It looks like this and I haven't even started the cake part yet!
Do ever notice how when we wish for things we don’t really ever picture them quite the way they turn out? When I was a child all I ever wanted to be was a grandma…. I thought my grandma’s were the most wonderful people on earth. Happy all the time, there to provide all kinds of fun and special projects to do, yes even as a child I loved craft projects and baking. I learned at age five how to bake pies with my great-grandmother, the best pie maker in Clay County, Indiana! I wanted to learn when I was four years old, she told me I wasn’t old enough and that I had to wait until the following year…. she probably figured HOPED I would forget, but there I was a year later, ready to go! My other grandma’s were wonderful too, putting on tea parties for me and my sister and letting us watch TV in bed…. What does all this have to do with being careful what you wish for? Well now I’m a grandma…. and when I pictured being a grandma, one of the things I dreamed of was baking cakes for all the birthday parties. What I didn’t picture was that the birthday’s would land at my busiest time of the year. I didn’t picture finishing up a big show and booking myself to teach extra Living Social classes, throwing in a couple of appointments, and having a tension head-ache that lasted the entire week. I didn’t picture dumping the display stuff in the living room and leaving it there all week-long. And I didn’t picture the big, fat mess that’s about to get even worse in the kitchen…. Nope, I thought it was going to be like going to grandma’s house…all fun and happy times…. But you know what? It is still a dream come true…. my grandson won’t know that making his cake wasn’t the only thing on my to-do list, he will remember that I loved making him a Batman cake for his birthday because he is turning 5 years old and he’s a great kid! Perhaps some day he will look back and understand that it wasn’t all fun and games for this grandma, and perhaps like me, he will appreciate it all the more! I guess the key to wishing and dreaming for me is to just go for it…. reality might try to steal a dream but only if I let it…..
The bat cave in progress.... backdrop painted with food coloring!
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