Well, my mother-in-law celebrated her 70th birthday this month. Now, darn it. Why does that make me feel old? Okay, okay, I won’t go there again. Back to the birthday.

The entire family gathered at a local ‘fish camp’ to enjoy seafood and fried catfish in honor of Granny Sue. I think  catfish may be a ’southern’ delicacy (for those of you who may have never heard of this delicious treat). And the fish camp is not really a camp, more like a very casual restaurant. You know; shorts, blue jeans and flip flops.

Plenty of fresh cole slaw, sweet iced tea, hush puppies and french fries to go around. All you can eat, as a matter of fact, in true southern style. Enough good food to just simply make you eat more than you should until you are miserable. But the biggest treat was the delectable cake made by our local  and famous recipe queen, Lorie.

Alas, this cake is not one of Lorie’s contest winning recipes, but one of her recipe-contest-winning pal’s. Lorie did a superb job on this cake and if you need a simply wonderful new dessert for an extra special occasion, well just click here and print. Chocolate Toffee Caramel Crunch Cake with Peanut Butter Meringue Frosting. It is a true delight!

While everyone else was enjoying the eating-too-much-fest, I was at home on the couch with a strained back muscle. But my sweet family delivered a to-go plate to me along with a nice size slice of that birthday cake. Yummmmmy!

Oooh, and look! The cake matches our new blog look! Thanks to J or J for the great change! It is much easier to read than our previous look.

Also got some clothes for Stephen… on sale, of course. I’m working on my fall wordrobe. I’ve been consigning a lot of things recently and have just been using my credit from that. It feels like free clothes! haha! I love the disturbing ability to rationalize the cost of clothes, purses and shoes.

Aiden is trying his hardest to walk! Without hesitation, he will let go of whatever he is holding, turn around and take a few steps… then fall down and smile because he’s proud of himself! It is so cute.

This is not the blog I had planned and been working on. The other needs a lot of thought and time to be well formed and as unoffensive as I can make it. I hope to get some more work done on it soon.