june was a blur. the end of school for all three kids. anna at summer camp. some cakes. lots of work shifts. some sewing. play dates. still the gym. and getting ready to be gone for most of july. here’s what happened, according to the photos i took. (some other stuff probably happened, but i […]
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uno graduation cake.
after that super stressful wedding cake, i swore i wasn’t going to make another cake anytime soon. then. i was hanging out with my old college roommate/teammate/friend and she asked if i would make a graduation cake for her youngest daughter and her friend, and of course i said yes. it was a MASSIVE sheet […]
may of twenty twenty three.
may has come and gone, so here’s the monthly update of happenings in lidkid land that don’t require a full blog post. here we go. (warning. this one is all over the place and weird and maybe boring). first of all. derek has continued to work on our deck, when the weather and his time […]
hazel’s first field day.
the crazelnut has had a pretty great first year at vienna elementary. we had always heard fantastic things about the school and it definitely lived up to the reputation. as the year was winding down, folks started talking up the big field day, aka: the pfafftown olympics. having been to a few field days back […]
cakes to celebrate marriages. old and new.
i don’t know what i was thinking, but when an old friend from my teaching days reached out to see if i would be interested in making a wedding cake for her daughter, i agreed to take on the challenge. it didn’t seem too complicated and they are super laid back, so it didn’t seem […]
the annababy is an anna-teen.
well. i have two teenagers now. it feels impossible. it seems like it was just a few years ago that my days were filled with babies and toddlers, bottles and tiny chopped up food, diapers and pacifiers, stackable blocks and plastic light up toys. but alas. here we are. anna is thirteen. i’ve already posted […]
a ridiculously long post about april ’23.
well. you would think a post about april would be super short, considering we spent the first week on spring break, and all of that was detailed in previous posts. but, alas, sometimes when there’s not much excitement going on, these miscellaneous monthly posts get a lot more attention. or so it is in this […]
an all natural gender reveal(and some unicorn cupcakes)
when some friends of ours found out they were having a second baby and asked if i would make the gender reveal cake, i jumped at the chance. they were just having a little zoom/facetime reveal with family, so it was just going to be a six inch cake for them and their toddler, the […]
spring break 2023…
for spring break this year, we packed up and headed to an airbnb, in the wilderness of the nantahala national forest, on the tippy western end of north carolina. as the children grow, so does the volume of our “luggage” (reusable shopping bags, mostly), making packing the back of the subaru feel like the most […]
jude’s 49+1 cake.
this will be my shortest post in YEARS.my friend jude is 50. i will refrain from commentary about how it seems impossible that my peers are turning such ages. her husband asked if i could make a cake. it was a tight squeeze, because we were leaving for a spring break trip the next day. […]