When Daniel and I were children, he used to decorate her birthday cakes with crooked blue stars. She never fixed them. Plana Birthday
“Leave them, dear. That’s the good part.”
So when Daniel’s fiancée, Ashley, asked Grandma to make a four-tier wedding cake decorated with handmade sugar flowers, she was thrilled.
Ashley had complained that professional bakeries charged over $1,000.
“I’ll pay for the ingredients and your time, of course,” she promised during Sunday lunch.
I heard that promise myself.
Grandma lived on a small pension, yet she purchased all the supplies and spent three days baking and decorating the cake.
When I visited, handmade sugar flowers covered her kitchen table.
She rubbed her aching wrist before lifting a delicate rose to show me.
