Duck, Duck, Goose

Today was bake, slime, sort - kinda like duck, duck, goose for grandkids.

It’s Strawberry Season! and we live adjacent to the strawberry growing capital of the world (we saw strawberries from Oxnard when we were in Paris and London) so Leo and I decided to make angel food cake - her first time - while Pop made a run for berries. (And Jac sulked because she had to be off her phone for an hour. Grandma is so mean…)

Everything went well until we took the cake from the oven, inverted it so it could cool for 3 hours…. and within a couple of minutes it fell right out of the pan. 

I’ve never had that happen before and I’m not sure why it did this time (maybe it wasn’t cooked all the way thru and was too heavy? Any other ideas? Same recipe, same pan I’ve used for years…)

A deliciously epic fail. It didn’t stop the littles (and the grownups) from nibbling away at the edges before it was even cool. (Turns out I prefer the heavier, collapsed version to the original, so as Teena said, ‘hey, new recipe’!)

Then Leo helped Jac make squishy shaving cream slime, which Pop may not appreciate come shaving time tomorrow… Jac almost lost it again when I didn’t have the right colors of food coloring but Leo saved the day by mixing in some acrylic paint. Not something I would have thought of but it worked! 

Happy Jac (cake + strawberries + slime = happiness for 8 year old’s) helped me sort another row of fabric bins. 

Two more stuffed boxes are ready to donate and 5-ish more bins are empty. Making progress!