Coffee Cakes

It's that time of year again....you know, to make COFFEE CAKES!

To many this probably means nothing, to us it means a whole lot of baking for a whole lot of coffee cakes. We have this old family recipe which was my mom's mom's recipe (in other words my Grandma's recipe). Evidently she did everything by 'feel'. But as the story goes my mom was some how able to get the measurements for the recipe written down. Growing up we only did coffee cakes once in a great while and from what I can remember we typically only made around 40 at a time.

But for the last 6-7 years we've been getting together and making an annual go of it. I think we ended up this year with around 150 cakes! Not bad for one day...

...its been a while

I always hate the posts which say its been a while. But it has.

So here is the update.

Christmas happened.
- We did Christmas Eve with Brian's family and his mom's parents. We had a great day and even enjoyed a moon pie or two, courtesy of Jacques.


- Christmas day we woke up early - packed the car - stopped over at Grandma Ohs' house to wish her a very Merry Christmas and then we daringly made the trek up to Elwood's house. Only once did we almost crash - thankfully we arrived without a scratch. We then had a great Christmas meal with Elwood and Ben.

- Next day I spent some time convincing siblings the roads were not 'that bad'. So thankfully everyone decided to come and thankfully everyone made it without a scratch. We spent most of Friday going through ALL of mom's Christmas decorations - that woman really LOVED Christmas. We had the entire basement covered in Christmas. Everyone went home with many pieces of the decorations mom loved so much. After that we enjoyed presents, food and the joys that come with family.

Our we celebrated the coming of the new year quietly and restfully - followed by the harsh return to work. We're still adjusting to working full weeks again - we can't wait for a 4 day week!