Three layers of vanilla sponge with strawberry jam and a lot of strawberry buttercream flavored with jam and powdered organic freeze-dried strawberries!

She liked the cake, though she was not expecting pink frosting—and to think how hard I worked to make it both pink and tasting of strawberries! (I cropped her from the photo to preserve her privacy, but my granddaughters, both of them as well as my grandson, are delightful!) She likes the white chocolate 8s best, I think. It was a flying visit, and we were pleased to see family.

This morning I have 17k words for NaNo, though I wrote barely 200 words on the birthday.