This is really a busy week. My inlaws are here and the Angel is turning three.

I started planning, thinking, marinating, baking on Sunday night, fell asleep and woke up at 6am on Monday to carry on with the preparation.

My parents-in-law arrived on Monday morning and I arranged a little people’s party for the Angel and her friend, L.

I single-handedly prepared all the party food and baked a cake for the Angel which she can have! Last year, I remember how hard the group from Honeypot House came to our house to try to bake a cake sans wheat, sans eggs, sans milk! The cake was exactly what we had wanted it to be - a rabbit - but the taste was weird when we mixed them with all that soya flour, rice flour, and all kinds of flour to make it work! I had such a wonderful team of people helping me last year (I didn’t do much of the baking really) but this year, I’m completely on my own!

I tried baking a cake last month for a boy’s birthday and the Angel could have it. It really was a simple attempt but on Monday, I baked a blackforest lookalike cake for the little party. I quite like the overall effect after all that effort. I realise it is really fun baking your own child’s birthday and you can customised it to what your child likes.

Thanks to the Pilgrim Parent, I borrowed the memory game idea, but modified it to an ‘everybody wins spirit’. While each child took turns, both reaped the rewards when each could recall what was beneath the cloth. Such fun when they had such a ‘loot’ in their ’shopping bag’ which they have earned!

One of the greatest laugh we had at the party was when the Angel and her guest discussed about the conditions of their hands as a conversation topic, they both suffer from pretty acute eczema. At almost three, these two girls sure have very serious topics to share! It was such a laugh!

Now, at 4am in the morning, I have better get my skates on to prepare for the big party later on.

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