Thursday Night Stuff

Does anybody out there watch Top Chef? I am loving this show. If you know me, you know I love to cook and this is a great cooking competition. The language is pretty rough - the bleeping is a joke. The quick fire challenge is a great concept. If you stop and think about it, that's pretty much life a lot of days --- a quick fire challenge. I'll write more about that concept soon.

Speaking of cooking, Claire and I made her birthday cake tonight. It's all homemade --- a cold oven chocolate pound cake with chocolate fudge frosting. We cooked the entire cake together with her measuring and mixing it all. I want her to learn to cook as I did growing up. She says she wants me to teach her but when it's time to do it, she kind of backs down. (I understand that!) We had a good time doing it together and it looks great out of the oven. I have to do the icing myself tomorrow because the cake has to cool tonight.

The cake decorations? Elmo for my 15-year-old birthday girl. Yes, Elmo. That's what she wanted. Now take note: Daddy can make some killer cakes. But Daddy doesn't know how to decorate or make Elmo. So, we bought the old-fashioned candy cake decorations you buy at the store. Remember those? You have to peel them off the paper and pray they don't break. Reminds me of my birthday cakes as a kid. We would peel the letters off for our names and put them on the cake. It was always fun.

What's the spiritual point of all of this? Now come on --- does there ALWAYS have to be one just because I'm the pastor?????? (Capstoners know what I'm talking about!)

Hey Capstoners: iShare is coming. Get ready!

I'll let you know how Claire's birthday party goes --- six girls, dinner in Greenville, shopping at Haywood Mall, then overnight at the house. Yvonne and I will be tired on Saturday!!!