Food

Nathan gets 3 weeks of holidays each year and he likes to take each week of holidays 4 months apart so he doesn't get too worn out. January is always our least active holiday because it's so cold that we don't end up doing much. We talked about going on a short trip but if we were going to travel, we wanted to go somewhere warm- which is expensive and a hassle with a young child. We decided to stay at home and binge on great food and takeout as our holiday treat.

On Tuesday night we visited the Henke family (as we do every vacation) and had a dessert night. The Henke's have 5 kids, yet Allison made more messes in their house than all of the others put together. It was a little embarrassing.

I made a triple chocolate bundt cake for dessert. It was really good, but the recipe called for a pudding mix to be added (for extra moisture) and it was really tasty but it was so moist and soft that it almost didn't taste baked through - it was! It was still really good and I would make it again (minus the pudding mix).

We've had BBQ and takeout (on more than one occasion) but we always have breakfast at home.
My new favorite recipe is to make quiche (eggs, milk, ham, and cheese) in tortilla shells. So delicious and easy! I made them twice since Nathan loved them too.

We've also been using the waffle iron on multiple occasions. We're on our last bottle of Palmer's Maple Syrup but that didn't slow us down!