Dec 17 We Made Chocolate Truffles Meadow requested we light the Swedish candles during breakfast. We had chocolate big pancake with chocolate syrup. It was basically cake. It was delicious. I have a Tea Cakes and Candies pan that I bought many years ago that I have yet to use. I decided this year I was finally going to try making chocolates.  I had planned to do this at the cottage, but they don't have a candy thermometer. I needed one to temper the chocolate first. Since this is a metal pan and not flexable like candy molds I was nervous that it wouldn't work. I did a half batch as test. Not exactly perfect, but it worked! Meadow was excited that they were little Bundt pans. Dec 18 - We make a Christmas Gift Scott saw a snowfort kit at REI recently. We both thought it would be a great New Year's Christmas gift. While trying to find it online we found a  tutorial  on how to make your own snow blocks. We used a diffe...

Meadow was excited for our weekly adventure, but once she jumped in our bed she didn't want to get out.

We got back from Christmas vacation Friday night, we both worked Saturday and so Sunday morning we were off again.  After having to drive back home, twice forgetting something, we were finally ready to head up to Duluth to pick up Blake.  We figured since we would be going to Duluth at the end of the week we'd take a little detour on the way to Wisconsin and pick him up. Ah, Duluth. I'm starting to love this city. Blake had us meet him at work and so we got to take another tour. The house was still decorated for Christmas. It was kind of neat to see it during the winter time. Blake even did some decorating. It was nice to see, but we had places to be. Blake made us stop at the library first. We were hungry for lunch by then, so Blake suggested one of his favorite places in town Duluth Grill . There were so many good food options it was hard to pick. A lot of their produce is local too which is pretty cool. I think we may have to stop he...