Snapshots of My Life 2

Sunday and yesterday I baked a Lemon Mousse Cake

from Victoria Magazine

March/April 2008

This is one of the best cakes you will ever taste.

There are three layers with lemon mousse between each layer and

as a base crumb coating for the frosting.

It calls for a lot of fresh squeezed lemon juice which takes a little while to

do but it makes your house smell like lemonade.

Lemon zest is added to the batter, too.

Lemon curd is piped onto the top after the frosting is applied.

Then you also pipe on more frosting

for decoration.

Finished cake
but, the reason why I did this
is. . .

To celebrate LIFE

I took this to my husband

to share with his employees.

I also set up a blog for him.

That will be fun to see!

Just because. . .

But, do you see the mirror music box above?

When my littlest grand daughter was a little baby

I used to swing her toward the mirror while the music box played

while she laughed out loud.

When she got a little older she would turn the wind-up knob

to hear the song. . . There Is A Season. . .

Turn  Turn Turn

Here I am a grandmother.

I miss my family so very much.

I have been thinking about

how short life is

how fast each day goes by

how important it is to leave something

good behind

The memories we leave behind of the life we lived

That is all there really is. . .

When people think of me 

I want it to be to remember how funny I am

funny. . .silly. . . is more like it

and how  much I cared about them.

How much I love nature

How I stuck my finger in the back of the clothes dryer(while it was still running) 

trying to fix it and cut the end of my finger off

how much I love working with children. . .

you know, things like this.

What about you?

What do you want to be remembered?