Fruitcake

The grandkids and I made fruitcake today. This picture is of my granddaughter, Ruth, grinding up the pecans. I had each of the three older ones do a part. The recipe is one my mother used when I was a kid. You put 2 sticks of butter in a bowl with a bag of large marshmallows and the juice from a small jar of cherries. You put this in the microwave until the butter and marshmallows are melted. That was Joshua's job. You crush up three packages of graham crackers and add to it a box of raisins, a cup of chopped pecans and the cherries. This was the job assigned to Ruth and Hannah. You mix all together and put it in a loaf pan. You refrigerate it for two hours and it is ready to eat. The Kids had fun making it and tomorrow they will taste the fruits of their labors.

We had a short service tonight at church followed by refreshments which Janie and I provided. We like to do this the Wednesday night before Christmas each year. The people seem to enjoy having a small Christmas party. When we got home Scott called to let Stacie know how things were going. It seems the airline lost his luggage and he will get it back tomorrow. We left Stacie and the kids talking to Scott on Skype (pictured) and headed out to deliver some checks to our mission treasurer and to go by the Post Office. After that we went to Wal-Mart to do a little shopping. The crowd was not bad at all. We picked up some groceries and a few things for the grandkids for Christmas.

Speaking of Skype, the kids got to talk to their cousins in France by Skype. The grandkids in France were holding up toys to the camera to show them to their cousins here in Texas. That was exciting to them all. We are going to do it again Christmas day so they can show each other what they got for Christmas.

Well its off to bed for me. God bless you.