Scattered Thoughts . . .

Two weeks ago, Liza and the kids came to our house to celebrate Gee's birthday.  Yesterday, all the grandkids came to our house to celebrate birthdays for Lukey, Kenzie and Ellie. Gee started baking two dozen cupcakes first thing in the morning and by the time the kids arrived around noon Gee was about to frost the cupcakes... Kenzie is already picking out more new clothes from a catalog...   Ellie has an empty dollhouse at home so we gave her a dollhouse family of posable dolls as well as enough furniture to furnish her dollhouse... After all the gifts were opened, Lukey and I assembled his new train station.  Well, actually, Lukey did the assembling while I guided him along.  He received a Polar Express train set for Christmas so this new train station will fit in well with his Polar Express passenger train.  The Burlington F9 diesel locomotive is one of mine that we placed next to the new train station for Lukey to see the scale... After this little birthday celebration at our h

While we were driving back home after visiting The Christmas Loft, we were discussing dinner and dessert with Lukey and Kenzie. We had decided on dinner options and then asked Kenzie if she wanted to make cupcakes for dessert... she immediately asked, "For real?"  Gee assured her that they would be making  real cupcakes... and reassured her after every followup question about whether we were talking about real cupcakes or imaginary, over and over, until we had all the ingredients in our shopping cart at Hannaford's. Kenzie did a great job and the cupcakes were the best we've had in a very long while!  Very moist chocolate fudge cake with a butter cream frosting... Now I want another cupcake!