Birthdays and Polka Dot Cake

 There are certain life markers

that indicate the passing of time.

Like getting an invitation

 to a high school reunion and thinking 

40 years?  Really?

Or 

retiring from a career that has

been the majority of your lifetime.

Sometimes it's birthdays, 

it can be your own,

or the birthdays of your children.

It seems like only yesterday they were babies

and now they're  grown 

with a family of their own.

And you say, "When did that happen?"

This weekend we headed to Denver to

celebrate the birthday of our oldest daughter, Elizabeth.

What a joy she has been to our lives.

 5 years old

 1986

A birthday celebration

always requires a cake.

And in this case, it needed to be a polka dot cake.

Here's how you do it.

First, you make some polka dots.

Bake them in a cake.

Have a good helper.

Then smear big globs of chocolate frosting.

Add few decorations.

Along with a candle.
(Any one will do)

Sprinkle in a few hugs and kisses.

And you have a fun birthday celebration.

Then next year,

you'll wonder again,

"Where did the time go?"

Until Next Time-