yesterday a friends facebook status was, “im ready for summer.”
and just reading that gave me anxiety… i am SOO not ready for summer. i have staff to hire and aca standards to meet before i can even think about the fact that summer is… 3 1/2 months away.. (there is that anxiety again) the last 2 years i have had this awful nightmare that camp was starting and nothing was ready. it is utterly terrifying. way worse than the nightmares i used to have as a child (my dad can tell you about how I used to sleep with a hammer under my mattress… just in case) there was also a time where i used to have an overnight bag tied on to my bed incase there was a flood and i was floating away on my mattress.. i would have everything i might needed. i was such a strange child.
my mom just told me that obama was in the UP this week… he must have read my blog post about how great the upper peninsula of michigan is. apparently he went to “Donker’s,” a candy store that encompasses a huge portion of my childhood memories. i can remember going in there and mr. donkers letting jay and i fill little white bags with whatever candy we wanted.. when we were done he would put all of our little white bags in a few HUGE white paper bag that had a little green “Donker’s” stamp on the outside and jay and I would walk back to our great grandmothers house (just around the corner) and sort through everything we got… giant jawbreakers, swedish fish, snow caps,gummy bears, chocolate covered peanuts, chocolate covered cherries, truffles, lake superior pebbles, and of course donker’s famous fudge. it really is kind of insane to think about how much sugar we ate when we were up there.
now donker’s has been sold and has been turned into a candy store/ lunch counter. it is really cute and the food is delicious. when my friends from camp and i went up this summer we had lunch there and it was great, it was the first time i had been in since it was sold and i was pleasantly surprised.
check it out.
http://www.donckersfudge.com/
