Christmas is getting closer!

Only one more week until it's christmas eve! Keira is being especially nice. She loves to help with the dishes. Every time I open the dishwasher she comes running over and starts handing the silverware to me one by one while I put it away. She's even started to hand me the little plates and bowls, which i have to hurry and grab from her because if i don't she might drop and break them. So I found Keira a toy dishwasher for christmas online but when i went to buy it, it was sold out. Oh well, I found a really good deal on a little kitchen set. And it has everything and a dishwasher on it. I can't wait until she plays with it on christmas morning!





Speaking of Christmas Morning, Our new tradition is to have Aebleskivers for breakfast. Or Pancake puffs for those of you that have seen the info-mercial on them. My dad gave us kids a cast iron pan and stove last christmas, since i am like 75% danish, it's all about our heritage. You don't have to do just pancakes you can also make muffins and omlets in them. The Pancakes are so good, once they're cooked you roll them in butter and them powdered sugar, and can put jam or syrup on them. I grew up making homemade maple syrup all the time with mapeline. And then I married Dan and he always buys the store bought kind, and I don't love store bought kind and he doesn't really like the homeade kind. So I found this new recipe for Buttermilk Syrup and it is so good! All you need is...
3/4 Cup of Buttermilk
1 1/2 Cup of Sugar
1 Stick of Butter
2 Tbsp Corn Syrup
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
Then you bring to a boil, and you'll need a large pan because it gets all foamy and could boil over and it's not very fun to clean up. Then you just let it simmer for a few minutes and then take off heat and add vanilla, then just eat it by the spoonful. you could even double the recipe and save it in the fridge. I wonder if it would taste even more carmely with brown sugar, I might have to try that.
MMmmmm.