Toot Sweet.

My Mom,

Alicia,

and I.

Picture us all together in my new cottage kitchen.

From 10 AM to 4:30

Messying it up again.

It wouldn't have taken so long to make everything if

I WERE MORE ORGANIZED!

But I'm not,

so it did (take that long).

First batch of cupcakes:

mixed it all together,

A triple batch.

baked the first batch.

remove from muffin tins.

load second batch,

realized that the batter was so thick

because I had forgotten to add the last ingredient:

WATER.

To the store for an unplanned purchase of more ingredients.

Peeps occupied themselves today.
Iced a few cupcakes.

sugared some icing here and there.

But mostly it was a movie day.

The reason for the season.

The tootsie rolls are the stems of the apple cupcakes.

The rock hard green

Dollar store look-a-like

were the leaves.

The leaves were a bear to manipulate.
I think, total absorption of candy

through our finger tips,

Added up

could have resulted the full days portion of food.

Our fingers feel like they've

been crocheting

All the life long

I have finally realized that there is nothing

to do to ever re-pay Alicia for the things she does for me.

She is just too bloomin' good to me.
She has removed stitches from my body for goodness sake.

Some of the finished product.
78 cupcakes to be exact.

Plus a cute little birthday ditty

Made especially for Claire's indulging pleasure.

My Mom.
She works out,
And can ice a mean cupcake.


The goldfish favors.

The last picture of Claire as a baby.

Because tomorrow,

She is a toddler.

Be still my aching heart.