If you are not a cake-making person, this recipe is for you. Well, if you are not a cake-making person, but you want to attempt it, and if you like pumpkin, then this recipe is for you.
A fire truck party without the fire
Dear Ethan and Maya,
Last month we planned a fire truck party for your birthdays. How innovative! Thanks to your aunt Karin who unintentionally bid for and won this party package during a charity auction. “Unintentionally” because she almost forgot about it until a week before our originally booked skating party, she called, “So a bunch of fire fighters will come to your house with a fire truck, kids can take a ride on it, and they will cook for the families.” I was all, “Oh yeah! Fire fighters in their uniforms making hot dogs? Bring it on!”
Only the thought of going on a real moving fire truck already blew your minds. And you were literally mentioning it in every other sentence the whole week leading to the party. Especially you, Maya, who kept saying that the party was tomorrow. While that’s adorable at some point I kind of had to wonder if you’re just being hopeful or had no concept whatsoever as to how time works. Because every time I told you, no, it’s days later you’d say, “Right. That’s tomorrow.”
I forgave you because IMAGINE FIRE FIGHTERS MAKING HOT DOGS! IMAGINE FIRE FIGHTERS MAKING HOT DOGS!
Love,
Mommy
Mini Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Spiced Donut
This Halloween my seven-year-old son decided to dress like “himself” which required no costume, while my five-year-old daughter chose to be Minnie Mouse. So uncool of her, I know! But at least we only had to spend money on one costume this year.
Then people started to tell us that our son has grown up. And I was like, “Really? He’s just seven!” I still have a hard time articulating what I should feel about it. But considered that kids only wear their Halloween costumes once or twice a year, and costumes are not cheap, we were pretty happy about our son’s smart choice!
Perfect Cheesecake
It takes a bit of practice to manage to make a perfect cheesecake . I have experienced cracked surface, under-baked filling, soggy crust… My all-time failure is water bath. I just don’t seem to be able to get it done without ending with leaking. Extremely frustrating!
Skeleton Cake Pops
My two children share the same birthday month – October. So it’s become a ritual that every year when it’s close to their birthdays, I will come up with some Halloween treats for them to bring to school.
My 5-year-old daughter requested these girly monster cake pops. I made these for my son last year. And what I did this year was simply change the colours. My seven-year-old son specifically wanted skeleton cake pops. Something scary, something less childish. So here we go, “adult-ish” skeleton cake pops. Except it’s nothing “adult” about it. I would say these skeleton cake pops look cool. That’s all!