What do the items in the title of this post have in common? They all are things I did this weekend. I celebrated my birthday this weekend in a quiet way with my family. Birthdays aren’t as exciting as they were when I was a child, but I am grateful for each one I get to celebrate. I cherish each moment I get to spend with my family-both the good times and the challenging times.
Speaking of challenges, I have really been experimenting with recipes my son will be able to eat. This led me to make my own birthday cake. I used the recipes I found here for the cake and the icing. For the shortening I used coconut oil, and for the cake flour I used a mixture of flours. I can’t seem to remember where I found this recipe, but the ingredients were 1 cup each of rice flour, tapioca flour, and cornstarch and 1 tablespoon of potato flour. I also added 3/4 tsp. of xanthum gum because of some things I read about it being good for gluten free-flour. My son ate a piece and seemed to like it, so that was the main thing.
Friday night we had a dinner and movie family night at our church. We saw the movie Fireproof. I loved the movie. It had such a powerful message. If you haven’t seen it I would definitely encourage you to do so.
Finally, I was able to do a little sewing Saturday while the baby napped. I made the fabric box pictured above from the tutorial I found here. This box was fairly quick to put together, and I think it is a cute size. Something that helped me was to make a template based on the dimensions given in the tutorial, and use my rotary cutter to cut the fabric. I am already in the process of cutting out more of these from fabrics in my stash.
