One Birthday Tradition
I chose one thing. One birthday tradition we all enjoy. Today it pulls me from bed before the sun. Usually I create at night after the children plod to their beds, but last night I fell asleep in the arms of my husband. He came home just in time. His vow true.
Today a beautiful little girl turns six, so I measure and stir and pour in the quiet to make a cake chosen weeks ago.
Sunshine flipped through a well-worn magazine Grandma found at a yard sale, a whole book of cakes cut from simple shapes. The page with an artist palette was marked not only in the book, but in my memory. I had the same cake as a little girl!
Baked butter and sugar fill my nostrils before cake falls out of the pan to cool. Boxes piled high in every room and the moving truck comes tomorrow, but here in this moment I pause from the busyness to create.
This one expectation is of my own making and I am happy to fulfill it. Packing will wait.
It doesn’t take twenty-one traditions to make a birthday or a holiday special. Those lists tend to grow each year.
One homemade cake will be all the decoration and party we need. It will bring the smiles, imprint a memory, and connect our family for generations.
What is your favorite way to celebrate birthdays? Are you simplifying holiday to do lists this year?
That’s a great cake!! Glad you finally get to be with your hubby!
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Happy Birthday Emma!
That’s great cake! So glad your husband came home!
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Yummy cake and happy birthday to the fine young lady!!
I would love to simplify holiday lists but hubby’s family alternates Christmas and it is our year so it is hard to be simple when 50+ folks are coming for dinner. :)
So, happy that hubby made it home safely and prayers for a smooth move.
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How beautiful!
We gave up on birthday parties long ago, and our tradition has become allowing the birthday child to mak muffins on the morning of his or her birthday and then choose a special outing and meal (eaten in or out). Last year, I forget which child it was, but *someone* chose eating out at Applebee’s and then going through the automatic car wash!!!
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How fabulous! Everything is just…perfect. Happiest of birthdays and here’s to a fresh start at your heart’s home.
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What a great cake, Renae! And lovely thoughts. Not too traditional around here. I’d like to be, but it just doesn’t work out that way.
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Wow! What a cake! Blessings to your family and special days.
That is a beautiful cake! We also have very simple birthday traditions.
The cake is really cute!
I also read the previous post about your new home! Praying it feels like home very, very soon!
May God supply your every need – He is so good and faithful!
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I love the birthday cake! Such a great idea for an artistic child!
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