tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27333429154290187712024-03-19T01:25:37.040-07:00Rindy Mae"Very little is needed to make a happy life."Mindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07247379600555185331noreply@blogger.comBlogger130214tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733342915429018771.post-30420485955573346062020-02-11T07:55:00.001-08:002020-02-11T07:55:22.519-08:00Life Lately: 2/2020Hello!<br />
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I've recently started writing blog posts in my head again, so I figured it was about time I sit down and type.<br />
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After being gone for so long, I run the risk of this being extremely long, but I'll do my best not to wear out my welcome.</div>
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I guess I'll start with the farmstand, since that's what I spent a ton of my time on last year.</div>
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If you're on Instagram or Facebook, I post regular updates about what's happening down there.</div>
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You can find them both at Northrop Acres.</div>
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The whole thing kinda started out as a fluke.</div>
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The kids thought it would be fun to sell some produce our first full summer here.</div>
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They quickly realized how much work it was and declined the job year two.</div>
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As always, I had tons of perennials I was dividing that spring, so I figured I'd put them out on a table and see if they'd sell.</div>
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That turned into produce, and eventually, at the suggestion of a customer who received thank you flowers with her fruit order, I started making bouquets in early summer.</div>
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I still just had a table and my old potting bench down there, but with the sun and wind, I was constantly shifting from one side of the driveway to the other, and picking up broken jars off the ground.</div>
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After weeks of sweet talking (nagging) The Dad got started on a cute little shelter for me.</div>
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We ran out of summer sunshine to get it finished, but it was a HUGE time saver for me to be able to put stuff down there and not have to check on it multiple times a day.</div>
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Hopefully this spring we can get the siding and roof put on.</div>
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Then double swing open doors so I can lock it up at night.</div>
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Because it all sort of just happened organically, I'm looking forward to going into this growing season with the stand in mind.</div>
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In other news, we had to put White Goat down last year when he got really sick.</div>
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It was a low day for The Mom.</div>
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We buried him in the pasture.</div>
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Sadly, we also lost Leonard, our sweet, music loving turkey, last year, as well.</div>
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It was my first loss to a predator and fingers crossed it's my last.</div>
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It was really, really, awful.</div>
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We buried her in the garden under one of the olive trees.</div>
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I made a special bouquet with some of her feathers.</div>
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Funny, Delilah, who would never come near us, has now imprinted on me.</div>
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She waits for me on the stoop every morning and follows me around outside wherever I go.</div>
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It's pretty sweet.</div>
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The kids are doing great.</div>
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All three are playing sports.</div>
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The Little One (Baby who isn't a baby anymore) played soccer for the first time last year and will do so again this year.</div>
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The Girl is still playing baseball with the boys, basketball, and soccer.</div>
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The Kid is also still playing baseball, as well as basketball. </div>
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He tried football for two seasons and says never again. Ha!</div>
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The Girl turned twelve in October.</div>
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We celebrated with the usual, requested meal, dinner at home.</div>
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In January, The Kid turned fourteen.</div>
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And, The Little One is now eight as of this month.</div>
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Eight!</div>
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I swear I was just posting belly pics and ya'll were trying to guess if she'd be a boy or a girl.</div>
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Again, the usual food-focused gathering with family.</div>
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She chose koala bears as her theme.</div>
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I still just can't get over how fast the years have flown by.</div>
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I took this picture of the kids with their cousins on her birthday.</div>
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This one was taken eight years prior, in the hospital the day she was born.</div>
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Other than that and the holidays, I've just been plugging away, still settling in, and slowly making things our own around here.</div>
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Winter didn't seem as long this year.</div>
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I always look forward to hunkering down and reading as many books as I can get through, but I've only read one since Christmas.</div>
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Where The Crawdads Sing - so good.</div>
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But I still have a stack and spring has sprung!</div>
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The yard is obviously keeping me busy. </div>
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Spring clean up is always overwhelming and the to-list could fill an entire spiral notebook.</div>
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But as I work away on the things that need to be done, I'm daydreaming of what will come next out there.</div>
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So many ideas floating around in this brain of mine.</div>
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I'm anxious to see how it all plays out.</div>
