With this in (chocolatey) hand, we made candy today! We're beginning our second week of Spring Break this week and I thought some candy-making would be a good activity.
We made the chocolate mint meltaways and they are delicious. They were fun, easy and totally kid-friendly to make (well, if you hold a loose definition of kid-friendly, as I do) and then end result is cute and fun and good. They would make great gifts (teachers, I'm looking at you!) and I am totally ready to make more recipes from this adorable cookbook (which, itself, would make a great gift--maybe the book & some candy together?).
In addition to making candy, we read a bunch of stories from From Sea to Shining Sea (not to be confused with this book, of similar name - yikes!). I love this book as it has stories from all different parts of American history, and from all the different cultures that make up America. After the stories and the candy-making, we went to drop off some food for the Oregon Food Bank and listened to my new Neil Diamond CD on the way. When the song America came on, Ezra asked what it was about and I got to have a brief (I force myself to keep them brief!) teaching moment about religious freedom, immigration to America and our good fortune at being born here. In addition to feeling thankful for being born in a free country, I felt really thankful today to be able to be at home with my beautiful boys.
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