Cinnamons

I got my Food Network magazine last Wednesday, and when my oldest caught a glimpse of the cover it was on!

“Mommy, please can you make those cinnamon rolls for breakfast?”

Without a thought in my my head I made the biggest mistake a mother can make while having a convo with her children…

“Maybe this weekend honey”

oops! I will blame it on my 1200 calorie diet I’ve been trying to keep up for 2 months now. My brain hasn’t had enough nutrition lately!

Fast forward to Friday evening, when I came home from work. I mixed and mixed, and turned and buttered and wrapped. In the fridge till morning!

This is the point where it was starting to pay off for me. The house smelled delish, and my family was super happy as I pulled it out of the oven.

I snapped one last picture for you, and threw my “not-gonna-be-fat-in-Europe-diet” out the window. I was super pumped at this point: iced coffee & cinnamon rolls.

First bite was eh… yes all that work and eh. If I was going to put all that time in, I really should have stuck with the Cinnabon knockoff that is splashed all over the internet.

It does make for pretty pictures though, right?!

Vintage of the Bubbly kind

Have I mentioned we have a Chocolate Company in our town? Yeap! In fact, in the first couple years after I moved to the South Bend area, I had a wedding to plan, and… I purchased my bridesmaids a mini box of chocolates. Each one picked by me, according to their tastes.

I adore everything about the South Bend Chocolate Co. Café, I could easily write a dozen posts about them alone. It is Chocolate after all, we know what an addiction I have!

This post, however is not about chocolate, but it is about sugar of another variety. Soda Pop! Every vintage soda pop I’ve ever heard of, and loads I haven’t…

I had to take pictures to share with you, all the colors, and lined up all nice and pretty. Doesn’t it make you want to sample every single one? I know I sure do… however, I am starting with the root beers first. They seem to remind me of my childhood the most, and there are several of them. (Side note: I tried the DANG! butterscotch root beer pictured in front, holy yumm) Who knew there were so many types of Vintage soda?

Someone give me a swirly-loopy straw! <3