Snow Day!
Is there anything more wonderful than a snow day off (Brian pointed out that snow days are better than calling in well.)? Yes! A snow day off spent baking two, yes TWO cakes for a best girlfriend's 30th birthday/Christmas party AND making a delicious mexican soup for lunch (and dinner… for the next two weeks… we are not men of half measures). AND saving the choice quarter of the soup's lime to go into your mid-afternoon T&T? For the curious, the birthday cake is a scrumptious, double-batch Boston Cream Pie all from scratch and served in my prized crystal torte dish with a birthday message in powdered sugar on top. If only I had a camera, I would show you on my flickr account, but I don't… maybe in a week or so. *crosses fingers* The Christmas party cake is a boxed (and let it be said that I generally opposed prepackaged baked goods… I'm a scratch girl) yellow cake with tubbed chocolate frosting decorated with red icing for novelty's sake. The most thrilling about this project? I was recently gifted my mom's old Kitchen Aid mixer - the one I remember her using while I squirmed on a high stool next to her. And this evening I will fill out Christmas cards while watching my favorite Christmas movie (White Christmas) and it's all very jolly. So jolly and so important to unplug like this that I think we should rename 'snow day,' 'staff development day.'
