There’s something in the water at our church. A sweet baby girl was born to our friends, the Cawoods, this afternoon at the very time of a baby shower given in honor of another couple from church, Megan and Brian. At the shower alone were two more pregnant ladies. Aaahhh….we are blessed. While I adore infants (not so a decade ago, but only after having three of my own), I generally find baby showers cumbersome from all the silly games involving baby food, diaper changing, and word scrambles. Today’s shower was more my speed: lovely food, lovely people, lots of gifts, period. My friend, Leslie (who is NOT yet with child), did a wonderful job hosting her first baby shower. I was blessed to see our church gals come alongside Megan (who is from further East) as her family and community. That’s how it should be.
Megan is a bibliophile and requested children’s storybooks as part of her shower. Here is the cake I fashioned for this special occasion. It was a chocolate cake with bavarian cream filling, iced with white chocolate ganache frosting.
Seeing how expensive it can be to purchase a fashionable nursing cover-up, I stitched one for her, along with a matching changing pad with one of my favorites from the stash: a vintage polka-dot on satiny cotton.
On a side note, I am down to the last four letters of the ABC’s and am finally losing steam…does anyone have good No-Regrets suggestions for W, X, Y, and Z?
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There must be something in the air or may be nothing on TV … There has been a rise in pregnant women this year I was reading the other day. That is one beautiful cake your a very talented person to be able to create something so beautiful .. great work
My favorite “X” word…
Adjective: xenial
Pertaining to hospitality or relations with friendly visitors.
The cake you made was beautiful, I love the two page story. How creative!
Beautiful cake for such a joyous occasion!
That is adorable!
w- worry
x- xylophone. because CLEARLY there is plenty to blog about xylophones.
y- yelling. which is what i have done to my daughter all day.
z- all i can think of is zebra. and i don’t know how to tie that in. but knowing you, you would think of something.