oops!

Brandon told me a few weeks ago

that

one of the things he loves about summer

is all of the cold drinks.

So

I've purposed to be more generous with my "Yeses"

when the kids ask if they can have a snow cone.

~

For the syrup flavors,

we use koolaid

made with 2/3 the sweetener and 1/4 the water.

All summer long

Brandon has been making the syrup

with 1/2 sugar, 1/2 xylitol

~

Today

I told him to up the sugar and decrease the xylitol

because the xylitol is soo expensive

and I hadn't noticed any ill-effects from the sugar in the snow cones

~

big mistake.

HUGE.