Lessons learned from making over 600 chocolate-covered peanut butter balls
Me getting ready for our annual candy making: "I set aside the whole afternoon to make candy"
Mother-in-law: "we need to make 6 batches"
Me: "Cool. How many is that?"
Mother-in-law: "Not too many. Maybe 500 or so"
Me: ………. opens wine
After 2 full days, an insane amount of butter, sugar and chocolate, and plenty of Advil, I learned several things:
💪 There is no substitute for perseverance.
Two 12 hour days of standing. My back is killing me, my feet hurt and I just want to sit down. But I can't leave my mother-in-law to do this herself. So I push through and just enjoy the process. Stick to the job that needs to be done. And keep melting that damn chocolate
💪 There is no substitute for mastery.
If I was left up to my own devices, I guarantee the chocolate would have locked up, things would have melted. My mother-in-law's years of experience in doing that made it so she knew all the little tricks for melting chocolate on double boilers, the right consistency for the coconut bon-bons, and the right brand of almond bark.
💪 There is no substitute for a good attitude.
Yes I'm tired of standing, no I don't want to taste anymore chocolate, no the Advil hasn't kicked in. But I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to spend this time with my mother-in-law, to have a warm house with Christmas music playing, to have my 4 year old daughter get the experience of making candy with family. So perspective matters. Get in the moment and enjoy the ride.
I certainly learned plenty of other things: which Christmas stations on Apple Music are the best, that my new anti-fatigue kitchen mats are amazing, how much peppermint bark a 4 year old can eat before getting a tummy ache, what I don’t love about all of my aprons, and maybe most importantly, how much people love getting that box of candy from us every year.
So I'm off to hide the chocolate-covered peanut butter balls so my son doesn't eat them all and sneak one myself.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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