Cup of Cozy

Our family typically does Thanksgiving on the Wednesday evening before the actual holiday. It's been like that for as long as I've been around, and we kinda like it. It makes the actual holiday really chill. We heat up the leftovers and lay around on the couch in food induced comas, and if you're part of the Barron section of the family you run a half marathon "turkey trot", but that's another story. ;)

Now that the actual Thanksgiving holiday has been celebrated around these parts, I'm all about bringing on the Christmas. It's such a cozy time of year...and the perfect time for stuff like hot chocolate. The other night it was cold and rainy and the forecast was calling for "make hot chocolate or else". So I hunted down a paleo version of hot chocolate. (I love paleo recipes...I'm really getting into using natural ingredients and trying to cut processed stuff out of our diet. Beside the point...but hey.)

I really like this recipe...it was just the cozy, warm sumthin' sumthin' that I needed. The kids liked it, too. Billy rarely likes anything paleo except for straight up meat wrapped in bacon, but he did drink some of it. ;) It was also so simple that even I didn't burn/spill/ruin/explode anything. Yahoo.

So now that I can allow myself to listen to Christmas carols and decorate, (I'm a firm believer in NOT mixing my holidays...Thanksgiving needs the proper attention before Christmas gets it's turn so that it doesn't feel left out.) I think a cup or two of this will come in handy. Hope all y'all had a great Thanksgiving!