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I know I said the same thing early last spring, but I'm gonna try to give the blog a go again.</div>
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With gardening season upon us, there will be plenty of fodder to post about.</div>
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Before I go, I wanted to share that the magazine with the article of our old garden is back on stands right now for its third release.</div>
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I spied it at Albertsons!</div>
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Pretty fun.</div>
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So if you missed it the first time, and second, time around, you can check it out next time you're waiting in line for groceries.</div>
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Mindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07247379600555185331noreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733342915429018771.post-36511148484013271342019-02-21T10:40:00.000-08:002019-02-21T10:40:29.728-08:00The Yard: 2/19/19<br />
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My first official real-time yard post at the new house.</div>
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Kinda exciting.</div>
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Most of you know, I am <i>not </i>a winter gardener.</div>
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I hate to be cold.</div>
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I have zero desire to be out working in the dirt anytime between October and March.</div>
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Okay, sometimes we get nice days in February, but this year so far has been a bust.</div>
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I went out one day over the weekend with my pruners, thinking I'd tackle at least one of the kagillion pruning projects, and was immediately overwhelmed.</div>
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So I cleaned out raised beds instead.</div>
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I couldn't feel my fingers when I was done, so I headed back inside.</div>
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Then yesterday was in the mid-forties, with sunny skies, so I went out again and weeded the Rainbow Garden.</div>
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It was several hours worth, so I felt like I accomplished something.</div>
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Other than that, the only time I've been out there is for watering the greenhouse plants, or brief spurts with my camera.</div>
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All of these photos were taken on Tuesday.</div>
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I had never grown snowdrops (Galanthus) before.</div>
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Can you believe it?</div>
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I inherited quite a few patches of double flowered ones with the house.</div>
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I moved some around last spring to places I could see out the windows.</div>
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They're so dang cute.</div>
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These, coming up through the thyme, are in the septic tank bed.</div>
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Under the hydrangeas next to the porch.</div>
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One of the things still on the to-prune list.</div>
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The daffodils are popping up all over the place.</div>
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I was in shock last year when I saw how many were here.</div>
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None blooming yet, but lots with buds showing.</div>
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The inherited Nandina out the kitchen window is loaded with berries.</div>
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This crazy hebe in the front yard has been blooming all winter.</div>
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I brought it from the old house.</div>
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I got several free candytuft (Iberis) babies our first summer here.</div>
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These out front are just starting to bloom.</div>
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No tag, but the dark center is different than I remember seeing on the ones in the old neighborhood.</div>
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Maybe I just never payed that close attention.</div>
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Another freebie, also out front, Euphorbia.</div>
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Over in the Rainbow Garden, the wallflowers (Erysimum) are blooming their little hearts out.</div>
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I bought a purple, orange and yellow off the clearance rack last summer.</div>
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The yellow one is alive, but hasn't bloomed since bringing it home.</div>
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The other two have had flowers non-stop.</div>
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Definitely worth the dollar bill I paid for each.</div>
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A new peony that I bought last year is up and at 'em!</div>
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I got two at a street fair we went to and I think this one is 'Coral Sunset.'</div>
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And last, I finally did something I've wanted to do for years.</div>
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I picked one each of the blooming hellebores and put them in the birdbath.</div>
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They are so dang pretty.</div>
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I want <i>all</i> the different varieties!</div>
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I definitely need some doubles.</div>
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These are all from plants I brought with me.</div>
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There were a couple here, but they're not blooming yet.</div>
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The sun is out again...it's so deceiving from this side of the windows...but I think I'll throw on some work clothes and see if I can't get another spot weeded today.</div>
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Mindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07247379600555185331noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733342915429018771.post-90173039526627452412019-02-19T10:27:00.001-08:002019-02-19T10:27:54.228-08:00Valentine's Day 2019<div style="text-align: center;">
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Figured I'd throw some Valentine's day pics out there like the old days.</div>
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We did what we've done pretty much every year since popping out all these kids....</div>
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....dinner at home.</div>
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The table setting wasn't as elaborate as I've done in the past.</div>
