A sentimental fool with cake.

I was catching up on one of my favorite blogs Rosie little things, and became awash in sentimentality, seeing all the tiny, beautiful details prepared for a little girl's 2nd birthday party, made my heart hurt. 

I think of all of the lovely, homely things I made for my children before they became giants, yearning for plastic objects and cold hard cash. 

All the knit animals and felted crowns and pirate vests and fairy skirts and grand capes and embroidered pillowslips, and fanciful Halloween costumes free of zombies and ghouls.

And cake. 

Cake and cake and cake.