So Daddy and M went to great lengths to make me a Red Velvet cake for my birthday. If you look closely you'll see that they dyed the filling frosting blue. With the white cream cheese with coconut pecan icing on the outside it was truly red, white & blue. It was good but didn't make the Recipe Canon.
Another quirk you should know about is that I'm a FIRM believer that there should be the correct number of candles in a cake. I'm grateful we can find the box of 500 or something for about a dollar at Party City because I also don't clean candles. Are you kidding? Licking them off is part of the fun and I'm not washing that many candles! So the top of the cake had plenty of holes. Anyway, I got back from camp on Saturday and we celebrated a day early by going to dinner and having our neighbors come over for cake. Then we put the kids to bed and watched fireworks from our cul de sac. We were going to watch from the roof (AND I even climbed on the roof!) but alas our own trees blocked the view.
Sunday was fairly low key but we sang all my favorite hymns and M even picked up part of America the Beautiful. (Thank goodness for repetitive phrases in hymns.)
Every birthday is a review of where I am and where I want to be. I've decided my key words for next year are these.
Smile.
I can see the wrinkles developing. I think smile wrinkles are cute and frowning ones aren't. I want to make sure I get the right kind.
Play.
I want to be part of my kids life and I think this is imperative to the process.
Laugh.
See above.
Listen.
Sometimes I open my mouth without listening. I need to do better at this.
Love.
I'm trying to be like Jesus.
If I do more of all of these I will be a better mommy and a better person.
1 comment:
That isn't a cupcake?!!? but still looks good.
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