Saturdays (aka Donut Day)

This post is a little belated since it's already Thursday, but that just shows how crazy busy I've been this week. Lots of projects for school. Anyway, I wanted to document our Saturday morning ritual..........DONUTS!!!!! It's a very long story, but suffice to say that treating ourselves to donuts on Saturday mornings is a very important part of our family history and even though the girls are grown and gone, we still keep the memory alive. There's a wonderful donut shop about a 10-15 drive from our home (yes it's that important) called Yum Yum Donuts. So after sleeping in to our hearts' content, we make the drive and settle in for a delectable feast. This is how it goes: we take our own coffee(Tim) and milk (me, because I like non fat frosty-cold milk and they don't always have it). This is is the mug I use. Kristen made it for me years ago and I'm tickled pink I get to actually use it because I rarely drink hot beverages, especially on the go. While Tim is making his coffee he pours the milk into this and puts it in the freezer while I get showered, etc. By the time we leave the house it has a slight frosty layer, yum:) Once we are there I go and grab a seat. There aren't many but there's usually one available. Meanwhile, Tim stands in line and buys the donuts. I let him pick because we like similar things. He buys 4 donuts and we split each one. Our very favorite is only available during the fall........pumpkin! Several times this past fall we arrived at the shop when they had just put them on the shelf. They were still warm and the experience of eating a freshly made donut is hard to compare to anything else. It's simply delectable. It sort of makes it difficult to go back to eating room temp donuts again, but somehow we go on:) Another top favorite is a glazed buttermilk stick and of course their regular glazed are wonderful as well. This particular day Tim opted for an Apple Fritter. We split that one 70/30 because eating the equivalent of two regular donuts once a week is indulgent enough and an apple fritter is considerably bigger than a donut (after all, they do have holes in the middle, whereas a fritter is filled with gooey sugary apples!!)

This particular Saturday was Valentine's Day so I took a photo at the next stop we made and that was at Barnes & Noble. I had bought Tim a gift card for his birthday and he wanted to use it to buy a new journal.
Here's the selection. It took a while for him to find just the right one and for some insane reason I didn't photograph it, but you get the idea.

Aside from the journal buying, that's how a typical Saturday morning goes for us. We look forward to it all week long:)