Happy Birthday dear GG

I am so happy!

I guess I better back up and do some "real" sharing. I have a large and close family, and my cousin lives on the same piece of property that we do. That makes for lots of time watching each others kids grow. Being around at a drop of a hat if you need anything. The best of neighbors. A few years back my cousin and his wife divorced, it was not nice. All visitation stopped immanently. It has been so pain full.

I saw those little girls almost daily. Watched them constantly. I had a play room for them. complete setup for little people.

(My kids are 10 years older so not the same development level as they are)

My nephew is 9 days younger so I referred to Dom and GG as the twins.

Made their 1st birthday cakes.

You get the idea, they were (are) two of "my" kids.

The divorce happened. All contact stopped. Nothing. It broke my families heart.

Then a blessing happened

My Aunt (their Grandmother) was granted a 3 hour visitation each month.

It was given by the courts so it can't be taken away!

The first one is this Sat.

We are not aloud to be there, it was only for her.

(To make it less traumatic for them)

But I don't care, She get to see them. And 3 days after the older ones Birthday.

So I asked if I could bake a cake.

Decided that a whole cake for 3 was over kill.

So today I lovingly made cupcakes.

I poured all the love that I could into them.

They are not perfect, but every detail was made with love and

they will know how much their Aunt MeMe loves them.

So today I went shopping for inspiration and came up with...

Cherry chocolate cake with a cherry chocolate mouse filling.

Whipped cream cherry frosting

and white chocolate cherry rose on top.

My mom thought she had lost the kitchen to cupcake wars!

But I think the mess was worth it.