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Easter Cake Success!

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A couple of years ago, I pinned a cake to my Easter board at Pinterest:

Easter Cake Inspiration

Look at the comment. 🙂 So I decided this was going to be that day and gathered what I needed. It was really easy. 

I made the chocolate layer cake in 6 inch pans because we really didn’t need that much cake and it makes it just her size. Then I made buttercream frosting and tinted it purple. Put that together, attached the Peeps all around, sprinkled Easter M&Ms on top and Voila!  My cake:

Easter Cake

I was really happy with the way it turned out and hoped the glambaby would love it, too.

We had it for brunch today and she loved it!

Glambaby Easter Cake

She wanted the Peeps off of it. She decided earlier that she likes Peeps since they are marshmallows which she loves. She then proceeded to eat the ears off of every bunny Peep she got a hold of. She liked the M&Ms that were on top of it, too. Honestly, I’m not sure if she even ate the cake part of it but I knew the way it looked made her happy and that was enough for me. 🙂

Success! 

Playing The Beatles

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This morning, I woke up to a text from my BCF (best cousin forever), Cindy:

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That brought back memories to me, too. Although I honestly don’t remember even having a butcher block at our house on Princeton.

My dad used to travel as a salesman. One of my earliest memories is of my sister Julie and I standing at the top of the stairwell looking down to see him because we heard him coming home.

And dad showed us this:

harddaysnight

And we were SO excited! A new Beatles album had just been released and our daddy brought it home!

A Hard Days Night was released on August 11, 1964 so I wasn’t even four years old yet but I remember that. I also remember watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. I would have been three years old when that happened. Prior to this morning and checking dates, I thought my earliest memory was when President Kennedy was shot but The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show preceded the shooting of the president!

My parents were huge music fans and the Beatles were always playing when we were in the house. I know all the words to every Beatles song because I learned them pretty much like I learned English.

My sisters and Cindy and I used to play The Beatles. I was Paul, Cindy was George, Julie was John and, because she was younger than us, Becky had to be Ringo.

These are good memories. I didn’t watch the tribute to the Beatles that was on TV last night like seemingly everyone else I know did. But when I hear any Beatles song, I’m usually blasted back to those times playing the Beatles with my girls. 🙂

Book Review: Double Dip

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Double Dip (Davis Way Crime Caper #2)Double Dip by Gretchen Archer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a funny book and had me laughing out loud at times.

Davis Way is on the security team at a casino in Alabama. She’s also a dead ringer – and social stand in – for the casino owner’s wife which she gets paid for. As a member of the security team, she’s responsible for many different things, whatever the occasion calls for and it was a fast ride through the story.

Davis has a boyfriend and an ex ex husband named Eddie who gets in the way of their relationship.

This is the second book in the series and I haven’t read the first book but I definitely will! 🙂

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Making Pizza

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We now get to have the glambaby with us on Fridays since she’s been going to school on Wednesdays and Thursdays in the new year.

It’s always so much fun to have her here. We’re both amazed at how long she’ll sit and color or do crafty type things. She really likes them.

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Since we had such a good outing when we baked cookies the first time, I thought we’d have her help make lunch today and start learning the family pizza recipe.  I got the dough all ready so we just had to spread it out on the pizza stone. She wasn’t too keen on helping me spread the oil on the stone or sprinkle the cornmeal. But when I brought out the little pizza dough roller she was ready to play.

She did a great job helping to spread the tomato paste.

sauce

Then she gave the base a good dousing of Italian seasoning.

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I’m not sure she liked the feel of the cheese. She sprinkled a little bit on but each of the two times she touched it, she inspected her hand after the cheese was out of it. Then we opened pineapple which she promptly started to eat. She put no pineapple on the pizza. I did that. Then I added sausage.

It looked and tasted great. And it was so much fun.

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We’ve been holding off on buying furniture for the house since we moved in because we have some renovations we want to do first. Well, today I decided that I don’t ever want to buy furniture. It’s way too much fun to run, chase, hide, bounce balls, and generally act like we’re on the playground. Which is what we do the rest of the time she’s here. 🙂

I hate everything about you

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If you’ve read this blog much at all, you know how much music is a part of my life. There is always music on in the car and I always sing along.

When the kids were small, they’d join in.

Today, I was driving to Tulsa and the song (I Hate) Everything About You by Ugly Kid Joe came on the radio. I love that song. It’s fun. :-)

Now you wouldn’t think a song about hating someone could be fun but the tune is bouncy, the lyrics are catchy, there is maniacal laughter and different sorts of vocal changes in it.

When I hear the song now, I literally laugh out loud.

The reason? The song was popular in 1992. Brandon was 10 and Geoff was 9. We sang it loud, word for word, in the car, on the way to…

church.

OMG!

What kind of a mother was I?

It’s this that makes me laugh. But we had fun. And we didn’t mean it. We just liked the fun.:-)