

English Toffee

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Butter, Candy, Christmas, Corn syrup, English Toffee, Food, Home, Pecan, Toffee

This is one of my mom’s recipes and she made it every Christmas and kept it in little Christmas tins. It is melt in your mouth delicious!! One year I thought I would just whip up a few batches for the Digger’s (I am trying that name out for Ricky) guys that he worked with. I waited until the night before he was going to give it out and guess what?!?! Batch after batch didn’t turn out!! I was determined I was going to master this and tried many, many times!! No telling how much money I spent trying. I later was visiting with my mom and aunt and I finally admitted that I couldn’t make their famous toffee. I commented that I hated to waste all that butter, which is what the recipe said, and they looked at me like I was crazy and started giggling. I was supposed to use MARGARINE!! Who knew! From then on I was one toffee making fool!

Who knew these two could be so sneaky!

Daddy will be joining us this year for our first Christmas/New Years without my mom and I hope this makes him feel loved.

English Toffee

Spread 2 cups chopped pecans on foil

Combine 1 cup sugar
2 sticks oleomargarine
1 T Karo light syrup
3 T cold water

Stir and cook to a hard crack stage-290 degrees on candy thermometer.

Pour over pecans and immediately lay on top 3 Hershey bars. Spread Hershey bars over toffee as they melt. Leave overnight and break into pieces.

English Toffee

Tags

Butter, Candy, Christmas, Corn syrup, English Toffee, Food, Home, Pecan, Toffee

This is one of my mom’s recipes and she made it every Christmas and kept it in little Christmas tins. It is melt in your mouth delicious!! One year I thought I would just whip up a few batches for the Digger’s (I am trying that name out for Ricky) guys that he worked with. I waited until the night before he was going to give it out and guess what?!?! Batch after batch didn’t turn out!! I was determined I was going to master this and tried many, many times!! No telling how much money I spent trying. I later was visiting with my mom and aunt and I finally admitted that I couldn’t make their famous toffee. I commented that I hated to waste all that butter, which is what the recipe said, and they looked at me like I was crazy and started giggling. I was supposed to use MARGARINE!! Who knew! From then on I was one toffee making fool!

Who knew these two could be so sneaky!

Daddy will be joining us this year for our first Christmas/New Years without my mom and I hope this makes him feel loved.

English Toffee

Spread 2 cups chopped pecans on foil

Combine 1 cup sugar
2 sticks oleomargarine
1 T Karo light syrup
3 T cold water

Stir and cook to a hard crack stage-290 degrees on candy thermometer.

Pour over pecans and immediately lay on top 3 Hershey bars. Spread Hershey bars over toffee as they melt. Leave overnight and break into pieces.

Fudge

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Butter, Chocolate, Chocolate chip, Christmas, Evaporated milk, Fudge, Marshmallow, Recipe

I mentioned before that we are a week behind the rest of the world in celebrating Christmas so this week I am making all of my Christmas goodies! I forgot how fun it was!! I am not a big fan of fudge but after looking at some recipes I decided that I needed to add it to my Christmas food list. The recipe that looked irrisistable was Edie’s Grannie’s recipe from Life in Grace blog. I am dying!!!!! It is absolutely delicious!! I have already given the neighbors some! I feel so grandmothery!

Grannie’s Fudge

2 sticks butter
6 cups of sugar
1 can evaporated milk
1 (7oz.) jar marshmallow cream
18 oz. chocolate chips (2 1/2 cups)
2 tsp. vanilla

Bring butter, sugar and milk to a boil and boil for six minutes.  Remove from heat and stir in marshmallow cream, chocolate chips and vanilla.  Keep stirring until the mixture doesn’t run quickly off the spoon. (It requires a lot of stirring!) It should “collapse” off the spoon.  Then spread it in a buttered jelly roll pan.  After about 30 minutes, cut into squares.

