The Sugar Swap
Years ago I started a Recipe Swap. A group of gals would get together once a month to have pot luck lunch and swap recipes. We would always have a theme: quick and easy dinners, appetizers, a favorite dessert, etc. Due to everyone’s crazy schedules, the recipe swap fell apart.
Eventually, my recipe swap morphed into the Sugar Swap. Surprise, surprise, I know! My girlfriend Joanna and I both love to make sugar things. (I can’t say “dessert” because that signifies the end of a meal and my sugar is being consumed all day, at any random moment). As Joanna has been pregnant with baby #5, we have lunch when we are lucky enough to steal 15 minutes (Joanna had her baby girl on July 15th!) and we sit there eating salads; discussing cookies, cakes and pies.
Because 15 minutes are getting harder to find, Joanna and I have taken up meeting in clandestine places to swap the sugar concoctions we baked. She’ll e-mail at 9:00 pm saying…can I drive by? Or we meet in a school parking lot, a side street, a driveway. Sometimes words aren’t even spoken. We just drive past each other and swap, secretly, in silence. There is one golden rule….if don’t bring a fork or a spoon for an immediate mouthful…you are OUT! Game over!
Everyone needs a Sugar Swap! It’s a way us gals communicate & express friendship. It maintains sanity and keeps your sugar levels regulated. And you can’t get arrested for secretly swapping sugar. Worst case scenario – a few extra laps around the track.
Joanna’s thoughts on our Sugar Swap:
These swaps truly bring joy and serve as a reminder that our gal friendships are invaluable. It is these friendships we count on when all of our best laid hectic plans fail, when life simply intervenes and when things are just plain hard. These sugar swaps keep us remembering that the people in our lives matter infinitely more than our schedules, our errands, and our latest bargain basement finds. They make us smile. We are reminded that we are valuable and our sugar creations just simply taste really good.