Alternate---simplest way to do it - sm
Posted By: on 2008-10-29
In Reply to: OH...what to do...??? - Lolabug
When I was first married we lived 20 minutes from my in-laws and 2 hours from my parents. So we would do Thanksgiving at one, then Christmas at the other, then flip that the next year so one did not get us every year for the same holiday. Though if it was Christmas at my parents, we'd spend Christmas Eve day with his parents, have dinner-6pm-, then drive up to my parents house that night, which always ticked me off as when we had Christmas there, I would not see my family until the day after Christmas. His parents would actually get mad at me for driving up to see my family on Dec. 26...thought I should wait a few days or not go at all. Now years later, things have changed some, now 2 hours from in-laws, and 4 hours from my family (mom died, dad remarried so now have her whole family to deal with too). My DH came to hate driving somewhere for the holiday's so every 3 years we stay home, granted don't think we have ever had a Christmas alone, if we stay home his parents and brother come over. We have actually in the 12 years we have been married we have never invited them over, they just tell us they are coming basically. We have said no on occasion of course, but would feel like scrooges if we did that at Christmas. This year we go to my dad's but we are going before Christmas I think, so that will mean probably we either hoof it to his parent's for Christmas or we stay home and they come (which they did last year I think). We are staying put this year for Thanksgiving, as I don't want to go to his parents and it is insane to even contemplate my dad's as my stepmom refuses to not see her family on every holiday....though I did tell them I want them to come here for Thanksgiving, so that ought to be interesting.
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Here's the simplest (and best to me) recipe sm
12 oz. pkg. butterscotch chips
12 oz. jar peanut butter
9 oz. can chow mein noodles
Melt chips in a saucepan, add peanut butter and remove from heat. Stir well. Add chow mein noodles. Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper.
I have some mixes that I alternate...
they all have some country, 80s and 90s rock, contemporary Christian...a real hodge podge.
...oops! Have fun with it. Alternate the pieces in groups of 3, mix and match
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I do something similar but alternate cheese, cubed ham, and broccoli. There is also sm.
melted butter involved. We love it.
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