Fun til Midnight

This year we gave up on having grown-up fun and went for a great New Year's Eve for the children instead. Every child got to have a friend over to spend the night, and we put in the time til midnight playing games, making raspberry ice cream, and watching multiple episodes of Gilligan's Island.

I had also made donuts earlier in the evening to have as snacks and they were so good! They are about as hard to make as biscuits--the only difference is frying them, which is the fun part! I just use my cast iron Dutch oven with about two inches of oil in it, and they only take two or three minutes per batch. I let them cool on a towel, then sprinkle with powdered sugar shaken through a wire mesh strainer.

The evening went off with only one hitch, about which the less said, the better. I will note that the Composer's New Year's resolution as expressed on the way to church, was "to not have anyone over to spend the night who is going to throw up."