Congratulations to our Gracious Giveaway Winner…
Susette
of Orem, Utah
Susette it the winner of our 3 covered clipboards and pebble magnet set.
Way to go Susette!
Symphony Bar Hot Chocolate
If it’s snowing where you’re at, like it’s snowing where I’m at, you’ll appreciate this…
I’m pretty sure that all this time you thought you knew what a mug of hot chocolate was supposed to taste like. But I’ll tell you something–if you’ve been pouring a small packet of dry powder into a cup and adding really hot water, perhaps…you don’t.
In fact, from this day forth, you are liable to look on such a practice as complete hot chocolate blasphemy.
In the book The Polar Express, they described what the children drank on the train, as, “…hot cocoa as thick and rich as melted chocolate bars.”
Now we’re talking…
Candy Bar Hot Chocolate
Instructions
6 ounces Symphony chocolate, chopped
2 cups milk
Place the milk and chopped chocolate in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir gently to keep chocolate from staying at the bottom of the pan and getting too hot. If you like foam, stir with a whisk just until mixture gets steamy hot. Do not let it boil. Remove from heat. Add a dollop of whip cream to the bottom of a mug. Pour in hot chocolate.
Now, go sit down and put your feet up. You’re really going to love this.
Candy Bar Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- 6 ounces Symphony chocolate, chopped
- 2 cups milk
Instructions
- Place the milk and chopped chocolate in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Stir gently to keep chocolate from staying at the bottom of the pan and getting too hot.
- If you like foam, stir with a whisk just until mixture gets steamy hot.
- Do not let it boil.
- Remove from heat.
- Add a dollop of whip cream to the bottom of a mug.
- Pour in hot chocolate.
100 Things To Be Happy About
These particular children
These perfect grandbabies
Missionary boy phone calls on Christmas day
Fleece slippers 
A bag of Cheetoes–baked not fried
Painted toenails
The smell of real Christmas trees
A well stocked bird feeder
Picking raspberries
Real Hot Chocolate with real whipped cream
Wearing pigtails
Striped socks
Bright pink mittens
A reading lamp
Men with Scottish accents
Baby kittens
Stone cottages
Cherries from a roadside stand
A backyard full of autumn leaves
Thundery rainstorms
Cheerios
Snowed in with everyone home
Gas prices right this second
The power of prayer
Thatched roofs
“Baby First Step”
Indian corn
Music boxes where you can see the insides
Porch swings
A sister
Baby kisses
Pecan logs without cherries
Pumpernickel bread with Swiss cheese
The picture book, “The Relatives Came.”
Old photos of total strangers
Caramel apples
Metal crochet hooks with taped handles
Christmas lights in very tall trees
Canopy beds with curtains
PeeWee baby dolls
Football games
Very old houses with very old trees
Jack in the Box tacos
Border’s gift cards
Surfer hair
Crocheted dust ruffles
Old buttons
“Little Lost Baby”
Beloved crazy people with New Year’s fireworks
Being read to
Flute music
Beany my love
Vlasic Kosher Dill Spears
Farm houses
A Brother
Embroidery scissors
Rainbow Brite
The “Out of Africa” soundtrack
Summerfest
Cable tights
Light purple
Cinnamon pinecones
Mourning doves
Creamers
Rootbeer floats in grama’s backyard
Christmas cards with photos inside
Letters with foreign stamps
Wind chimes
Gift baskets with really cool stuff
Jane Austen movies
Wool Felt
My dad in a kilt
Pink malt balls
Babies born gently
Snapset pools
Maxfield Parrish paintings
Baby fingers and toes
Cute boys with big feet
Freeze dried ice cream
Church steeples
Old friends that come back
Icicles
Waterfalls
Free range giraffes
Button up sweaters
“Goose Girl”
Christmas Eve
Stuffing
Kisses on the hand
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Pastry Blenders
Little girls in dresses and tights
Pink and purple petunias
Ballet Slippers
My sweet Mom
My cute daddy
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
To welcome in 2009
Happy New Year Everyone!
100th Post…
“It’s a Wonderful Life”
This week marked the posting of the 100th…ahhh…post. Now that is either really cool, and means that I am very ambitious and dedicated, or it means that my family is right…I just talk a lot. I fear the latter will always be the case. sigh…
So in celebration of whichever thing is the case—I have decided that in keeping with the theme of this blog, “…making the most of what you’ve got,” I’d like to come up with a huge list called, “100 Things To Be Happy About.”
I’ll post what I’ve got on New Year’s Day and then, by way of your comments we will just build the list. Everyone has things that make them happy–and I’d love to hear what that is for you. With your help, I think we could easily get to 10 times 100 and that will only help us be happier, and more grateful…which will make us happier…and…oh, you get what I’m saying.
It will be great!
