Making Candy

My mother-in-law asked E. and I to help her make Valentine candy with some of the residents where she volunteers at a nursing home. We were to go last week - BEFORE Valentine's Day so that the residents could give the candy they made to their families - but, alas, the snowstorm changed our plans. So we went yesterday - and had a great time. We spent two and half hours helping them make chocolate hearts, peanut butter cups, chocolate truffles, and chocolate-covered cherries. The three of us then joined up with Ben (who fixed his grandmother's computer) and Caleb and my father-in-law (who were shoveling the walks around the village) for lunch in the cafeteria. We headed home after our visit, and I went straight to bed for a nap!