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I used a tablecloth that the little one wanted for her birthday, but was too small with all the leaves in the table. </div>
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It still didn't fit, but oh well.</div>
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Paper doilies, cloth napkins, the flowers that I managed to eek out of the yard, some conversation hearts and their little boxes of chocolates.</div>
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Just enough to make it more special than a random weekday.</div>
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Hellebores, snowdrops (Galanthus), and wallflower (Erysimum) were put at each place.</div>
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By the way, my purple and orange wallflowers have been blooming nonstop since last summer.</div>
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Definitely a winner in the garden, especially this time of year.</div>
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My mom mailed this to the kids.</div>
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Isn't it cute?!</div>
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Under the money it said, Grammy loves you.</div>
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The Dad brought home these goodies.</div>
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It's like he knows me or something.</div>
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The Kid and The Girl both had basketball practice, so I didn't do much in the way of appetizers.</div>
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By the time everyone was home together, we were all starving and ready for the main event.</div>
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Just a little picky plate to munch on while The Dad grilled.</div>
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Annnnd, everything cooked and ready to eat.</div>
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No fancy plating...everyone's bellies were rumblin'...just family-style dinner.</div>
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Haven't said this in a long time.....</div>
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Can you believe it?</div>
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Some of you were around when I announced I was pregnant.</div>
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And then followed my belly pictures every month.</div>
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And then waited, along with us, to find out if it was a boy or a girl.</div>
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Seven.</div>
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Man, it's like they say, The days are long, but the years are short.</div>
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The other two don't much care about "themed" birthdays anymore, so I probably only have a few more years of it with the little one.</div>
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She didn't specify a theme, but she had her grandma send me a photo of the cake she wanted.</div>
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I saw it and was like, ummmmm, okay, we'll give it a shot.</div>
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It had to be easier than <a href="http://rindymae.blogspot.com/2016/02/ariel-barbie-cake.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Ariel</span></b></a>, right??</div>
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After showing me the picture, she told me that it didn't have to be perfect, as long as I tried my best.</div>
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That girl is so dang sweet.</div>
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This is the photo I was given.</div>
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I have no idea where they found it.</div>
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I read up on the differences between fondant and gum paste, and decided to try my hand at the gum paste.</div>
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I just bought a tub of white at the grocery store and used some gel food coloring I already had to get the pink and green.</div>
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Then I busted out my cutters, that I got eons ago at an estate sale and have never used, and got to work.</div>
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A glass skewer with a ball on the end was perfect for the flowers...the pokey end worked good for helping to fold over the leaves.</div>
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An upside down egg carton held them in place until they were dry.</div>
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I made those a few days ahead of time and just kept them in the egg carton.</div>
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In addition to the cake, I made flower and leaf sugar cookies and decorated them with buttercream frosting.</div>
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I baked the cake a few days before her party, and kept it in the freezer.</div>
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The day before, I assembled it and got it frosted.</div>
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She doesn't like frosting, so I always use whipped cream for her cakes and cupcakes.</div>
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Usually I whip it myself, but this time I gave Cool Whip a try.</div>
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It worked out just as good.</div>
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The layers got whip and strawberries, per her request.</div>
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Crumb coat went on, then back into the freezer until I was ready to finish it.</div>
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I had forgotten I wanted to color it to match the inspiration photo up until this point, so the filling and crumb coat were white.</div>
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I used regular food coloring to get a barely baby blue for the final outside coat.</div>
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Her real birthday was that Friday, and we always do dinner at home with their requested meal.</div>
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She asked for cheese ravioli with pesto, which I had in the freezer from summer, Caesar salad, garlic bread, and then added chicken strips with ranch at the last minute.</div>
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The next day, we had our usual family gathering to celebrate.</div>
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She asked for her dad's famous cabbage rolls with mashed potatoes and green beans.</div>
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The appetizers filled the table to start.</div>
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Homemade pickles from the Armenian cucumbers I grew.</div>
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More homemade pickles with homegrown beans and garlic.</div>
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These are the house favorite.</div>
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Another birthday documented.</div>
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As quickly as seven came, seventeen will be here before I know it.</div>
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