Homemade bread and a box cake....

I am baking a box cake right now.  Lemon.  It smells so good!  And I've got homemade bread rsing on the stove.  See.  My kitchen is cold.  I had to turn the oven on to warm up the kitchen to make the bread rise.  Then I thought, why waste the energy?  So I'm making a cake!  Pretty proud of my myself.  hee hee

That daughter of mine......

She made me cry again. She catches me off guard. Her birthday was last week. She turned 9. She came to me crying a little this weekend. I asked her why. She said that she had been checking the mailbox every day since her birthday. But she had only gotten 3 birthday cards. She said she was afraid that no one loved her as much as Shawn because he got a bunch of cards on his birthday. And then she started sobbing and fell into my lap. What do you tell a baby when she puts that together? I wonder what was so busy with my family that they couldn't send her a card when they sent one to Shawn? Is he just that much more of a charmer than her? I love her. But she made me cry again.