L Mackenzie

Making Mermaid Memories

Growing up, my mom always made us a special cake for our birthdays. It was a huge highlight of the year; she would either make a cut-out style cake of the numbers representing our age, or a themed cake customized from scratch just for us. While that was all we really did for birthdays, I still remember the excitement around the process. This was before the days of Pinterest, but even so the cakes were beautiful. They took patience, time, effort, care, and love. While my mom never crafted, I wonder if her influence helped to inspire the love of creating that I developed as I got older?