A birthday cake from Mom !!

Hi everybody out there in the Blogland Neighborhood! Tonight my parents dropped by to help me celebrate my birthday (even though it isn't until Friday .... so I'm not yet officially "that age" .... YET!) Anyway, I had instant nostalgia when Mom walked in carrying ......


...this covered cake plate .... I haven't seen this in years!! There was a time , when I was growing up when this cake plate had it's place on the kitchen counter whenever it was somebody's birthday. My mom has made some pretty spectacular birthday cakes for my sister, brother and me when we were kids. There was the rocket ship cake for my brother .... who has since become an aeronautical engineer and pilot ..... then there was the ballerina party for my 6th birthday ....


.... see the ballerina centerpiece? .... however, unlike my brother's rocket ship cake leading to his career in the airplane biz, my ballet "career" ended badly following my debut recital/disaster at the end of first grade (some teensy glitch when my parasol got stuck in my tu tu ).... oh well... ANYHOW, look at that pretty cake mom made ....


.....all those pretty pink lollipops around the top of the cake (by now you know our MBIAJ Photography Dept stinks ... so, you know the drill ... if you click on the picture to make it bigger you might possibly be able to see it better ... maybe .... plus , I'm sure there is a better way to do this than to take a picture of another picture , which is an ancient picture to begin with!!)

.....and what kind of cake was in the covered cake plate from Mom tonight ?



....a lemon pound cake !!! YUM !! (she did bring a WHOLE cake, but we were so busy shoveling it in that I forgot to take a picture until it was half gone!)

So, now the covered cake plate is sitting on my kitchen counter .... and it feels like home .... but only temporarily because Mom informed me that it can stay here just until the cake is gone .... then she wants it back ...... which will be sooner rather than later because in about 2 seconds I'll be heading for a fork .....

Be back soon!

Toodles,
Mary Anne (aka Mare)