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  • Let Them Eat Cake

    Mommy! We should make a rainbow cake! Of course, coming from my sweet little four year old’s sweet toothed mouth it sounded more like ‘Mommy! We sood make wainbow kake!’ So we did. We made a basic yellow cake and then added food coloring then globbed it in the pans. A swirl was attempted but […]

  • Let Them Eat Cake

    I admire the way that children eat.  They have not yet learned how to eat things like cake without letting their reactions show on their faces.  For us, it is an exercise in restraint.  We eat a small amount of cheesecake with the full knowledge of the fat and calories, as well workout ahead that […]

  • Happy cakey, gamey, bubbly home-life

    Bradley’s best was Space Age Bachelor Pad bathtime with the kids because they played so purely while Esquivel rocked us Muchachos and Muchachas. Gigi’s best was playing Paper Mario because we got to bake and find the fish bowl. Jude’s best was frosting the carrot cake at his level so he could wonder and sample […]

  • Coconut Gigi

    Gigi and I baked a carrot cake filled with every sort of dried fruit I could pull out of the freezer.  We frosted it with Tamara’s delicious icing and gigi dusted coconut over the top as angel fluff.  I let her have a taste from the bag of coconut to which she soured and replied […]

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