Come on in and join the party!
My oldest son Randy is turning thirteen tomorrow! My first teenager!
So, help yourself to a cupcake! (I made chocolate, because I think I’ll be needing the biochemical boost that it comes with!)
Basic Chocolate Ganache (see below), chilled at least 1 hour
Cinnamon Crème Anglaise (see below)
Vegetable oil spray for misting the pans
All-purpose flour for dusting the pans
1 package (18.25 ounces) plain devil’s food cake mix
1 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar, for dusting
And instead of happy birthday, how about we sing his favorite lullaby, the one he’s been hearing me sing since before he was born?
Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star
Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like, when you’re older, must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We’re captive on the carousel of time
We can’t return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town
And they tell him,
Take your time, it won’t be long now
Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We’re captive on the carousel of time
We can’t return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There’ll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We’re captive on the carousel of time
We can’t return, we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
-Joni Mitchell
And the chorus from an Amy Rigby song that says how I really feel about him:
Don’t ever change
Hey I love you, you’re perfect, don’t ever change
Don’t ever change
Happy birthday to Randy, and to anyone else with a recent or upcoming birthday! (And what do you think the google ads will have for us to click today?)