A Birthday Cupcake Recipe
Hello.
Well, first you have to go to the grocery store and you have to hold hands. It’s a dangerous world out there and you all know that I am only four years old. And was it ever hot. Good thing I had my fan.
You don’t have to buy flour and chocolate blocks if you like the mixing kind of cake and Grammie does and I do too so we got that instead. Well, not really instead because that’s what we always get.
And we got flowers. Four kinds. For gramps’s birthday tomorrow. And I picked-did them all out with a balloon. They are so beautiful you wouldn’t believe it. I knew right away this is what I wanted to get because this is what I wanted to get for grammie’s birthday which we had at the hospital at a surprise party in April that mummy organized.
And grammie got a card for gramps but I’m making one in the morning before lunch and the museum because homemade cards are better which you would think grammie ought to know because I homemade her a mother’s day card and she said that this was the best card in the world ever.
So. The cupcakes. We boughted the things at the grocery store and went home and I got to do so much more than the last time we made them. For one example I got to put in the chocolate mix and the oil and the water. Grammie put in the eggs because she said you could get sammon—sammon—sammon oh I don’t know but it was something fishy and didn’t sound good.
And we bought me a new outfit and matching shoes – grammie has a thing about buying me shoes maybe because her feet are too big for most of them – but I can’t say what they’re like because it’s a surprise for the birthday and gramps reads this blog.
After we cook-did the cupcakes grammie and I each took two bowls that grammie put icing in and I choose-did the pink and the yellow and opened the bottles all by myself and stirred and stirred and the colours are so beautiful you wouldn’t believe it and in the morning we are going to ice the cupcakes. They are going to be so beautiful.
And all day I wore a special baseball hat that mummy use to wore at work and a beautiful ring that she told grammie to bring to Toronto and let me wear special. And grammie painted my nails blue. There were no sparklies like Julie gives me but grammie said that next time I am here she will have some for me. And we saw Jenny and I got a present from Mary Tea and we talked to Mike and Stephan on the porch and when I told grammie today that men living with men was disgusting grammie told me why I was wrong to say or even think that and then after I talked with Mike and Stephan I knew that grammie was right. It’s only about who you love and I love everybody.
Grammie reminded me that mummy was with me everywhere and so when I was in the kitchen making cupcakes I said, “Even here, grammie?” and grammie said, “Yes darling, even here,” and I said, “That means the cupcakes will be perfect.” And you know it’s true because the last time grammie made these special ones in the blue and green holders it was mummy’s birthday and I was here that time too and we ate them ALL. They were so beautiful.
Grammie says I am beautiful and that I look just like my mum and I know that’s true. Grammie says good looks run in our family and I said so do noses and grammie said that I have to credit my sources so it’s from a book that a man wrote about raising children but that’s all I know.
Anyway, we did other things today too but that’s the gist of it and mostly I wanted to tell you two things – how to make cupcakes in the kitchen with grammie and HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRAMPS! I love you one hundred googleblacks. And you are a girl who lives with a girl, and I love everybody.
