Did you make the list?

NOTE: IF YOU ARE 100 MILES AWAY OR MORE THIS DOES NOT PERTAIN TO YOU. UNLESS I CAN SHIP C.O.D. :)

So Every year I make chocolate and candies. Each year I have 15 boxes that I have to give out. Its a joke in our family that "they... didn't make the list"....I know that its not nice, but whatever. I spend hours making these candies...I am giving them to friends and family.

My candies include:

5 different kinds of fudge: Mint, rocky road, candy bar, cookies and creme, double dark chocolate

Chocolate covered almond Toffee

Peppermint bark

Truffles Mint and dark chocolate

Take 5 bars

peanut butter cups

chocolate covered raisins and peanuts

turtles......of and which has taken me 5 years to master. I know that it sounds like a long time, but each year I would try a different recipe. A few years of people wanting me to pay for there dental work, and a few years that I just smashed the Carmel's on the top of the pecans.....THIS YEAR I DID IT. Last year someone gave us some turtle's....A PERSON I LOTHE. They were perfect, and my husband did nothing less than to tell me that I should get her recipe.(Being 9 months Pregnant, you don't forget something like that) Well this year I was hell bent on making the softest yummiest caramels, I have ever made AND I would NOT ASK FOR HER RECIPE......men seriously......

Every year as I start my traditional Candie making, I start to wonder why? and every year it has started to get worse. In fact, half way through the process I start to curse myself and wonder why do I do this? I couldn't figure out why it has gotten so bad? I figured it out this year. Each year I have 2 more hands that are sticking there fingers in things and 1 more mouth that is either screaming and crying or is complaining that "they really want to help". So I figure that I have 10 hands and 5 mouths that wont leave me alone during the critical toffee making period. Not fun anymore.

Well anyways I feel SORTA bad about the fact that last year we gave out candies to pretty much whoever we knew. (The fact that we had just moved here and only really knew 15 families did affect who we gave them too) This year all but a few families have been X-ed off of our list. So sorry this year if you do not receive a box of chocolates. Maybe next year you should be nicer to us. NO... NO... REALLY I AM JUST KIDDING :)

We have so many people that we love and cherish this holiday season, 15 boxes of chocolates just does not cover it.