Four years ago today, I had a piece of chocolate cake as comfort, as consolation. Today I baked a cake as celebration. Today I celebrate the inauguration of the 46th president and of the first woman vice president, and I celebrate the return of cautious optimism and hope.
The cake is also for my dad. Today is his birthday. He would have been 77 this year, and I think it’s the first year since he died that we aren’t having a big family dinner with Mexican food and margaritas in his honor.
And the cake is for Jack too, whose birthday was yesterday and is 7 now. (So many 7s! Must be lucky!) He won’t get cake but he got a little bit of pumpkin mixed into his dinner last night, so he was happy.
Happy Wednesday, friends.
bonnyknits 
Happy birthday to Jack, and your dad 🙂 and congratulations on getting a decent human being for a president! Even over here we breathed a huge sigh of relief that the orange idiot is gone, so it must be even more intense for you. Yay for progress in the right direction again!
Thank you! It is nice to have a good people in the highest office again!
I love Jack!
Happy Wednesday indeed.
Happiest of birthdays to all of your special people 🎈. Things do seem like they’re looking up a bit, no?
Happy Wednesday and happy birthday to Jack and your Dad! 🙂
Happy Wednesday! ❤️ Now I want chocolate cake.
Happy birthdays! And yesterday was a good day. It was so inspiring to see Vice President Harris (I love being able to say that!) break so many barriers in one moment.
The cake was a great idea. I didn’t think to bake a cake, but fortunately I had cookies.
Cookies are great too! Yes, I so hope this means that young girls today can grow up thinking women in higher offices are no big deal, that of course they should be there!
I so hope so! It’s way past time for that.
Happy birthday to Jack and to your dad 🙂
Wednesday was such a wonderful day. It’s nice to have a little optimism finally!