project 52:3 | saturday mornings

When we lived on the east coast, it was easy to find a place for donuts. Dunkin Donuts was actually a nice, clean place to go to and get donuts. So very much unlike the run down, don't want to step foot in there, kind of places I had grown accustomed to back home. At some point while we were stationed back east, it became somewhat of a family thing to go there on Saturday mornings every now and then. It started the day in a special way.

With my love being gone frequently for days and weeks (and sometimes months) at a time, I found that I had to make a point in differentiating between weekdays and weekends since I'm a stay-at-home mommy. This little tradition helped in several ways. 1) It made it a "Saturday" thing making it feel like a weekend. 2) It was a great way to have some simple connecting time as a family. 3) When my love isn't there, we still have warm fuzzies surrounding us of when he has been there.

So, with all that in mind, we moved out here to the great state of Alaska to find that donuts just aren't as popular as they were out east. (Coffee shops are a whole other story.) But we discovered last weekend on our first "Donut Saturday" that there doesn't have to be a plethora to choose from if there's one good one--and yes, we found a supremely good one. Oh my goodness is it good. Let's just say that I'm glad its a bit further to get to this one than our old one back east was because it beats the pants off of Dunkin' Donuts. Plus, it totally made it worth dealing with the -25degree temperature mother nature decided to throw at us.

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