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Miss M Kayaking

Jedi N Kayaking

Sunset on Round Lake

Mmmm Ice Cream!

National Gallery of Canada

Rainy Day Art with a view of Parliament Hill

Climbing the stairs behind Parliament Hill

Yummy Burgers!

N tubing with his cousin

Fun at the Neighbourhood Park

Hope you are all having as much fun this summer as we are!

Last week was a busy one around here.  Not only did we have the usual extra curricular activities to attend (soccer, ballet, school assembly, recital etc.) but I had my very first big, non-family, cupcake order to complete and we said goodbye to my son’s best friend and his family.

In fact the cupcake order and the goodbye were related.  Just before Christmas last year, my friend S told me there was a possibility that their family would be moving to Holland, if an opportunity for her husband panned out.  Well as luck would have it for them, it did and takes them away from Ottawa for a year!!

Fast forward to a few months ago, and my friend asked me if I could come up with a Holland themed cupcake. She wanted to have a little goodbye party in each of her son’s classes at school and thought it would be great if the cupcake somehow reflected the country they would be temporary residents of.  Well the parties were last Friday, so I spent my week making chocolate tulips, to go on top of 4 dozen cupcakes.

4 Dozen cupcakes waiting to be decorated

Chocolated, molded tulips

Finished product

Needless to say the cupcakes were a big hit (who doesn’t like cake!!). DD and I attended the goodbye party in my son’s class (she’s going to miss Z as much as my son) and were treated to not only cupcakes, but a short video as well. My son’s teacher is brilliant and found an age appropriate video on Holland, so the kids could familiarize themselves with the country their classmate would be calling home for a year.

So now the parties are over, the goodbyes have been said and Z and his family have arrived safely in Holland to begin their new adventure.  Meanwhile my son and I are learning to adjust without our friends and are thankful that technology will keep them close, even though they are so far away. Oh and we are counting down the months until their return

Heat or no heat the job must get done.  Chocolate tulips for a job I am delivering Friday morning.  Stay tuned for the finished product.

Chocolate Molded Tulips