Easy Bake, Babies and Irish Morality

My fave little Claire, had a bday and I made some Easy Bake Oven mix for her with her mom. We made Summer Sunshine Lemon Cake, Flower Pot Chocolate Cake, Frosty Locks White Icing, and My Little Pony Oatmeal Cookie mix. We tied the plastic baggies with ribbons and raffia.


Summer Sunshine Lemon Cake

1 C sugar
1 1/2 C flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp lemon flavored unsweetened drink powder (like KoolAid)
1/3 C vegetable shortening

Combine dry ingreds. Cut in shortening. Scoop 1/3 C in plastic baggies (Makes 10 packages). Add 4 tsp water to use in EasyBake Oven. Use within 12 weeks.

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On Sat a.m. Ellery and I went to a mom and daughter brunch. I made a pretty baguette and cheese spread but I didn't like it so I'll not torture you with a recipe that's yuck.

Saturday night I got a date night in a new outfit. Cyler and I ate at the small community theater in So Ft Worth and saw Lonesome West. The play was funny, instructive about the mimetic nature of vengeance and the Irish accents were superb. Sunday I got homemade school gifts, a corsage to wear to church (I put it in my hair) and Cyler said some nice things about me in his talk during sacrament meeting. The boys had baseball, so Ellery and I ate Italian and saw the new movie Babies. Ellery was full of questions ("What is that brown stuff on the baby's bum? It just got born. Does the baby poop in the mom's tummy? Why is that mom squirting her baby in the face with her milk? They don't have water in Mongolia? Why is that baby eating a rock?) Good Times.

Work Hard Play Hard Washerwoman

Friday night we fed 330 teens for youth conference. Dinner at 7, dessert at 10pm. 39 tables seated nine each. One of the guys helping to set up asked, "Do you think they'll appreciate this?" I said, "Not until they do it for someone in turn." In the middle of the chaos I realized that my neck pain which had been with me since I fell out of Scorpion pose a few weeks ago had gone away. Hmm.The Bread Cave.

On Saturday, I got to have fun. I got an updo at the salon.

That was after I went to my friend's house and helped her do flowers for her Kentucky Derby party. She let me take this arrangement home as a thank you.

Chicken salad, bourbon balls, shrimp cocktail, cucumber sandwiches, meringues.

Horseshoes with the gentlefolk. (And rockband, betting on the horses, and a not too rousing rendition of "My Old Kentucky Home").

Today I am washing--family dishes, sheets/towels, dog dishes, coolers and crockpots from Friday night, pool filters, purse linings, sippy cups from Nursery yesterday. I wonder how Cinderella felt after her updo, pretty dress, and hat were put away. I feel like staying in my jammies (done) and playing on the computer (done).