Hot Chocolate Horrors

Yeah... so right now I am about to get ready for bed. I am sitting in the living room, sipping on some hot chocolate, and enjoying the fact that Justin has not killed me. For Christmas we are making some people gift baskets that will include a variety of things. One of those things happens to be a mason jar full of home made hot chocolate mix. We figured we would get the mix making out of the way this evening. I had enough ingredients to make one batch. I wanted to see how many jars it would fill - that way I would know how much more stuff to buy. One batch filled about 4.3 jars. We set out to visit Wal Mart.

Of course we stayed much longer than we expected because we got some other shopping out of the way. We were both eager to get the nix made so we could head to bed. I jumped the gun and started pouring and measuring. It was quite odd though -- when we started filling the jars we had enough mix to fill 8 jars + some. We knew something had to be wrong. Turned out smart me - and I take ALL the credit - ended up added 150% more evaporated milk than we needed. Go Leslie!! It was the realization that it was 150% extra after about 20 minutes of what I like to call "heated discussion." We made some adjustments and made a test cup - which I am finishing up now.

The good thing is that we filled all the jars we needed, learned some vauable lessons, and have plenty of mix to last us through the winter. Now - I am going to take one last gulp of this lovely chocololate goodness and call it quits for today. The Pack game was a disaster, but we have to put that behind us and just look forward to next week (the Lions at home).

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night....