Holiday cheer
Yesterday Ian and I made the venture to go find ourselves a nice Hanukkah bush (Ian’s dad is Catholic and I celebrate Christmas as a family holiday with my siblings). Last year we had purchased a potted mini tree from Target and it lived 11 solid months until it died this November. We wanted to get something similar in the hopes that a new tree could live 12 whole months and make it through two Christmases. (I am pretty sure there is a rule that no potted Christmas trees can ever live a full 12 months. Ever. This rule is most likely enforced by Christmas elves and evil retailers.) Sadly, Target had no mini trees. I was devastated.
Distraught, I took Ian to a really cute garden center where I had purchased our pumpkins for Halloween. There were no mini trees, but there, among the ten foot firs we found ourselves a perky six-footer. And my super-de-duper husband bought it for me. Yay! We managed to get it home in one piece and set it up in the corner of our living room. Surprisingly, our mini collection of ornaments filled the tree out so not only does it smell good, it looks pretty too.
This was an inspiring Christmas development, so I got motivated and made a big pot of minestrone soup and about four dozen sugar cookies. The cookies were a good idea and fun to make, but you know you’ve eaten too many when they don’t taste good anymore. The cookies needed to leave my house ASAP, so my coworkers, at least, stood to profit.
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We are totally snow in up here so I did something similar this weekend: make 2.5lbs of caramel. And then chocolate dipped about half of it. It’s a lot of caramel.
I have to bring a bunch of it to work tomorrow to give away, or I will actually put myself into a sugar coma.
But all the same – yay for Hanukkah bushes and making too much sugary food!