Wishing you a Happy New Year!! Looking forward to good things in 2010.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Christmas Candy Traditions
Making Christmas Candy has been a tradition in our family for many years. My grandmother was a wonderful cook and loved to bake so Christmas was a very special time for making candy and special foods like her Holiday Fruit Cake, which I don't have the recipe.She spent weeks gathering the ingredients for this cake and when it was made it was placed in Cheese Cloth and hidden! Yes, she made several and hid them till Christmas! LOL!
One of the things I remember very well was making chocolate peanut butter balls with my grandma, mom, aunt, and anyone else who wanted to join in. We have continued the tradition each year with my own girls and they look forward to making candy and spending time in the kitchen, especially those famous peanut butter balls.
Let me encourage you to take time to make something special with your children during the busy holidays. The memories we have are precious and dear to our hearts, these times are so special to all of us.
My mother-n-law has her own traditions with my girls. When they were younger they made sugar cookies every year and decorated them, cookie cutter ornaments for the tree, decorating the tree, and now for the past few years they have made a candy called White Trash. We call it Mamaw's White Trash Candy. I would like to share the recipe with you. It taste's much better than it sounds!!
White Trash Candy
1 stick margarine
1- 12 oz. pkg. milk chocolate semi-sweets
2 cups peanut butter
Melt together and add:
13 oz. pkg. Golden Graham cereal
1 box raisins (we use less)
3 cups mixed nuts
Take 2 brown grocery bags (or a LARGE container with tight fitting lid) and put 1 box powdered sugar into the bags. Then put mixture into bags. Fold twice at top and shake until the mixture is well covered. Put in bowl and refrigerate.
DELICIOUS!!!!
*This makes a large batch, you may want to half it.
One of the things I remember very well was making chocolate peanut butter balls with my grandma, mom, aunt, and anyone else who wanted to join in. We have continued the tradition each year with my own girls and they look forward to making candy and spending time in the kitchen, especially those famous peanut butter balls.
Let me encourage you to take time to make something special with your children during the busy holidays. The memories we have are precious and dear to our hearts, these times are so special to all of us.
My mother-n-law has her own traditions with my girls. When they were younger they made sugar cookies every year and decorated them, cookie cutter ornaments for the tree, decorating the tree, and now for the past few years they have made a candy called White Trash. We call it Mamaw's White Trash Candy. I would like to share the recipe with you. It taste's much better than it sounds!!
White Trash Candy
1 stick margarine
1- 12 oz. pkg. milk chocolate semi-sweets
2 cups peanut butter
Melt together and add:
13 oz. pkg. Golden Graham cereal
1 box raisins (we use less)
3 cups mixed nuts
Take 2 brown grocery bags (or a LARGE container with tight fitting lid) and put 1 box powdered sugar into the bags. Then put mixture into bags. Fold twice at top and shake until the mixture is well covered. Put in bowl and refrigerate.
DELICIOUS!!!!
*This makes a large batch, you may want to half it.
Monday, December 14, 2009
The weekend was full of activities as usual during the Christmas season. We spent time with family decorating the tree, ice skating with our youth group at church and shopping all day Saturday. My husband is an early morning person and would much rather go early to avoid the crowd so we left the house at 6:30 a.m. and shopped till we dropped!! I'm very happy to say we are almost finished shopping and now I can concentrate on making candy and a few homemade items I've planned to make.
Sunday was celebrated with our church choir singing our Christmas Cantata. We love to get dressed up in our red and sing the beautiful Christmas carols and songs that Celebrate the birth of our Savior!!My favorite was a solo, "Mary did you Know?".
Next Sunday the little children will present the Christmas Play, we are looking forward to that too!
Much to do today......school, sewing, quilting, and laundry, just a few on my long Monday list!! Have a good day!
Friday, December 11, 2009
Twiddletails Giveaway
Christmas is right around the corner friends!!! We have been busy shopping, making candy, ice skating and sending out Christmas cards, all those wonderful and special memories being made.
My husband and I are so very blessed to still have our two girls at home with us and also to have our parents well and able to celebrate this joyful Christmas! Praise God for his loving kindness and protection!!
As I was checking in with some of my favorite blogs I did find a wonderful giveaway over at The Twiddletails Blog!! Take a look at this gorgeous fabric line, I'm looking forward to picking out a little something for myself!!
My husband and I are so very blessed to still have our two girls at home with us and also to have our parents well and able to celebrate this joyful Christmas! Praise God for his loving kindness and protection!!
As I was checking in with some of my favorite blogs I did find a wonderful giveaway over at The Twiddletails Blog!! Take a look at this gorgeous fabric line, I'm looking forward to picking out a little something for myself!!
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