Christmas Brunch

Christmas morning I woke up at around 2 pm, yes 2 pm, feeling very rested and hungry! I could not wait to get out of bed, put on my new slippers and get to work making our special breakfast! Every morning I make breakfast for Brian and I, but it never contains this much sugar! I saw the recipe for these pancakes in my new cookbook and I had to try them. I love carrot cake so Carrot Cake Pancakes sounded like something right up my alley.

Brian did not like the smaller size pancakes the recipe instructed to make, so I had to make him one very large one so he would stop whining. There is something mentioned about Honey Butter, but I am not a fan of butter, so I just used Maple Syrup and Powdered Sugar.
Mmmmm!! Top Scores for this one!

Giant Pancake!

Carrot Cake Heart Pancake with Walnuts and Powdered Sugar

I love lots of syrup, no dry pancakes for me. I also "fried" up some Turkey Bacon in Cooking Spray. What a wonderful relaxing afternoon spent on Christmas Morning!

How did you spend Christmas Day?

ps. I know it has been awhile since my last post, things are going to go back to normal now after the holidays! Keep with me! I will be updating all this week!

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Last night Brian and I were in the car driving home reminiscing about memories from our childhood, and as the holidays are approaching I couldn't help but think about my memories of Christmas time with my parents when I was younger.

When Thanksgiving passes and all the holly, wreaths, lights and trees start to pop up everywhere, most people think of fond Christmas memories with their family dinners and unwrapping presents under a tree, but I think of helping my parents in their store.

Every year during Christmas break it was our job to wrap presents when someone bought something so the salesperson could go on to help the next person. We would try to come up with faster ways as the years went on to get the gifts wrapped to increase our number of packages per hour. We organized ribbon and bows, tape, cut paper to pre-determined sizes and prepared for the lines of people that needed their gifts wrapped. We were wrapping machines! Now that I am writing this it sort of sounds like child-slave labor, but we had the best time!

Christmas is almost here and I was just sitting here thinking about how nice it was to spend that time with my parents and my sister working to help our business instead of sitting at home bored watching TV.



What is your favorite Holiday memory?