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Cheery Cherry Chocolate

2/7/2016

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"If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same."
  ~~John Oates
It's been 45 years since I made this cake the first time. I have pictures of Chad blowing out the candles all the way from his first birthday while he was sitting in a high chair surrounded by his brother and their little friends. The other kids blew out the candles for him.

Today is Chad's 45th birthday, and I needed to make it for him again. There have been some birthdays that I missed. He was away to college or busy with fatherhood. Or work.  Or life.  But until he was 18, he got this every year.

This year he asked me what started it and I remembered I had seen the recipe in the February 1972 issue of Parent's Magazine for February birthdays and I still had the original recipe in my recipe box. (I haven't converted them to digital, yet.)

So with this post, Happy Birthday, Chad!
~Nancy ~ 2.7.2016
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*Note: I've always made my own icing and this year it was a cream cheese frosting.
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Old Friend

1/26/2016

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"The only things I own which are still worth what they have cost me are my travel memories… the mind pictures of places which I have been hoarding like a happy miser."
  ~~Burton Holmes
Another country walk found the final resting place of old memories on an old homestead...
~Nancy ~ 1.26.2016
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Ashton

1/21/2016

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"Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation."
  ~~Lois Wyse
Ashton works hard and she plays hard.
"Team Player" personifies her spirit.
She always makes me smile...
~Nancy ~ 1.21.2016
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Unlocked

1/9/2016

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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
  ~~Winston Churchill
We wrestled this old trunk down from the attic the day before Halloween.
It belonged to Tom's grandfather, and Tom told me it was time to let it go.
We got it as far as the front porch where it has been sitting next to the front door.
When the "trick-or-treaters" knocked on the door, they would slowly and carefully touch it,
expecting something to jump out at them.
With the holidays, I forgot about it and it became part of the scenery.
Now the new year is here.
One last picture on a rainy day before we find a home for it...
~Nancy ~ 1.9.2016
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Old Car

1/8/2016

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"I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars."
  ~~Peta Wilson
I missed the sun today. Tom and I took a walk through some of the old side streets in town.
We came across this old gem. It seemed to fit the day...
~Nancy ~ 1.8.2016
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