My husband surprised me the other day.  I was having a ROUGH day, and he had something he had been keeping at his office for months, saving it for our wedding anniversary in December, so he decided I needed it early.  He is the best present giver ever (seriously, a talent of his), and he picked out this gift because he read my blog.  Husband’s read blogs?  Who knew?  He saw my post on cake plates, went to the website where this gorgeous blue piece was being sold, and bought it for me.  I was blown away.  I almost cried when I opened the box.  Not because it is so pretty, but because my husband is so incredibly thoughtful.  It looks even more beautiful than it does on the internet when it is on display in my kitchen. 

Love my husband.  Don’t know what I would do without him. 

And I’ve been thinking… I may need to use this husband-reading-my-blog-thing to my advantage more often…

If you have known me for a few years, you know that deep inside me I have a passion for baking.  I say “if you’ve known me for a few years” because I really haven’t done a whole lot of it lately.  Maybe its because when you have 3 kids and they just keep getting older, you don’t have a lot of free time for baking (though our youngest wants to be a chef and I have SO much fun creating in the kitchen with him!!).  Maybe its partly because when you move, you don’t have a lot of people to bake for right away, so in order to keep from gaining 25 pounds, I haven’t baked a lot just for us.  But I did make a cool rainbow cake for our daughter’s summer birthday.  And at Christmastime, I am a baking fool.

My dear friend who recently moved to be a missionary in Colombia has collected gorgeous cake plates.  I have always adored cake plates, but it didn’t cross my mind to collect them!  They were displayed in her kitchen, and I would admire them when I went to visit.  When she announced that they were selling many of their household items, I immediately asked if that included her cake plates and I asked if she would make sure I could buy at least one because they were so lovely and because I would think of her everytime I looked at it.  The rainbow cake was on the one she picked out for me .  Now I keep my eye out for pretty, unique cake plates, and I ran across this one today…

and am in love.  I sometimes visit Bakerella’s blog, because she is amazing (I am seriously thinking about tackling some cake pops for middle man’s birthday this month!), and I saw the plate in the post where she was talking about a cake she made.  The cake looked scrumptious, but I was drooling over the plate (which you can buy here if you are smitten, too)!  As I scrolled down, I saw that she GAVE ONE AWAY and I missed it!!!  Stink.  Maybe one will magically appear under my Christmas tree, or it would definitely make a lovely 19th wedding anniversary gift, don’t you think?