You are so right! Lets all be thankful for what we have. Good friends and family and love! I love the cake idea. I have been craving chocolate cake forever. Chocolate molten lava cake. Have a great Christmas Eve. Hope work goes by fast for us.
2009年12月24日 会员：: chattycathy1955
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Your journal captures the true spirit of gift giving wherein one is excited to see his friends and family receive the gifts! God bless you and yours! My guys will eat Sara Lee's pound cake -- out of the store bought tin foil container. They soak it in milk and coffee. They usually gobble it up without my touching it!
2009年12月24日 会员：: poet-in-motion
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Ooooh Poet ... love Sara Lee's pound cake!!!
2009年12月24日 会员：: madaboutmoose
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I'm sure you've already gotten everything, but maybe for next time - make a cream cheese frosting!!! Its so easy, and SO YUMMY! Its just cream cheese, butter, confectioners sugar and vanilla extract (or any flavor extract you want really). I make that rather than using store bought stuff every time because the stuff in the can is to sweet for me. Anyway, have a great time!!!
2009年12月24日 会员：: MomofTwoGirls
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Thanks Sara!!! That's a great idea!! I had not thought about that!! I still have to make a quick dash to the market and I can definitely pick up some cream cheese!! Maybe I'll do the layers in chocolate!! Thanks!!!
2009年12月24日 会员：: madaboutmoose
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Your excitement is contagious! And your patchwork cake sounds like a work of art! I'm betting it will be a big hit. Enjoy your celebrations my friend - you are one of those special people who seem to have the "Christmas spirit" of giving EVERY day! (((((hugs))))) thank you!
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Stocking stuffers are wrapped!!! Time to dash out to the market before the crowds get there!!
2009年12月24日 会员：: madaboutmoose
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Love your #5. How right you are! Bravo! Your bright spirit truly is something I am grateful for and I am so blessed to be able to share the journey with you. Hoping you have a wonderful holiday and that you enjoy every single moment!
2009年12月24日 会员：: dawn0001
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oh darn, I've missed you. Careful w/ the crownds. btw, you have lost your mind! but making a cake would be a tad more rewarding... Good luck! btw, I have lost mine too... I am making Paula Deens Gooey Butter Cake, eeeeeek. I love your #1 on your list, you are truley lucky to have that view this time of year. Merry Christmas Moose!
2009年12月24日 会员：: cindyshine
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Carol, you made me laugh out loud. Thank you for that story about the 3 cakes and how you decided to do it all. Now do the same thing with the frosting. One layer chocolate and one layer white and so on. Oh, do butter cream for the white. Just a thought. lol You are sooooo in the Christmas spirit, it rubbed off on me. Have a wonderful time with your family. ((hugs))
2009年12月24日 会员：: WECANDOTHIS
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You didn't miss me Cindy!!! I'm still here!!! And yes, I have most definitely lost my mind ... what little of it was still intact!! Merry Christmas to you too ... can't wait for those tamales tonight!!
2009年12月24日 会员：: madaboutmoose
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mmm...i just had some for breakfast!
2009年12月24日 会员：: cindyshine
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Okay ... last minute groceries ... things I had forgotten or didn't buy enough of ... is DONE!!! I have decided I am much too impressionable. Someone here ... I think it was chattycathy ... mentioned Bailey's and so I had to go and buy some it just sounded so good!!! I forgot to tell you all about my strategy for avoiding chips and dips ... a holiday tradition in my family. I bought a bunch of veggies I'm going to cut up and some low fat ranch dip and that's what we'll snack on. The boys can still have chips if they want, we have them at home, but I wanted something different. Must be the Christmas for "different" for me this year ... wonder what that is all about?
2009年12月24日 会员：: madaboutmoose
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Ah ... the veggies are cut for dipping, the macaroni salad has been stirred and tended to, the cake ... might I say is beautiful ... is frosted, the Christmas tablecloth on the dining room table, husband napping, and me waiting for my grown up son to arrive so I can steam the tamales!! Thanks for the frosting hints ... I went with chocolate buttercream between the layers and cream cheese frosting on the outside!! Put it on the cake platter my mom and dad received as a wedding gift 52 years ago!!! Oh yea ... I way overdid the stocking stuffer concept ... everyone has an overflow pile!! LOL!!
2009年12月24日 会员：: madaboutmoose
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you are so excited! I thank you for this, it feels like I'm there with you making this crazy cake! Have a wonderful Chritmas Eve!
2009年12月24日 会员：: jessyline
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I feel all warm inside, sharing your holiday joy. Thank you so much!
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Merry Christmas Moose! :-)
2009年12月25日 会员：: information
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2009年12月25日 会员：: jessyline
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