I have not been very good with the blog these past two weeks. Despite my mental determination to do the countdown to Christmas, I was physically unable to do it. Nope, nothing wrong. Just not enough hours in the day to work, wrap presents, shop, decorate, get ready to go to PA…you get the picture. Needless to say, we are traveling to the great white north tomorrow, the 20th. I am excited. It sounds like we will have a white Christmas while we are up there, despite only reaching 29 degrees for high temps. I am looking forward to the chance to do some sledding. It seems like eons ago that we were able to get out the old orange sled and go down the hill in Cranesville. Sliding down the hill out back on cardboard 6 years ago after we had 18 inches down here doesn’t count.
I did manage to get the nut roll made today to take to PA. Some may know it as kulache (spelling is probably wrong), a sweet dough is filled with walnut filling and then baked. The nut roll tradition has been going on in my family since I was little. My grandma used to make it, then my mom started making it after she passed. I still remember Christmas Eve’s going to sleep with the smell of baking nut roll filling the house. I tried some poppyseed filling in two of the rolls today, and won’t do that again. They turned out BAD. The one fell apart and we ended up eating that this evening. I have some pretty pictures of them that I will post later.
Well, need to get to bed. The 12 hour drive looms before us, and we have no idea what the weather will have in store in WV. Merry Christmas everyone!
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