Baking

I love holiday baking.  Once all the programs & school/work functions were taken care of, I finally got a few days to sit down & bake all the yummy goodies we love to eat at Christmas.

I ended up making 150 pieces of peppermint fudge,

150 pieces of peanut butter fudge,

150 Christmas Lights & Nutcracker chocolates,

75 Caramel Marshmallow Treats,

75 Peanut Butter Balls,

75 Gingerbread Cookies,

175 Frosted Sugar Cookies,

3 Batches of Christmas Crack,

2 Batches of Muddy Buddies,

300 Homemade Caramels,

 & 75 Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

Of course we can't eat all of that, so we made 40 plates of goodies for neighbors, friends, Trek's co-workers, & several people from church. 

We took 3 whole days at an average of 4 hours a day to deliver the plates & carol at people's houses.  It's never taken us that long to deliver goodies.  I forget how spread out the villages here in Europe are.  It literally takes 15-30 minutes to get from each house to the next house & when you're delivering 40 plates, that adds up fast.  We spent over an hour just planning & mapping out the order in which we'd deliver them so we'd make the best use of our time.

Regardless of time, we had a BLAST as a family.  My girls especially love to carol at people's houses.  I just love the family together time.  

Merry Christmas everyone.