You can visit Edie at Life in Grace and see pictures of the fudge making process at:

 http://www.lifeingraceblog.com/2010/12/award-winning-fudge-aka-grannies-fudge-aka-theres-no-other-fudge-for-me.html

You’ll love her!

Fudge

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Butter, Chocolate, Chocolate chip, Christmas, Evaporated milk, Fudge, Marshmallow, Recipe

I mentioned before that we are a week behind the rest of the world in celebrating Christmas so this week I am making all of my Christmas goodies! I forgot how fun it was!! I am not a big fan of fudge but after looking at some recipes I decided that I needed to add it to my Christmas food list. The recipe that looked irrisistable was Edie’s Grannie’s recipe from Life in Grace blog. I am dying!!!!! It is absolutely delicious!! I have already given the neighbors some! I feel so grandmothery!

Grannie’s Fudge

2 sticks butter
6 cups of sugar
1 can evaporated milk
1 (7oz.) jar marshmallow cream
18 oz. chocolate chips (2 1/2 cups)
2 tsp. vanilla

Bring butter, sugar and milk to a boil and boil for six minutes.  Remove from heat and stir in marshmallow cream, chocolate chips and vanilla.  Keep stirring until the mixture doesn’t run quickly off the spoon. (It requires a lot of stirring!) It should “collapse” off the spoon.  Then spread it in a buttered jelly roll pan.  After about 30 minutes, cut into squares.

You can visit Edie at Life in Grace and see pictures of the fudge making process at:

 http://www.lifeingraceblog.com/2010/12/award-winning-fudge-aka-grannies-fudge-aka-theres-no-other-fudge-for-me.html

You’ll love her!

Fudge

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Butter, Chocolate, Chocolate chip, Christmas, Evaporated milk, Fudge, Marshmallow, Recipe

I mentioned before that we are a week behind the rest of the world in celebrating Christmas so this week I am making all of my Christmas goodies! I forgot how fun it was!! I am not a big fan of fudge but after looking at some recipes I decided that I needed to add it to my Christmas food list. The recipe that looked irrisistable was Edie’s Grannie’s recipe from Life in Grace blog. I am dying!!!!! It is absolutely delicious!! I have already given the neighbors some! I feel so grandmothery!

Grannie’s Fudge

2 sticks butter
6 cups of sugar
1 can evaporated milk
1 (7oz.) jar marshmallow cream
18 oz. chocolate chips (2 1/2 cups)
2 tsp. vanilla

Bring butter, sugar and milk to a boil and boil for six minutes.  Remove from heat and stir in marshmallow cream, chocolate chips and vanilla.  Keep stirring until the mixture doesn’t run quickly off the spoon. (It requires a lot of stirring!) It should “collapse” off the spoon.  Then spread it in a buttered jelly roll pan.  After about 30 minutes, cut into squares.

You can visit Edie at Life in Grace and see pictures of the fudge making process at:

 http://www.lifeingraceblog.com/2010/12/award-winning-fudge-aka-grannies-fudge-aka-theres-no-other-fudge-for-me.html

You’ll love her!

If I Just Had One More Week!

I am loving this Christmas Season and I hate to see it end! The good thing is…we have one more week! Since one of our daughters works in the airline industry, and couldn’t always be with us on Christmas, we started celebrating our Christmas on New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day and we LOVE it!! After all the hustle and bustle, things settle down and we have a wonderful relaxing couple of days with everybody!! Even though now she might be able to be here on Christmas, after ten years, we thinks this works and we are sticking with it! So this week I will be baking, wrapping presents, finishing up some shopping (yes, at the big sales!! another perk!) and just doing what the rest of the world did this week! So far we have …

Looked at Christmas lights…

Had a big slumber party with the grandkids!

Played in the “snow”.

Saw “Santa”.

Shared some sweet times in front of the fire…
and looking forward to lots, lots more this week!  As we celebrate this Christmas, I am so grateful for so many things! My salvation, my family, my friends, I am humbled that this life is mine.  I hope that this Christmas finds you full of gratitude, enjoying the gifts that surround you!