Sweet Stuff

 

Our family tradition is to make donuts on Halloween and this year I took a shortcut and used a King Arthur baking mix.

The Big Grand and I overfilled the pan so we had some strange looking donuts but they were good. 

After eating a tub full of candy on Halloween, I had to force myself to go into Ikea on the way home from Daughter's to get my Christmas cookies. They didn't have my usual small tin of holiday gingersnaps so I bought a big tin and two boxes of them along with a chocolate Advent calendar. 

It's a bit of whiplash to go from Halloween right into Swedish Jul but Daughter had already declared it the first day of Christmas that morning. After we left to head home she was packing up her boys to go to Home Goods for their Christmas decor before it was all gone. 

Betty's not exactly sweet but she's not sour either and in order to keep her that way she can't be put in the fridge. That means I have to pack her up and take her with me so I can feed her. I bought her this new heated travel case that she absolutely loved. She made beautiful bubbles all weekend in it. 

The night before we left I made another one of those easy peasy two loaf pan loaves and proved to myself it wasn't a fluke. Betty may not be sweet but she's a real sweetheart. Along with a couple of avocados, she kept me fed all weekend while everyone else was eating Goblin Franks (hot dogs).