gallery of my creativity...

Once a year, for Sam's birthday, I get creative. He gets to request the cake, and I get to make it (generally with his and Steve's input). And then we eat it!

2005: Pirate theme. This was my first attempt at a 3-D cake, and it came out pretty well. Steve did the sails and the anchor (licorice, of course), and I really like the malt-ball cannonballs.

2004: When birthday cakes go bad... Sam wanted a "rotting cake". I don't have a picture of it eaten, but everyone wanted one of the icing eyeballs.

2003: Spongebob... He's a little 2 dimensional, but cute. And tasty...

October already???

Man, time flies when you are busy. Or having fun. Or something.

We had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner last night, with a good mix of friends, and even a couple of other Canadians there. I like Canadian thanksgiving - it's cool enough out to enjoy a nice, heavy meal; and far enough away from Christmas that I should be able to convince Steve to do it all over again in a month and a half. And I promise to get the cleaning woman to come back again next time and do all of the dirty work - I'm so spoiled...

We went to a party on Sunday, and brought Sam... One of my friends (a blog-reader...) commented on his ghost story. It's possible that I forgot to ask his permission to put that here - but I think he was pleased. At least people have something interesting to read, he says.

He's trying out for the cross-country team at school, which is a huge thing - as he is completely my son and has expressed not interest in any sport, at all, ever. In fact, yesterday, when he came home and told us about the tryout (a 1.5 km run!), he suspiciously asked - is cross-country actually a sport? Uhhh.... What's the RIGHT answer to that question, if I want him to continue?