Growing up there were a few things I could always count on my mom to make during the holidays. One of these things is her Homemade Cinnamon Candy. Aside from working with boiling hot molten sugar lava, the recipe is pretty easy to make. I had my mom make it with me (for me) for this post. Side note, she also fed me and my son lunch while she made the candy. I think I may make my mom a full-time blog partner. It works out really well for me.
You just need some light corn syrup, straight up wonderful white sugar, water and cinnamon oil. You can find the cinnamon oil at your local craft store. Oh yeah, my mom also bought all the ingredients. The cinnamon oil came in a pack of two, each bottle being 1 dram. We only used one bottle, but if you like you cinnamon light-your-tongue-on-fire hot, you may want to use some of the other bottle as well.
You mix the sugar and corn syrup in a sauce pan.
Then you add a candy thermometer and wait for the sugar to get up to 300 degrees. I think this may also be known as hard ball stage, can anyone confirm?
It will take a while for the sugar to get to the right temperate. I think it took us about an hour. And can we talk for a moment about how freaking clean my mom’s stove top is? Gosh I wish I got her cleaning gene. [Read more...]
Well, here it is. Our family Christmas card for 2012. Some of you may know the story behind our cards. If you don’t you will probably want to read it 
I’ll be starting back up posting next week but here is what we have been up to in the meantime…First off, I ugly cried today. I went to download all the pictures from my camera on to the computer and they vanished in to thin air!! They aren’t on the home computer, they aren’t on my phone. Boo. I spent hours trying to recover them but I just have to be ok that I lost a lot of Christmas, 4th birthday and birthday party pictures as well as some from the Kismet PR class I hosted right before Christmas. :( But I’ve chosen to not dwell on it and we’re just going to proceed like nothing is missing. I still had the pictures from my Nikon so luckily I do have photos of most of those events on there. But only a few.
The boys got to open a ton of gifts from their cousins and grandparents and then we headed home so they could get nestled in their beds so Santa could come.
We had an awesome Christmas morning breakfast with my parents. Yes, those are cookies and rice krispy treats in the mix. Every good breakfast buffet has sweets. Not pictured is a gruyere and ham strata! Yum!
We hung out at the house for several days playing with all of the new Christmas toys. The kids don’t want to stop playing with some of them and wear them around the house for hours.
My youngest celebrated his 4th birthday with a party at 
And then it was his actual birthday and we had a day full of opening presents and trying to move presents around the house to allow for family to come over later that day for cakes and ice cream. I’m exhausted. I’m so glad that we have 5 days left before the kids go back to school!
How rad are these 
