Mother's Day is essentially the antithesis of Father's Day. On Mother's Day, moms everywhere foist their children on the dads and then they get an afternoon of relaxing away from children. Somehow on Father's Day, moms foist the children on the dads and ask them to parent, which they apparently normally don't do or something...
This year, I put the kids in charge of planning Cara's day. Because we needed some alone time to do what needed to be done, so Cara put Margaret down to a nap and fled to the coffee shop to knit alone. We then made the dinner the girls planned and wrapped the gifts.
Making cupcakes for mom. Sifting was a surprising amount of effort. Cockeye cake is a versatile recipe...
Gift wrapping time.
Oh look, Margaret woke up. What you see as a wrapping job for Frances' gift is essentially how Cara got. Oh yes, and Frances chose the wrapping paper.
Teresa is getting rather good at posing for pictures.
Gift wrapping done, I recalled the most important part of making cake. Licking the bowl clean.
And of course, licking yourself unclean.
And here is the dinner the girls planned for Cara: Hotdogs, Chicken nugget, Carrots & Strawberries. The girls & I got Cara an angel figurine, a set of Smurfs Season 1 DVDs & a cast iron frying pan.
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Frances should be proud - she's already as good a giftwrapper as her grandpa! ;->
(BTW, I only bother sifting the cocoa to get the lumps into powder, stirring seems to work for the rest)
I do understand why Frances picked the green paper - there is so much green outside in May. Mainly white paper should be for Christmas. Good wrapping job to both Teresa and Frances!
I resent Sarah's comment. I do not deny its accuracy.
The menu was just within Ken's culinary skills when a barbecue is not involved.
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